In the Sufi take on the creation story, Source is described as 'veiling' itself, in order to create the physical world.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mark Silver: How Productivity Contributes to Global Warming and Debt] Reference

And when they couldn't understand, they maligned the ideas they found unfamiliar, such as veiling of women like Aisha.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spirit21] Reference

Silently sifting and veiling road, roof and railing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poems of To-Day: an Anthology] Reference

And far o'er the scene, while the evening is veiling.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference

'Twas but a schoolgirl, with trembling lips and veiling hair.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ladies A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty] Reference

"Yes," said he, veiling his great dark eyes with their long lashes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Ferns For Fanny's Little Friends] Reference

Her veiling eye-lids lifting, Grace found herself on the threshold of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Grace Harlowe's Golden Summer] Reference

The two girls looked at each other, each carefully veiling hostility.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hidden Gold] Reference

Ellen is busy making a pale blue nun's-veiling blouse for Emma Hagan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three Years in Tristan da Cunha] Reference

She looked at me, veiling her violet eyes as if to hide her thoughts from us.    From Wordnik.com.  [Card Trick] Reference

"I am just wondering whether I have outgrown my nun's veiling," she said simply.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden] Reference

There have been plenty of un-veiling ceremonies for new statues at the U.S. Capitol.    From Wordnik.com.  [Michelle Hits Her Stride] Reference

= A thin, soft-finished silk fabric of a veiling kind, now used as millinery lining.    From Wordnik.com.  [Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades] Reference

They are, like the Phidian statues of the Fates, inseparable from their filmy veiling.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years] Reference

= Sheer stuff of silk and wool for veiling, named from the town of Barèges, in France.    From Wordnik.com.  [Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades] Reference

In warm weather lighter materials can be worn -- as, pique, nun's veiling, or white lawn.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of Good Manners; a Guide to Polite Usage for All Social Functions] Reference

And a shadow passes over the face, obliterating the satire, and veiling the brilliant eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Youth of Jefferson A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764] Reference

The woman he held struggled from his arms and stared at him wildly in the veiling twilight.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Invader A Novel] Reference

The Vatican has declared that veiling shows disrespect for local cultures and sensibilities.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beyond The Veil] Reference

Maya rose up from the leaves of the cool lily, and put aside the veiling masses of her hair.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858] Reference

"For them, veiling is not meant to restrict their access to the public sphere but to enhance it.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Seeing Clearly] Reference

They protect their hair with turbans of veiling, occasionally decorated with a bit of bright color.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 363, December 16, 1882] Reference

Carla Power and Rebecca Hall wrote: "The Qur'an does not mandate veiling for women" ( "Seeing Clearly").    From Wordnik.com.  [International Mail Call: The Politics Of Dress] Reference

So he pleaded his suit to the gentle girl, veiling still more his fierce claws with the velvet glove, realizing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hubert's Wife A Story for You] Reference

Towards evening the mist climbs, faintly veiling the tall groves of elms and the piled masses of the city itself.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Invader A Novel] Reference

The effect is cumulative and disturbing, veiling any direct emotional response but brandishing its own indelible mark.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Penal Colony; Don Pasquale; La bohème/Euridice; Chilingirian Quartet] Reference

It makes predicting the yuan's short-term moves difficult, and offers Chinese officials a way of veiling their thinking.    From Wordnik.com.  [China's Currency Glasnost Has Its Limits] Reference

The sill was scarlet with geraniums, and the window itself was grown partly over and half smothered in a veiling of ivy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Black Cross] Reference

She was looking very lovely, in an elusive frock of some ephemeral material veiling a delicate prismatic undertone of colour.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Vision of Desire] Reference

But the dangerous adventurer was betrayed by the glance which Hafner could not succeed in veiling with indifferent amiability.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

The wrappers are usually made of challis, nun's veiling, cashmere, or other light woolen materials which can be readily washed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mother and Her Child] Reference

The mask, which had been specially designed to suit the girl, was nothing more than a piece of veiling, with the goggles set in.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Motor Girls] Reference

"You've been an unconscionable time!" the latter complained, veiling her eyes to conceal their gleam of awakened curiosity and interest.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fifth Ace] Reference