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- verb Present participle of
vail .
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Examples
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Are angels vailing clouds, or roses blown] [Hammer: angels vailing clouds] [Warburton exercised his sarcasm on this] I know not why Sir T. Hanmer's explanation should be treated with so much contempt, or why _vailing clouds_ should be
Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies Samuel Johnson 1746
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Pre vailing wages have risen and he expects them to go up again this year.
Developing Nations Fight Inflation Alex Frangos 2011
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There is another lesson to be learned from this passage, and it is quite similar to the vailing issue and the discourse over women's attire which ultimately died in the 70s:::Women are responsible for and control the fate of mankind.
Dart's Rant Of The Day: What's The Deal With Bloggerhouse? Dart Adams 2009
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There is another lesson to be learned from this passage, and it is quite similar to the vailing issue and the discourse over women's attire which ultimately died in the 70s:::Women are responsible for and control the fate of mankind.
The Woodwork and Out Of... Lindsay Stewart 2009
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This class was at least significant as a counter-vailing impact to 2 above.
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There is another lesson to be learned from this passage, and it is quite similar to the vailing issue and the discourse over women's attire which ultimately died in the 70s:::Women are responsible for and control the fate of mankind.
Meetup Roll Call 2006
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These words thus spoken, Pantagruel, vailing his cap and making
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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These words thus spoken, Pantagruel, vailing his cap and making
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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It was a delicate piece of navigation, made more challenging by having to account for pre-vailing winds-which, it turned out, were pretty fierce near Lago DeBacco.
Demons Of Air And Darkness DeCandido, Keith R. A. 2001
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By the cunning of reason CST carried within it two contradictory tendencies - the one, segregationist; the other, its counter-vailing trend, an integrating impulse.
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