In those days our women wore deep black mourning and veils, and sombre, indeed, was Dina as she went out to church, to Tom's grave, or to half a dozen poor households she had taken under her wing.
"The Mermaid of Druid Lake and Other Stories"
Charles Weathers Bump
He saw it change as a sun-kissed landscape might when a cloud veils the sun.
"The Man from Jericho"
Edwin Carlile Litsey
He claims in the name of the Spectator to be a censor of manners and morals; and though he veils his pretensions under delicate irony, the claim is perfectly serious at bottom.
"English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century"
Leslie Stephen