Example Sentences

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It conveys dimly and veiledly that Abraham was buried, and yet that was not all that happened to him.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture by Maclaren, Alexander

He had had the sense not to join the organization; and his attitude of the slightly supercilious, veiledly contemptuous Britisher, scorning all things about him, was sufficient guarantee of his neutrality.

From The Gray Dawn by White, Stewart Edward