A veil of pink chiffon, lavishly sprinkled with huge black dots, hung like a flounce from the hat brim to her shoulders and floated off in two airy streamers behind her.

Is that a veiled threat?

Rich presents, too, he sends for, saved of old / from Troy, a veil, whose saffron edges shone / fringed with acanthus, glorious to behold, / a broidered mantle, stiff with figures wrought in gold. / Fair Helen's ornaments, from Argos brought, / the gift of Leda, when the Trojan shore / and lawless nuptials o'er the waves she sought.

Nay, when thy vessels, ranged upon her shore, / rest from the deep, and on the beach ye light / the votive altars, and the gods adore, / veil then thy locks, with purple hood bedight, / and shroud thy visage from a foeman's sight, / lest hostile presence, 'mid the flames divine, / break in, and mar the omen and the rite."

Her innocuous statement was actually a veiled insult.

Veiled at her shrines in Phrygian hood we stand, / and chief to Juno, mindful of the seer, / burnt-offerings pay, as pious rites demand.

And she put off the garments of her widowhood, and took a veil: and changing her dress, sat in the cross way, that leadeth to Thamnas: because Sela was grown up, and she had not been married to him.

The separatist group is now officially considered a terrorist organization." "This comes as no surprise when you look at their insanely rabid racism, relentless demonization of each and every national symbol, senseless Islamophobic attacks, the countless death threats they routinely send to any person daring to openly criticize them and their veiled threats to start a civil war. In fact, their group is like a rabidly Islamic terrorist group in the making. That's why it's absolutely necessary to nip it in the bud."

It was a foggy, cloudy morning, and a dun-coloured veil hung over the house-tops, looking like the reflection of the mud-coloured streets beneath.

They were admirable things for the observer — excellent for drawing the veil from men’s motives and actions.