ailing

Example Sentences

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She dropped him a courtesy with an uplook and again a vailing of her wicked eyes.

From Malcolm by MacDonald, George

There Hero, sacrificing turtle's blood, Vailed to the ground, vailing her eyelids close, And modestly they opened as she rose.

From Hero and Leander by Marlowe, Christopher

The abbot, vailing his pride like a wise man, told whither he was bound and for what purpose.

From The Decameron, Volume II by Rigg, J. M. (James Macmullen)

Sir John exclaimed, reining in his horse, "who are you who pass a knight and a gentleman on the highway without vailing his bonnet in respect?"

From In Freedom's Cause : a Story of Wallace and Bruce by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)

Ladies unmask'd, says Boyet, are like angels vailing clouds, or letting those clouds which obscured their brightness, sink from before them.

From Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies by Johnson, Samuel