Exempel på vail

• At that moment the fog lifted up from the surface of the sea, as if a vail or scroll had been raised.

• Her face they do not see, as a gauze vail hides it from mortal view.

• We do not see through the thin vail, which separates the world of spirits and men.

• And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people, and the vail that is spread over all nations.

• Then by a rapid movement, the visitor pulled the vail again over her face.

• She has put on the robe and vail; and now she has sent me down to make the bouquet.

• She had flashed a keen, quick glance from one to the other; had dropped her vail suddenly over her face, and turned away.

• She had flung back her vail, and in her white and ghastly face and dilated violet eyes you could read a waiting look.

• She had a vail tied close across her face; but she had no gloves, and her manner showed haste and excitement.

• The thin lace vail which partially covered her face did not so much conceal as heighten her beauty.

• I will refute that idea, and will take away the vail, so that you may see.

• The vail of illusion silk net, is embroidered above the hem with twelve rows of narrow silk braid put very near together.

• There were nine daughters left, three of whom took the vail and the rest formed illustrious marriages.

• But the holy and pure did not lower or vail her eyes.

• At such heights and to such men it seems as though the vail between heaven and earth becomes thinner and more easily pierced.