Sentence examples for grey veil from inspiring English sources

The misty, grey veil was, in the meantime, being analysed.

All that remained was a grey veil of vapour drifting above the water".

Dust, 'the misty, grey veil of time,' which is woven without ceasing in the ever-moving loom of the passing hours, accumulates in every house, in spite of all the efforts of brooms and brushes".

Human beings subjected to more than 5 g forces in a seated position will suffer vision impairment in the form of a grey veil known to Stuka pilots as "seeing stars".

The veiling grey cloud holds his right hand within it, and doesn't make any impression on, any grasp on, the woman's waist.

The 27-minute film, stamped with the logo of a pair of crossed Kalashnikovs, a black flag and an open Qur'an, shows around 130 girls wearing grey and black veils.

The last shades of light were fading into grey, night beginning to veil the park-land.

The universal veil is grey.

This has its celebratory pitch, in Edinburgh, with Sargent's phenomenally nostalgic summer evening in the Luxembourg Gardens, the pale paths glimmering in the lavender-grey twilight, gowns, veils and cigar smoke glowing white as the hot moon rises above the trees: a ravishing nocturne of lingering heat and light.

The commanding Davit Hovhannisyan and Susan Gartell inhabit the sultry "Veronique" ("November came/ and with it died our love... the letters I write/ I never shall mail/ The world is grey/ wrapped in a veil").

Running along the Tian Shan mountains, their wizened old heads greyed with ice and veiled by rolling cloud, you'll witness the terrain expand and shrink by the hour.