Meanings of vail (vailed) in English

Your lofty crest vailed at last-andat such a time!

This was the old mortal body, that vailed, rather than made visible, her real beauty.

He was there manifested and vailed at once; both expressions are made concerning the same matter.

Had vailed her topsails to the sand

He vailed the present good, and magnified the worth of things possessing no power to satisfy the heart.

They perceived some things in a new and clearer light that had been to them vailed in obscurity before.

And kind and loving were Harold's looks and brief words, as he rode with vailed bonnet through the swarming streets.

The mysterious vailed woman, supposed to be connected with the robbery and murder at Lone Castle, has been found and arrested.

At this moment the Inaccessible Island, which till then had been vailed in thick clouds and mist, appeared frowning above the haze.

But the dark fate that hung over her at that hour was vailed from his view, and hope mingled with fear in his bosom.

He was beginning to explain, when Mrs. Wimbush vailed her Sunday paper, and appeared, a square, mauve-powdered face in the midst of orange splendours.

But it appeared to be still far off, and all the country between, partly vailed in silvery mists, glittered with lakes and streams of water.

"And so the mysterious vailed woman had been discovered, and she turns out to be Rose Cameron!"

But her wild beauty was a vail to things still more strange.

They put on Freyja's dress, necklace and vail, and braided his hair.

But over the entrance of the Grammar School is a vail drawn!