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The doctrine of Moses and the Prophets, identical at bottom with that of the ancient Egyptians, also had its outward meaning and its veils.
Do they also carry bridal accessories, like hair decorations, veils and shoes?
Stephens veils the pastoral subjects with milky washes that streak the surface, and a brown glaze that drips languorously down it.
Other additional accoutrements such as wedding veils, fairy wings etc will also garner bonus points.
When they threw off their veils, we saw the kohl, lipstick, rouge and nail polish that the women wore.
Inhabiting these buildings are the depth, the reflections, the veils, the chiaroscuros, and an attenuated clarity that are created by the shade.
In the southwest district known as the Asir, women wear brightly colored, long-waisted dresses and no veils.
Here, the thin scrim is manipulated three-dimensionally with greater freedom than the watertight volumes it veils.
Most women wear headscarves, fewer wear veils, and many, especially in cities, are bareheaded and wear western clothes.
In the recesses of their shops, they would furtively lift their veils as we bartered over Bedouin jewellery and Yemeni daggers.
The top portion and the veils were cut as a single piece, slip-stitched to the outer lining of the hood.
He brought a strong, unstudied and remarkably fresh kind of romanticism to veils of darkness as well as sheets of summer rain or winter sleet.
As other women are pulling on their veils she walks past us in a plain black headscarf and a sober dark ensemble.
Women wear long dresses with embroidered bodices and side panels, and tall hats with long white veils.
For a dinner of state, like tonight, the dancers were covered in light, flowing material with veils, only their faces showing.
Black party hats with veils made of black pantyhose or some other translucent material can also be made.
And the nuns had black uniforms and black and white veils, which disguised their faces and covered their hair.
Floaters are described by patients as fine dots, veils, cobwebs, clouds, or strings.
The tabernacle's veils, composed of 4 colours were related to the 4 elements.
The symbolic white that covers the marriage bed also veils this woman's face.
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The lace curtains under the cornflower blue brocade were like Brussels wedding veils seen through a magnifying glass.
Judith saw girls with light-coloured gowns showing under dark coats, and swathing veils that preserved elaborate coiffures.
But the world, which veils the spirit and callouses the instincts, makes curiosity for most people the criterion of interest.
I have been told that superstitious thieves hang veils or kerchiefs before the picture in rooms where they depredate.
To-night, for example, the waning moon will rise late through veils of scirocco.
Haze drew its veils across the world, and the air grew brown with evenfall.
Demi-veils are short veils, fulled all round the bonnet, but most at the ears, which makes them fall more gracefully.
He who would strip you of veils and wrappers, and paints and gestures, would just have enough left to scare the crows.
Over them lay a film, like that which veils the eyes of some dead thing.
That did not necessitate masks and veils and sudden flights.
The Menexenus veils in panegyric the weak places of Athenian history.
The veils and salt crusts that blur mural paintings are the most unaesthetic and disturb the vision.
Benny she set on one side of him and Aunt Sally on the other, and they had veils on, and was full of trouble.
Through the thick veils of irresistible sleep, the major soon saw the husband and wife as mere points or formless objects.
When they had done dinner they threw off the veils that covered their heads and began to play at ball, while Nausicaa sang for them.
Having buttoned the overcoat round her shoulders he plunged into the webs of vapour which by this time formed veils between the trees.
Veil yourself in a thousand veils, all shimmering and glittering with costly textures and precious jewels.
I saw the dress that kea is to wear, and the bridesmaids' veils.
The European Court of Human Rights upheld France's 2010 ban on full-face veils in public on Tuesday but acknowledged the law could appear excessive and feed stereotypes.
Beaufort met them in a girlish cloud of mauve muslin and floating veils.
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