Leeta gave the order to raise the cloak, and the bridge dimmed once more as the ship vanished into its protective veil of invisibility.

Behind its protective veil life went on aboard the Lotus.

I will weave you fast in a protective veil.

She said she liked being behind the protective veil of the purdah.

Like brides behind their protective veils, they wooed the golden phallus, but it would not surrender to them.

Literally, purdah means "veil" and the system involves women being confined indoors or wearing a protective veil whenever they venture outdoors.

Like participants in role-playing games, who might shoplift or play edge games under the protective veils of their characters, hackers find new, seemingly invulnerable virtual personas.

Human shortsightedness had shredded that protective veil, just as it accelerated the spreading deserts and rising seas.

Slowly she raised her head and stared back, not through a protective veil of hair this time, but with frank acknowledgment of his gaze.

The trees rustled despite the lack of breeze as branches bent downward, forming a protective veil.