Meanings of filmy veil in English

Nature, like most other women, looks particularly well through a filmy veil.

Between him and the light hung a filmy veil of smoke.

We'll have a filmy veil over the lower part of her face-mystery ,youknow.

A light white mist, like a filmy veil- atissueof clouds and moonbeams-hungover the lake.

But, as I thank God, a filmy veil, softening, refining, always lay between her and reality.

Esmeralda rose and strolled over to the glass to arrange her hat and pin on a filmy veil.

The bridal dress with its filmy veil still lay in its white box- afairygarment that had survived the catastrophe.

The filmy veil over the lower part of her face did but emphasize the beauty and size of her golden eyes.

Tudor, standing beside her with his elbow on the mantelpiece, was still conscious of that filmy veil of reserve floating between them.

The blue dome of sky has lost its crystalline sparkle, and the trees in Madison-square have put on a filmy veil of green.

Over her head, caught in a jewelled fillet, there hung a filmy veil of gold, half revealing, half concealing, the smiling face behind.

Cool, serene, with a filmy veil thrown back from her hat brim, she rocked idly, utterly unconscious of the eyes of the populace.

He scaled the crumbling bricks, and regained the sheltering orange grove, and she walked slowly back, drawing smooth her filmy veil, towards the darkened palace.

Pussy willow buds were swelling and over the orchard and the wood a filmy veil of summer color was dropped as though by fairy hands.

Down the valley crept the mist, trailing its filmy veils over point and peak and ridge.

On a platform at the back of a wagon, a dancer was performing, draped in filmy veils.