英语 example sentences with "veil"

This bride is covering her face with a veil.
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It was night, and a veil of darkness covered the streets.
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Clouds signify the veil of the Most High.
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They were admirable things for the observer — excellent for drawing the veil from men’s motives and actions.
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She wears a veil to hide her wounds.
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She hid her face behind a veil.
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The first rays of the sun tore the cloudy veil and the outline of a rocky island appeared.
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You may tear apart the baby's rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived, could tear apart.
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I'll be wearing a veil.
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The prosaic materialism of the majority condemns as madness the flashes of super-sight which penetrate the common veil of obvious empiricism.
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It was a foggy, cloudy morning, and a dun-coloured veil hung over the house-tops, looking like the reflection of the mud-coloured streets beneath.
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She raised her veil as she spoke, and we could see that she was indeed in a pitiable state of agitation, her face all drawn and gray, with restless frightened eyes, like those of some hunted animal.
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She dropped her thick black veil over her face and glided from the room.
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Meanwhile, with beaten breasts and streaming hair, / the Trojan dames, a sad and suppliant train, / the veil to partial Pallas' temple bear. / Stern, with averted eyes the Goddess spurns their prayer.
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Rich presents, too, he sends for, saved of old / from Troy, a veil, whose saffron edges shone / fringed with acanthus, glorious to behold, / a broidered mantle, stiff with figures wrought in gold. / Fair Helen's ornaments, from Argos brought, / the gift of Leda, when the Trojan shore / and lawless nuptials o'er the waves she sought.
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They praise the boy, his glowing looks divine, / the words he feigned, the royal gifts he brought, / the robe, the saffron veil with bright acanthus wrought.
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"Nay, when thy vessels, ranged upon her shore, / rest from the deep, and on the beach ye light / the votive altars, and the gods adore, / veil then thy locks, with purple hood bedight, / and shroud thy visage from a foeman's sight, / lest hostile presence, 'mid the flames divine, / break in, and mar the omen and the rite."
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I am on the edge of mysteries and the veil is getting thinner and thinner.
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For years past I have continually been conscious of some power behind the malefactor, some deep organising power which forever stands in the way of the law, and throws its shield over the wrong-doer. Again and again in cases of the most varying sorts--forgery cases, robberies, murders--I have felt the presence of this force, and I have deduced its action in many of those undiscovered crimes in which I have not been personally consulted. For years I have endeavoured to break through the veil which shrouded it, and at last the time came when I seized my thread and followed it, until it led me, after a thousand cunning windings, to ex-Professor Moriarty of mathematical celebrity.

And so the veil falls, revealing the walls, of cavernous halls, Valhalla calls.

The whole sky had looked like gold, she said, and as for the clouds! well, their beauty was beyond description, they floated in red and violet splendour over her head, and, far faster than they went, a flock of wild swans flew like a long white veil over the water toward the setting sun.

If the wind happened to catch her long silvery veil and any one saw it, they only thought it was a swan flapping its wings.

And she put off the garments of her widowhood, and took a veil: and changing her dress, sat in the cross way, that leadeth to Thamnas: because Sela was grown up, and she had not been married to him.

A veil of pink chiffon, lavishly sprinkled with huge black dots, hung like a flounce from the hat brim to her shoulders and floated off in two airy streamers behind her.

Algerian Arabs veil their sisters but violate and beat women who are not veiled.

Algerian Arabs veil their sisters and their wives but spend their time watching pornographic films.

A woman was raped in broad daylight. Algerians are reproaching her for not wearing a veil.

Algerians veil their wives but deceive them too.

The politician tried to draw a veil over his shady dealings with the dictator.

The beautiful bride has her face covered by a white veil.

The elderly woman, her head covered with a black veil, lit a candle before the statue of the Virgin Mary.

The veil of ignorance is getting thinner.

Her cheeks and the tip of her nose were bright red, her eyelashes covered in a veil of ice.

I wear a hooded lace veil to church.

The sky is covered by clouds without a single gap, and no end to this gray veil can be seen.

Donald covered himself with a veil.

Then they planted this garden with all manner fruit-bearing trees and fragrant herbs and flowers and firstlings of every kind and hue and they trained the branches after a wonderful fashion, leading under their shade leats and runnels of cool water; and the boughs were cunningly dispread so as to veil the ground which was planted with grains of divers sorts and greens and all of vegetation that serveth for the food of man.

Antonio took Rima’s veil off.

Muslim women continuing to wear the veil became subject of public harassment.

What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer; a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciation of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are, to Him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy — a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of the United States, at this very hour.

Clouds are the veil behind which the face of day coquettishly hides itself, to enhance its beauty.

Through your veil we see your dove-like eyes.

Your cheeks, two pomegranate cuts, can be seen behind the veil.

A lie is a veil over the lips.