This bride is covering her face with a veil.

The whole sky had looked like gold, she said, and as for the clouds! well, their beauty was beyond description, they floated in red and violet splendour over her head, and, far faster than they went, a flock of wild swans flew like a long white veil over the water toward the setting sun.

The prosaic materialism of the majority condemns as madness the flashes of super-sight which penetrate the common veil of obvious empiricism.

She wears a veil to hide her wounds.

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.

The first rays of the sun tore the cloudy veil and the outline of a rocky island appeared.

Her innocuous statement was actually a veiled insult.

They praise the boy, his glowing looks divine, / the words he feigned, the royal gifts he brought, / the robe, the saffron veil with bright acanthus wrought.

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

She hid her face behind a veil.