Word: veils
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...know how hasty she was. She put her hands in mine in that confiding way which is either the best or worst thing in women ? she was dressed in black velvet with a white ruff, and from her neck a thin white veil was flying?and so we came to the bazaar?and by the longest route. Then I did a foolish thing. I asked her whether she would buy some little article for herself?and at that she began to fade away?sure proof that she was not French but Scotch to the core...
...compromise the real significance of the story of Samson and Deliah. Not the moral side, however. He gives us the bald sexual narrative in all its conspicuousness. The sapping of the powerful muscular strength of the giant because of his infatuation for philistine women is hardly pleasant when the veil of old narrative in directness is stripped aside. Especially when...
...been suggested, the charm of the book lies largely in author's pleasant narrative style, his genial humor, and the thin veil of sentiment in evidence. His descriptions of Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians are features of the work which is probably a great deal more profitable reading than most contemporaneous novels...
...Veil of Happiness. Sacred peacocks, fairyland gardens, a blind poet-philosopher hopelessly in love, figure in this Chinese fantasy based on a novel by war-time Premier Georges ("Tiger") Clemenceau. It was filmed in Paris...
...veil of optimism that has hung over the camp of the CRIMSON baseball team was rudely rent yesterday by loud reports of internal trouble in the battery. The pitcher and catcher, known to teammates and fans as Frankie and Johnnie, have always been as close as the 60 feet between the plate and the box permitted, but a disagreement over a disputed passage in the poems of T. S. Eliot '10 has led, it is reported to a serious personal breach...