Veils
[veilz]
Examples
- Very little white satin, very few lace veils; a most pitiful business! Jane Austen. Emma.
- Their veils were down, and hid their faces from me. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- At last, men felt, the ranks of diplomacy were broken, the veils of Great Power policy were rent in twain. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- We let their bodies go abroad liberally enough, with smiles and ringlets and pink bonnets to disguise them instead of veils and yakmaks. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- This would seem to be secretly agreeable to Wegg, but he veils his feelings, and observes, 'Strange. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Then wrapt they in soft purple veils the rich urn, digg'd a pit, Grav'd it, built up the grave with stones, and quickly piled on it A barrow. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Edited by Jacqueline