half-veiled

Sometimes in a crowd, at table, in the living room in the evening, or at cards, she would gaze at him through half-veiled lashes when he was unaware, until she was certain she saw the knowledge in his eyes and face.

CHAPTER XXVI 2010

Her quick glance at his face was caught and held by his half-veiled look, so lazy and warm.

Western Man Janet Dailey 2011

Her quick glance at his face was caught and held by his half-veiled look, so lazy and warm.

Western Man Janet Dailey 2011

Something of the man he had once been stared out from those sunken eyes, half-veiled by a shimmer of mist the color of tarnished gold and clotted blood, and the torment in them was unbearable.

THE RIVER KINGS’ ROAD Liane Merciel 2010

Her breast began to heave with agitation and her cheeks, half-veiled by tumbled hair, flushed pink.

The Night Of the Solstice L.J. SMITH 2010

[Looks straight before her, with a half-veiled look.]

The Master Builder 2008

[Looks straight before her, with a half-veiled look.]

The Master Builder 2008

Fortunately, however, as the carriage drew up, Modeste saw an old man, in a blond wig frizzed into little curls, whose calm, plump, smooth face wore a fatherly smile and an expression of monastic cheerfulness which the half-veiled glance of the eye rendered almost noble.

Modeste Mignon 2007

And first the widow, with a sorrowful countenance, though half-veiled, pitying her daughter more than herself.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

Our democracy is in peril, not only from the obvious causes of corporate corruption and special interest groups but also from the truths that still lay half-veiled, such as the apparent theft of our last Presidential election.

Preparing for Leadership 2006