Do we say vail or vale

vail 368 occurrences

I wore a long lacy vail of net.

When "the vail of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom," then that distinction from the Gentile, in which the Jew had gloried, ceased, and the partition wall between them was prostrate for ever.

Did that old partition wall survive the shock, that made earth quake, and hid the sun, burst graves and rocks, and rent the temple vail?

Kay Boyle (Kay Boyle Vail) (A); 10Jan64; R329826. 365 days.

Kay Boyle (Kay Boyle Vail) (A); 10Jan64; R329827.

VAIL, LAURENCE.

SEE Vail, Kay Boyle.

SEE Beard, Charles A. VAIL, KAY BOYLE.

Kay Boyle (Kay Boyle Vail) (A); 10Jan64; R329826. 365 days.

Edited by Kay Boyle, Nina Conarain & Laurence Vail.

Kay Boyle (Kay Boyle Vail) (A); 10Jan64; R329827.

VAIL, LAURENCE.

SEE Vail, Kay Boyle.

SEE BEARD, CHARLES A. VAIL, CURTIS C. D. Lessing's relation to the English language and literature.

Curtis C. D. Vail (A); 31Aug64; R343806.

SEE Vail, Kay Boyle.

SEE Vail, Kay Boyle.

VAIL, CURTIS C. D., ed.

Faith Ely Vail (W); 22Jul65; R365447.

VAIL, FAITH ELY. Scientific German for science and premedical students.

SEE Vail, Curtis C. D., ed.

VAIL, KAY BOYLE. Monday night.

VAIL, MARGARET.

Margaret Vail (A); 17Mar72; R524726.

In this respect the Levitical law was the same as the masonic, which would not allow any 'to go in unto the vail' who had a blemisha blind man, or a lame, or a man that was broken-footed, or broken-handed, or a dwarf, &c....

vale 1391 occurrences

Come forth, Worm of the silent valley, to thy pensive Queen.' The helpless Worm arose, and sat upon the Lily's leaf, And the bright Cloud sailed on, to find his partner in the vale.

In fact, the greatest charm in this secluded vale was its pleasant climate all the year round.

Situated upon a high level bench, with the waving gold fields sloping up from it and the green squares of alfalfa and orchards below, it appeared a landmark from all around, and could be plainly seen from Vale, the nearest little town, five miles away.

I'll have him drive me to-dayover to Vale, an' then to Huntington.

At Vale he ordered the car stopped at the post-office, and, telling Lenore he might be detained a few moments, he went in.

Thou first and chief, sole sovereign of the vale!

Afar, below, in airy music ring The bugles of my host; the column halts, A wearied serpent glittering in the vale, Where rising mist-like gleam the tented camps.

The swelling music of their vesper-hymn Is rising fragrant from the shadowed vale Familiar to the welcoming gates of heaven.

Into the vale, dusk with the shadow of death, With silent lips and ringing mail we rode.

Now in the early morning, when we had gone for the fuel, we had kept to the upper skirt of the valley where the rock of the nearer hill came down into the spongy ground, but now we struck right down into the middle part of the vale, making a way amid the mighty fungi to the pit-like opening that filled the bottom of the valley.

but that there might be danger, even though it were bright day; and a most happy ruling it proved; for, a little past the middle of the afternoon, we heard them shouting at the other end of the valley, and, not knowing but that they were in need of assistance, we ran with all haste to discover the reason of their calling, passing along the right-hand side of the blackened and sodden vale.

Yet by no means could I be sure that it was not a sudden fancy, born of the eeriness of that desolate looking vale; the more so as I was like to be deceived because of the uncertainty which the light of the moon gives.

Among the other gods were Haad, son of Odin, blind but strong; the silent and strong Vidar; Vale, the archer; Ull, the fast ski-runner, and Forsete, the son of Balder, who settles disputes between gods and men.

The gods awake to new life and join Vidar and Vale, and the sons of Thor, Mode and Magne, who have survived the great destruction and who have been given their father's hammer, because there is to be no more war.

She sang Moore's Melodies a great deal; and when she warbled, "Sweet vale of Avoca!

Instead of longing to rest in the "sweet vale of Avoca," she was heard musically chasing "Figaro here!

Along the margin of th' Atlantic main, Rocks pil'd on rocks yterminate the scene; Save here and there th' incroaching surges gain An op'ning grateful to the daisied green; Save where, ywinding cross the vale is seen A bubbling creek, that spreads on all sides round Its breezy freshness, gladding, well I ween, The op'ning flow'rets that adorn the ground, From her green margin to the ocean's utmost bound.

Gaius Flaminius, with the Etruscan army, was still for the moment at Arezzo, intending to move from that point towards Lucca in order to protect the vale of the Arno and the passes of the Apennines, so soon as the season should allow.

Philip did not disturb the Roman main army in its retreat, but turned by forced marches against the Aetolians and Athamanians who, in the belief that the legions were occupying the attention of the king, were fearlessly and recklessly plundering the rich vale of the Peneius, defeated them completely, and compelled such as did not fall to make their escape singly through the well-known mountain paths.

Vale Pennsylvania digest, 1682 to date.

Vale Pennsylvania digest, 1682 to date.

Peter Wells (A); 15Jan71; R498508. WELLS, RONALD VALE.

Ronald Vale Wells (A); 21Jun71; R508137.

The fifty old sachems in the vale of Onondaga would decide more wisely and more justly than the English nobles.

Tayoga had received a letter from Colonel William Johnson that morning, informing him that all was well at the vale of Onondaga, and the young Onondaga was pleased.

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