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    veil


    veiled


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    veils


    1. John sticks his head inside the limo, finds himself abruptly face to face with Teekra, who has pulled away her tattered veil


    2. wearing a veil when appearing in public


    3. which included a veil


    4. Tears may fall beneath this down turned veil,


    5. Tears may fall beneath this down turned veil


    6. It is when that veil is rent off from Israel nationally that they are then able to receive the Lord Jesus as their Messiah


    7. But on that day, when that veil that deceives and blinds them is taken away, they shall see all things as they in fact are


    8. They are the deceivers and the ones who have kept that veil there for so long


    9. Israel’s full redemption comes when that veil is taken away, and they see Him whom they have pierced and weep for Him


    10. who all knew better but could only veil their threats

    11. That meant one percent gravity, the glare of Sol almost directly below them, and the snowflakes rising slowly by them except when they passed thru a veil


    12. The Veil of Memory


    13. I realized from this experience that this veil of


    14. Experience with Veil of Memory, 185


    15. There are times when the veil between heaven and earth grows thin and heaven begins to invade the earth


    16. The second heaven is a veil that blinds us to the reality of God’s truth, for the enemy has power there to deceive


    17. As we seek God we penetrate that veil and see into the third heaven


    18. “Gwen, the hat and veil,” commanded Mrs


    19. She sat down at the dressing table so that Gwen could attach the matching hat and veil to the top of her hair; part of which was a wig


    20. had a veil of lies over her eye that prevented her from seeing the

    21. As we prayed and I braved to venture past the dark veil of fear, I


    22. affairs," Katrina said from the other side of the empty seat, the black symbols on her face partially obscured by her veil


    23. Nor has the Council ever spent its time dealing in gossip," the High-Mage Nicola said, looking toward Katrina who sneered back at her through the holes in her veil


    24. "Would you have us join your death march as well, LeCynic?" Katrina whispered at his side, gripping her veil in a pair of fists


    25. "Hah, the Destroyer? Even if you had the man, nothing living has stepped through the Gate in five hundred years," Katrina said, trying to vanish beneath her veil


    26. Notice the watchmen took her veil away


    27. When the usual hour arrived the grand-vizir conducted Scheherazade to the palace, and left her alone with the Sultan, who bade her raise her veil and was amazed at her beauty


    28. Saw to the heart of the Seventh World where a black veil hid hatred, secrecy, lust


    29. Ome had always lacked the ability to veil his emotions


    30. were covered in a single purple and gold veil to signify

    31. This veil can be compared to a thin sheet of glass inserted in a window


    32. They offer you leads that will allow you to realize the existence of the veil of ignorance hiding from your view the limitless lot of opportunities you were granted at the moment of your birth


    33. Once you see the veil, it becomes possible to push it aside and walk through to an accessible universe of opportunities and abundance, just the way one pushes aside a sliding glass door


    34. Operating behind the veil of our consciousness?


    35. How would lifting that veil reveal


    36. Each articulation passes into history, is cast in stone: It is the prophet who turns their voice to the future And speaks the free voice of the origin to those Who may recognize it—the life of a whole comprised in its Entirety as one huge genie veil embroidered


    37. She could unfold the sling to veil her face, but the chiton was moth-eaten, stained, and ill-fitting


    38. The trick will be to keep him from insisting that I remove my veil


    39. In this meditation, you have the opportunity of seeing the veil between “you” and the outside world disappear


    40. On the other side of the veil, there is instead eternal bliss and an expanded sense of our existence

    41. The veil covered her face so I couldn't see who it was, but I knew it was Ali


    42. As such, hierarchies do not exist on the other side of the veil


    43. The veil separating this physical plane and the unseen higher realm is slowly being lifted, and all the changes, including our changing biology are helping us to be closer to our divinity and carry more energy within us


    44. Last but not least, I would like to share a message which was conveyed from the other side of the veil


    45. I looked toward the mountains and saw the mist that hung there like a veil over a woman"s face


    46. Each also wore a head veil pulled back, which partially covered their thick black, straight hair


    47. ‘I want to help you,’ she finally said, through the veil of tears


    48. Earlier, he had been acutely aware of the lingering charge of violence which hung in the room like a dark veil, but now it simply looked like a cold mess


    49. And rising to greet him, from behind the desk, one side of which held a small computer, was, not the old nun, but a much younger woman with a shock of thick black hair, bursting out of her new, neat, short veil


    50. She completed her dance wearing only a thin veil around her hips



































    1. Veiled threat of termination


    2. augment man’s thinly veiled hold on the outer edges of the galaxy


    3. That was what they were called, genetically mass-produced men and women born of test tubes to augment man’s thinly veiled hold on the outer edges of the galaxy


    4. From the gossip columns there'd been veiled rumours of his associations with certain criminal elements, but then I'd imagine after-show parties and nightclubs must have been brimming with suspicious characters in those days


    5. ' he said coolly, as I put the mug down on the desk, his eyes are veiled and impersonal


    6. ‘Yes, there didn’t seem to be any point in hanging around any more … and Ozzie had made a couple of veiled hints that I could have Chrissie … I didn’t want that … so I waited until a few hours before dawn and sneaked out of the building


    7. ARE VEILED BY THE BILLOWING


    8. The ash-filled clouds veiled the sun, covering the land in a dusk-like gloom even though it was not yet midday


    9. He veiled his every expression as he looked at LeCynic, his chin, cheeks and nose jutting into the air


    10. Aladdin was seized by a desire to see her face, which was hard to do, as she always went veiled

    11. Both of these matrons were veiled and gloved


    12. Since she wasn’t veiled, Nerissa had seen her face quite clearly at the auction


    13. giving him a not so subtly veiled threat


    14. Self-interested, veiled attempts @ promoting your biz will fall flat


    15. That the gospel is "veiled to those who are perishing" – 2Corinthians 4:3


    16. She blinked her eyes and looked up at the night sky, one with stars thickly veiled by dark storm clouds


    17. Though he wondered just how long he could afford to haunt footsteps and shadows in search of veiled truths


    18. Her eyes had a veiled and brooding look


    19. The smile faded from his lips and the dark eyes veiled over again


    20. This/these remarkable event(s) quickly brought to mind the Persian Gulf War (Operation Desert Storm) waged ten years earlier by coalition forces led by the United States against Iraq who, having invaded Kuwait and seizing possession of its oil wells, was making veiled threats against its Saudi (Arabian) neighbor

    21. Stupidly, he complained, tried to back out, even made a veiled threat about going to the police when that didn’t work


    22. Then, a thinly veiled reference to his shuffling of data to keep hidden the propriety of certain loans won his complete, undivided attention and an overwhelming degree of cooperation which sufficed to wipe clean the trail of the checks and ignore any interest on the loan


    23. With a gaze slightly reminiscent of the mythic gorgon she simply answered with another thinly veiled insult: “Vultures you mean? Nobody does


    24. Thinly veiled commands, supply lists, maps


    25. Yves, I'll call him, had veiled eyes and an air of suppressed rage


    26. Beyond, on the slopes of the Glen, were blossoming orchards, sweet and mystic and wonderful, veiled in dusk


    27. Therefore, due to its delayed fruition, karma remains a hidden factor, veiled and unknown


    28. I could really see no difference between him and them, and their languages were mutually comprehensible, but they seemed to have a thinly veiled contempt for Klah, and I was suspect since I was in his company


    29. I had to laugh, thinking that it sounded a lot like one of William's thinly veiled insults to pick up girls


    30. Roger’s lack of preparation to cope adequately with the complexity of his current struggles, his inability to handle correctly Josie’s behavioral patterns and Robert’s psychological and mental needs, and his powerlessness to check the downhill drift of his financial condition clouded his mind to the point that he may have missed some of Josie’s veiled overtures towards “married calm”

    31. Whether it was Roger’s fear of being trapped or sued, or whether it was a feeling of revenge on his part, those veiled openings did not amount to anything positive


    32. A veiled look passed between Gabriel and the Pastor


    33. , NASA, and Army Inspector Generals for the lab’s senior management’s long standing practice of cheating the USG using thinly veiled cost accounting shenanigans


    34. Considering my mother’s veiled invitation, the leaves of my family tree were calling me to come home


    35. The last thing that Moshe saw was Judah, horse, and passenger disappearing into the cloud that veiled a raging cataract charging down upon them unseen, but deafening in its presence


    36. “Was it unjust of me to offer an insult veiled in a compliment when I first arrived here? Obviously it was not unjust enough for the oath to prevent me from saying it


    37. and after that he appeared to two of them on that day and while they were going to the village which was named Emmaus and whose distance from Jerusalem was sixty furlongs; And they were talking the one of them with the 41 other of all the things which had happened; And during the time of their talking and inquiring with one another Jesus came and reached them and walked with them; But their eyes were veiled that they should not know him; And he said to them What are these sayings which you address the one of you to the other as you walk and are sade One of them whose name was Cleopas answered and said to him Are you perchance alone a stranger to Jerusalem since you know not what was in it in these days? He said to them What was it? They said to him concerning Jesus he who was from Nazareth a man who was a prophet and powerful in speech and deeds before God and before all the people and the chief priests and the elders delivered him up to the sentence of death and crucified him; But we supposed that he was the one who was to deliver Israel; And since all these things happened there have passed three days; But certain women of us also informed us that they had come to the tomb and when they found not his body they came and told us that they had seen there the angels and they said concerning him that he was alive; And some of us also went to the tomb and found the matter as the women had said: only they saw him not; Then said Jesus to them you lacking in discernment and heavy in heart to believe! Was it not in all the sayings of the prophets that the Messiah was to suffer these things and to enter into his glory? And he began from Moses and from all the prophets and interpreted to them concerning himself from all the scriptures; And they drew near to the village where they were going and he was leading them to imagine that he was as if going to a distant region; And they pressed him and said to him Abide with us for the day has declined now into the darkness; And he went inside to abide with them; And when he sat with them he took bread and blessed and brake and gave to them; And straight away their eyes were opened and they knew him and he was taken away from them; And they said the one to the other Was not our heart heavy within us while he was speaking to us on the way and interpreting to us the scriptures?


    38. Now after I had passed by the wild beast and had moved forward about thirty feet lo! a virgin meets me adorned as if she were proceeding from the bridal chamber clothed entirely in white and with white sandals and veiled up to her forehead and her head was covered by a hood


    39. And washed with rain and veiled by night,


    40. father that is either hidden or is carried out in indirect and veiled ways

    41. Was that a veiled barb? By the way Harry hurried me along I’m inclined to believe


    42. earlier he waited with thinly veiled impatience until she finished drinking and then took her


    43. And now Andre was sweating bullets, telling thinly veiled lies to his subordinates, and had tossed his career completely in the toilet


    44. Vanessa’s mother, Jenny, and I had a thinly veiled but friendly rivalry between us,


    45. Jacob entered the tent and saw the veiled figure of a woman


    46. The threat wasn’t a veiled one by any means and Gerard got the message loud and clear; either play ball or kiss his job goodbye


    47. And it‘s so called reminders were little more than veiled threats too


    48. His soul left through a veiled window


    49. He made to punch, to kick, to hurt this black-clothed Maarisa-spawn, and before he even knew what he was doing he had the figure pinned to the ground and his fist raised to bring it down into the veiled figure’s face


    50. kneeling candidate and his sponsors were almost veiled in the loveliest of










































    1. fade to transparency, veiling themselves as her energy recuperated


    2. But whether it was a blessing veiling itself under the misty form of some ill omen or was in reality a curse is something that depnds on the point of view with which it is looked at


    3. Clouds of dust rose from the plains, under the stamping hoofs, veiling the action


    4. The trunks of the trees did not crowd close to the crag, but the ends of their lower branches extended about it, veiling it with their foliage


    5. And what does veiling women in Islam mean? Won’t it reveal the lack of male appreciation of womanly emotions? Oh, how the veil and all that goes with it stunt female sexuality! The embarrassment of Muhammad in desiring Zaynab, wife of his adopted son Zayd, could have caused him to stress upon veil for the female as a barrier against male frailty


    6. But it’s naïve to think it’s the God’s Will for He didn’t ordain veiling of the Jewish and the Christian women


    7. Well, if veiling the fair sex is the cure for adultery, then it would have been still worth its cloth, if not for anything but to avert the exploitation of women


    8. Thus, it’s an irony of Islam that in veiling its women it veils the vision of its men as well


    9. How can this spirit draw nearer to the Almighty Al'lah while its yearning has become very influential with and fully controlled over it till it (its yearning) stood as an obstructing block and a veiling screen between this spirit and its Creator?


    10. But the fact is that woman’s veiling is the main foundation on which a strong society is based, and in fact ensures its longevity

    11. Such veiling ensured that they would not be open to temptation nor would they arouse the instinctive desire of men


    12. There was fake embarrassment in his voice, thinly, very thinly veiling the sinister threat contained in the question


    13. The only thing that is veiling and obstructing our encounter with this knowledge is thinking


    14. It is veiling the Truth constantly


    15. I was able to pick up the general area of where he was, but between concentrating on veiling my thoughts and trying to locate him, I had no clue what he had planned


    16. “Is this more of the veiling you’re talking about?”


    17. That humid and congenial atmosphere which commonly adorned the view, veiling its harshness, and softening its asperities, had disappeared, the northern air poured across the waste of water so harsh and unmingled, that nothing was left to be conjectured by the eye, or fashioned by the fancy


    18. Wildly I lay on her, kissed her: eyes, her lips, her stretched neck beating, woman's breasts full in her blouse of nun's veiling, fat nipples upright


    19. veiling shadow that some power lays upon the land, and it marches slowly down stream


    1. The newer ships with their near relativistic speeds and more delicate construction must dodge the interstellar bodies like the veils of snowflakes that nearly disabled the Heavenly Mother


    2. The genie itself may be nothing more than a play of Such veils, and hence might we simply make do with Inanimate bottles and slow shifting star constellations?


    3. adjusting veils and hats with adroit feminine touches; the pretty


    4. And what now? How did she feel about him now, this Faery Prince who had seduced her in dreams that Hallowe'en night, Samhain, the night when the veils between heaven and earth thinned to nothing, when anything could happen


    5. There, the Northern Lights were dancing, drawing coloured veils against the black


    6. ” Being “between” seasons or years, Samhain was (and is) considered a very magical time, when the dead walk among the living and the veils between past, present and future may be lifted in prophecy and divination


    7. “As I draw back the veils of time and look back over the last


    8. illusive power that veils the Reality


    9. 51 Furthermore they set the loaves on the table and spread out the veils and finished all the works which they had begun to make


    10. the moon, the veils of sorrow

    11. Hats, veils and dead foxes were missing, but everything else seemed the same


    12. through the veils to how things really are,


    13. According to Carla, a group of men dressed in black with veils on their faces rode up, snatched Resa, and rode off


    14. One by one the girls revealed their faces and threw their veils into the crowd


    15. veils of His "Flesh" (Scripture or daily bread) as it was promised but not in the widely


    16. If you quiet the mind and accept all that is, the veils separating you from your true Self will thin


    17. He forbade the wearing of beards and long coats and relaxed the restrictions on women, allowing them to participate in social functions and ordering the removal of the oppressive veils that covered their faces


    18. Ansh: What the hell? Do you think that we can hide ourselves from vampires and werewolves by wearing these veils? They can recognize us by our smell


    19. We cannot cheat them by wearing these stupid veils


    20. Veils will be lifted from the face of the nonphysical…

    21. Just as a thin layer of muslin veils the face of a lady and renders it invisible to the eyes of her husband, so also a thin layer of ignorance separates the individual soul and the Supreme Soul


    22. Thus, it’s an irony of Islam that in veiling its women it veils the vision of its men as well


    23. During thousands of years, darkness wore several veils, making its vision of reality totally blurred and not seeing its neighbor as a mirror, because we are one, and we are the Son of God Father and Mother in any degree or dimension


    24. maidens in a pure white satin and white veils as they danced gentle and beautifully to the entrance


    25. Women wearing veils are more puzzling than what men think


    26. prompts to action, and tamas veils knowledge and drives one to


    27. The purpose here is to make man remember the greatness of this miracle, the miracle of the night when it starts and it falls and veils the half of this globe


    28. For example, if he hears about women’s unveiling he forgets God’s saying in His Holy Book: “Prophet, say to your wives, your daughters, and the wives of true believers to draw their veils close round them


    29. “When it veils them”: The night veils the boons which God created for you and covers them with its darkness


    30. Keith Moore these three veils of darkness in the Qur’aan refer to:

    31. God says: ﴾O Prophet! Tell your wives and your daughters and the women of the believers to draw their cloaks (veils) all over their bodies (i


    32. Al'lah veils the corrupting means off those who have the capability of believing truly and doing good


    33. They turn to be darkness and darkness as veils exactly like this very deep sea


    34. “They are the architects of greatness, their vision lies within their souls, they peer beyond the veils and mists of doubt and pierce the walls of unborn Time


    35. She always was transparent, but without knowing it; now she herself has pulled off her veils, and cordially requests one to look her through and through and see for oneself how there is nothing there but contentment


    36. I shivered inside my soul as these girls danced, taking off layer after layer of thin translucent veils


    37. After all the exhaustive teachings regarding circumcision, it appears that Paul was very clear on this message…but was he? Galatians 5:11 If we agree that circumcision is nothing, why do we keep seeking nothing yet expecting something good to come out of it? Why did we manage to get nearly half the males in The United States under the knife despite the specific teachings on this subject alone? Galatians 5:2 Why something so simple for one man to understand be so complicated for another? Do we now see how Religion holds some captive through the veils of idolatry while others through a security blanket? 1Corinthians 13:11 Unfortunately, there is more to this security blanket


    38. Romans 6:1-3 Nonetheless, to make sure there are no more veils left on this matter, let us settle the obvious: Romans 6:6 “Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin


    39. The latest historical research on Jamestown has begun to lift the veils of lies and secret plots and murders committed in that first attempt


    40. Since science has managed to lift the veils of

    41. while hiding behind deceptive veils


    42. leadership of this cadre of liars, thieves and mass murderers operates behind the web of veils


    43. Everything was visible, as she was only dressed in a series of see-through gauzy veils of different shades of color


    44. And We drape veils over their hearts, preventing them from understanding it, and heaviness in their ears


    45. His robe of blue veils his eternal purpose, but in the rising and the setting sun his orb of red is seen


    46. That which is on its way comes as a cloud which veils the sun


    47. Sandra's veils were swirled about her


    48. All this time neither she nor they had removed their veils or spoken a word, only on sitting down on the chair the woman gave a deep sigh and let her arms fall like one that was ill and weak


    49. She would have liked to be once more lost in the long line of white veils, marked off here and there by the stuff black hoods of the good sisters bending over their prie-Dieu


    50. The twelve duennas and the lady came on at procession pace, their faces being covered with black veils, not transparent ones like Trifaldin's, but so close that they allowed nothing to be seen through them































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    Synonyms for "veil"

    head covering veil humeral veil caul embryonic membrane velum blot out hide obliterate obscure shroud gauze cloud tissue web haze shade concealment mask scarf cover kerchief

    "veil" definitions

    a garment that covers the head and face


    a membranous covering attached to the immature fruiting body of certain mushrooms


    the inner membrane of embryos in higher vertebrates (especially when covering the head at birth)


    a vestment worn by a priest at High Mass in the Roman Catholic Church; a silk shawl


    to obscure, or conceal with or as if with a veil


    make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing