Veils of crepe or nun's veiling are not worn over the face except at the funeral.
Hats with crepe folds and trimmings, with veils arranged to fall in folds in the back are usually selected; with them is worn a plain net face veil.
When veils are washed at home they usually come out quite limber and flimsy.
If used at all, it is in the form of hems or narrow bands on face veils and as borders or facings, on gowns.
The valley filled with a palely shimmering radiance which dropped like veils upon it, hiding all within it.
Her veils had slipped from her, baring her neck, her arms, the right shoulder.
The illumination came, I thought, from the encircling veils falling from the band of amethyst.
Where the veils had stretched between the perpendicular pillars of the cliffs was now a wide and ragged-edged opening.
At her brother's cry she turned and her arm flashed out of theveils with reassuring gesture.
From zone and veils the gaze leaped to the incredible City towering not two miles away from us.
And as though we were sinking in that sky stream's depths its light kept lessening, darkening imperceptibly with luminous shadows of ghostly beryl, drifting veils of pellucid aquamarine, limpid mists of glaucous chrysolite.
But now I saw that all of these veils were not motionless like those through which we had just passed.
Came, too, flitting shadowings of huge shapes, unnameable, moving swiftly beside our way; gleamings that thrust themselves through the veils like wheeling javelins of flame.
And, as I peered, out of the veils and far away sped a violet spark.
Back through the throbbing veils we ran; passed out of them.
She clung close to her brother and beside him as we set forth down the roadway, through the rain, toward the ledge between the cliffs where the veils had shimmered.
The amethystine ring from which had been streamed the circling veils was cracked and blackened; like a seam of coal it had stretched around the Pit--a crown of mourning.
Two of the oldest girls, who were apparently graduates, were "differently beautiful" in their darkness and fairness, but alike picturesquely Spanish in their vivid dresses and the black veils fluttering from their high combs.
May be they were comparing notes about the tall hats and veils of the wise men, or they may not have thought their long beards becoming.
The wise men with their long gowns and veils had a hard time keeping up with the native players, who wore very little clothing and were quick and sure footed.
Imagine how funny they must have looked whirling round and round with their long robes, black veils and wide sleeves filled with the wind.
Does not the Church of the Divine Wisdom possess forty thousand chalice veils all embroidered with pearls and precious stones?
She puts a necklace round her neck, adorns her fingers with rings, and winds thin silken veils round her head.
The veils of time grow thin in these days to those of us who take Death into our reckoning all the time.
The arches of the great aqueduct of Saladin were occupied by parties of ladies; and long lines of women in their black veils sat like a huge flock of crows upon the parapets above.
Therefore the curtains and veils of this kind are removed on Good Friday.
And let the veils for doors, that is, the curtains which are hung up in churches at high feasts, and in Lent, be washed in another.
Concerning this it is to be noted that there be three kinds of veils which be hung in churches: that which concealeth the mysteries: that which divideth the sanctuary from the clergy: that which divideth the clergy from the laity.
The aromatic incense still floats in nebulous veils around the tabernacle.
I remember, I remember There were ghostly veils and laces .
The waters creep with fear; The heather veils itself, grows wan and white; All the leaves listen upon all the bushes, And the incendiary sunset hushes Before Its face his cries of brandished light.
We see no pretty young Genoese women in thin muslin veils nor handsome matrons in veils of flowered chintz; probably the rain keeps them and their finery indoors.
They, of course, wore the costume de rigueur for such functions, black gowns, and black laceveils on their heads.
This second lady was wrapped up in veils and shawls.
Peaceful clouds were suggested rather than seen above the boat and, all around, light veils of mist separated her from the infinite space in which the moon and stars were shedding their cold, but invisible radiance.
O Protector, remove not theveils of Thy protection!
So Ali in turn told him his story and added, 'By Allah, O my brother, nought moved me to keep my case secret from thee and others but my fear lest the folk should lift the veils of protection from certain persons.
They alighted without the city and Alaeddin hid the women in a cavern, whilst he went into Alexandria and fetched them veils and outer clothing, wherewith he covered them.
The bridal dresses are usually of white satin and point lace, a preference for tulle veils being very evident.
Their veils were raised but ready to be pulled down at a moment's notice.
We went silently down to the village, veils down, steps stealthy, eyes open and mouths shut.
I hate mourning,--I mean long veilsand crepe trimmings.
He signified his willingness, whereupon both favorites again clasped him about the neck with an arm, while they prepared to lift their veils with their free hands.
It seemed as if we might be approaching the black Styx through this melancholy wood where all seemed weeping in torn veils and ash-coloured garments.
I tore aside the muslin veils on her bosom and found the wound: it was not large, just one clean stab, turning purple at the edges.
In that moment his genius seemed to have passed behind veils upon veils of separation, to possess that tender and tragic beauty, to become one with the soul of the divine illimitable night.
The face in the glass smiled dimly, between two parted veils of hair.
All his wings are plumed with fervent fire; He hath twain that bear him upward evermore, With twain he veils his holy eyes before The mystery of his own divine desire.
The breeze lifted the long purple and rose-colored motor veilsof mother and daughters.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "veils" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
