The beautiful widow stood by the coffin, her eyes veiled with tears.

Clouds signify the veil of the Most High.

If the wind happened to catch her long silvery veil and any one saw it, they only thought it was a swan flapping its wings.

Criticism of "elitism" is often a veiled attack on intellectualism.

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.

For years past I have continually been conscious of some power behind the malefactor, some deep organising power which forever stands in the way of the law, and throws its shield over the wrong-doer. Again and again in cases of the most varying sorts--forgery cases, robberies, murders--I have felt the presence of this force, and I have deduced its action in many of those undiscovered crimes in which I have not been personally consulted. For years I have endeavoured to break through the veil which shrouded it, and at last the time came when I seized my thread and followed it, until it led me, after a thousand cunning windings, to ex-Professor Moriarty of mathematical celebrity.

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

The beautiful bride has her face covered by a white veil.

The unreliable colleague suffered from a veiled inferiority complex.

The politician tried to draw a veil over his shady dealings with the dictator.