availed

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Last week Daniell had good news: the Bank of England cut its interest rate from a forbidding 7% , which had pre vailed since last November's pound cri sis, to 6% .

From Time Magazine Archive

But it appeared to be still far off, and all the country between, partly vailed in silvery mists, glittered with lakes and streams of water.

From The Indian Fairy Book From the Original Legends by Mathews, Cornelius

He saw the whole heavens vailed by black clouds; not a sunbeam gleamed over the fields, and a heavy clap of thunder followed his waking.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 by Various

Thus the magnitude of the enterprise was announced, while at the same time it was left vailed in mystery.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol IV. No. XX. January, 1852. by Various

I think she is young and pretty, though she was heavily vailed.

From The Son of Monte-Cristo by Lermina, Jules