Example Sentences

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That brought drizzling rain and mists that have veiled the hills all day, putting a complete stop to all hostilities.

From Four Months Besieged The Story of Ladysmith by Pearse, H. H. S. (Henry Hiram Steere)

In the beauty of the twilight, in the Garden that He loveth, They have veiled His lovely vesture with the darkness of a name!

From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 3 by Stevenson, Burton Egbert

The noise of the respective engines prevented either party hearing the other, and the fog would have veiled them had the space between been considerably less.

From The Launch Boys' Adventures in Northern Waters by Hughes, Burton Donnel

Before Chariton he stood like a shining god, and she would gladly have veiled either him or herself.

From Titan: A Romance v. 1 (of 2) by Richter, Jean Paul Friedrich

Beatrice asked, with a change in her voice, from anxious interest which would have veiled itself, to the tone of one discharging a formal politeness.

From A Life's Morning by Gissing, George