veiled

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Not a shot was fired at us--veiled, as we were, by the mist--until we had gotten still farther away, but then some enormous projectiles landed around us A question that would naturally present itself to one who had heard of the repeated victories won by the Confederate army would be, "Why were no decisive results?"

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  1. adjective Covered with a veil: the veiled head of a bride.
  2. adjective Concealed or disguised as if with a veil: "slur-footed ironies, veiled jokes, tiptoe malices” (Edith Wharton).

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  • But we failed to get her identified as the veiled woman who had visited the house in Grosvenor Gardens. —  The Grell Mystery
  • Not a shot was fired at us--veiled, as we were, by the mist--until we had gotten still farther away, but then some enormous projectiles landed around us A question that would naturally present itself to one who had heard of the repeated victories won by the Confederate army would be, "Why were no decisive results?" —  The Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson
  • The empire of passion is veiled, and its battle ground is secret Who beheld the interview in the library, which I have just described? —  Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author
  • The witches themselves admitted that they were masked and veiled, and the evidence of other witnesses goes to prove the same. —  The Witch-cult in Western Europe A Study in Anthropology
  • The wailing breeze has become a moaning wind; a white film spreads over the purple sky; the stars are veiled, the stars are hid; all becomes as dark as the waters of Kedron and the valley of Jehosha-phat. —  Tancred Or, The New Crusade
 

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