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We also had some bizarre costumes like a white-veiled transvestite bride (no husband in sight), and some popular costume cuties such as a New York City fireman -- who never used his hose on the hydrants, thank dog -- a ladybug, an angel, and one dog even came as a Metro card.
Wendy Diamond: Lucky Diamond Guest Spot on Celebrity Apprentice 2008
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What have you to ask, O sacred, white-veiled maid?
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In the midst of it one of the white-veiled sisters approached us with a very mysterious air, and put down her white veil close to our ears and whispered.
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Sisters, with 6 white-veiled Novices and 5 Postulants -- in all, 97 members.
The Life of the Venerable Mother Mary of the Incarnation A Religious of the Ursuline Community
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Christine reappears in her blue dress, and white-veiled, peaked cap.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866 Various
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Sunday clothes, but regal in his pride in the little, white-veiled figure at his side, was awaiting him.
Amarilly of Clothes-line Alley Belle Kanaris Maniates
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Her vivid imagination went beyond the little work-room with its white-veiled women to those hospitals back of the battle line where mutilated men lay waiting for the compresses and the wipes and the bandages, men in awful agony --.
The Tin Soldier Temple Bailey
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Something always held her back -- some vague blend of noble and ignoble motives, of pride and masochism and noblesse oblige and the Spartan Boy and Kate Barlass and a quite unreasonable feeling of hostility towards the white-veiled, white-coated young woman who hovered all the time behind Mr. Hinchley waiting for him to say "Double-ended spatula" or "Pink wax."
Mrs. Miniver 1939
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While Laurie listlessly watched the procession of priests under their canopies, white-veiled nuns bearing lighted tapers, and some brotherhood in blue chanting as they walked, Amy watched him, and felt a new sort of shyness steal over her, for he was changed, and she could not find the merry-faced boy she left in the moody-looking man beside her.
Little Women 1921
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As brides white-veiled that come to marry earth, 65
Sonnets-Ad Innuptam 1918
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