Veiled

Examples

• She sat down among the roots of the alder tree, dim and veiled, hearing the sound of the sluice like dew distilling audibly into the night. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The veiled woman with her cried out faintly. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Party speeches were delivered, which clothed the question in cant, and veiled its simple meaning in a woven wind of words. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• I saw the white tomb again, and the veiled woman rising out of it by Hartright's side. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• These two points of view are really opposed, and the opposition is only veiled by the genius of Plato. Plato. The Republic.
• Ursula was dim and veiled, looming over him. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• In his heavy and feverish sleep, a veiled form stood beside him, and laid a cold, soft hand upon him. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Poverty was the cloud that veiled her excellencies, and all that was good in her seemed about to perish from want of the genial dew of affection. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• And then rose up that solemn veiled figure, and drew aside the veil. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• No veiled future dimly glanced upon him in the moonbeams. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• So I turned at the door: I saw a robed and veiled figure, so unlike my usual self that it seemed almost the image of a stranger. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• But, when night came, and with her veiled eyes beheld him stumping towards Boffin's Bower, he was elated too. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Her face is veiled, and still she sufficiently betrays herself to make more than one of those who pass her look round sharply. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• In his own mind there was only a lazy sense of pleasure, veiling the sharp edges of sensation as the September haze veiled the scene at their feet. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Papa, said a voice from the veiled couch, thank the lady, too; is she there? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• I do not like these veiled threats. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• He thought he knew who it was; and shuddered, with creeping horror, though the face was veiled. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Madame Fosco came downstairs, thickly veiled, with the travelling cage of the white mice in her hand. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• But the veiled woman had possession of me, body and soul. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The woman with the veiled face moved away from her companion, and came towards me slowly. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• I stood about three yards from a tall, sable-robed, snowy-veiled woman. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• She started up, passed her father, who had never moved at the veiled, dull sound,--returned, and kissed him tenderly. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• He was kneeling by a tomb of white marble, and the shadow of a veiled woman rose out of the grave beneath and waited by his side. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Veiled for ever to the world's callous eye must be the transport of that moment. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The darkness closed round the pilgrim at the marble tomb--closed round the veiled woman from the grave--closed round the dreamer who looked on them. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• At this moment the moon veiled her face discreetly behind a wandering cloud, and their lips met in a kiss—a kiss of pure and enduring love. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• It was veiled by the curtain of a Sumerian legend. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• A lady dressed in black and heavily veiled, who had been sitting in the window, rose as we entered. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Instantly her white lids veiled her eyes, and I thought I discovered a delicate flush tingeing her cheek. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• A cold silvery mist had veiled the afternoon, and the moon was not yet up to scatter it. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.

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