Vailing

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 ❋ Samuel Johnson (1746)

Pre vailing wages have risen and he expects them to go up again this year. ❋ Alex Frangos (2011)

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 Adams (2009)

This class was at least significant as a counter-vailing impact to 2 above. ❋ Unknown (2007)

These words thus spoken, Pantagruel, vailing his cap and making ❋ Unknown (2002)

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. ❋ DeCandido, Keith R. A. (2001)

By the cunning of reason CST carried within it two contradictory tendencies - the one, segregationist; the other, its counter-vailing trend, an integrating impulse. ❋ Unknown (1997)

The private sector will need to be made aware of the principles of anti-dumping and counter - vailing actions so as to face the challenge of increased interna - tional trade from an informed base. ❋ Unknown (1994)

Colonialism of a Special Type (CST) carried within it two contradictory tendencies - the one, segregationist; the other, its counter-vailing trend, an integrating impulse. ❋ Unknown (1994)

The principal counter-vailing tendencies to integration were the economic interest of the dominant White capitalist classes - in mining and agriculture - and the sectional interests of the Afrikaner petty bourgeoisie. ❋ Unknown (1994)

Realism and naturalism forged ahead in all the arts in self-conscious opposition to whatever was the pre - vailing “idealistic” art, penetrating first neo-classicism, then romanticism. ❋ FRITZ NOVOTNY (1968)

The pre - vailing idea that poverty is the result, not of social and economic dislocations, but of a failure of character, the vogue of classical economics with its emphasis on laissez-faire, and the rise of evangelical Christianity with its strong impulse toward social reform, all con - tributed to the dominance of the idea of voluntary association in philanthropy which, perhaps, was also suggested by the joint stock company. ❋ MERLE CURTI (1968)

Roman Catholicism may have gained considerable strength from the fact that it set itself so consistently against the very things that were to become the pre - vailing tendencies of the nineteenth century. ❋ HERBERT BUTTERFIELD (1968)

An ancient custom of 'vailing (_trailing_) the staff' through Bradford, or, as an alternative, fighting the shoemakers of that town, produces a laughable episode. ❋ Arnold Wynne (N/A)

Eternally the ridiculous pretence of being "noble" by family, seems to claim for obscure foreigners some sort of advantage over the plain untitled Englishman; but eternally the travelled Englishman recollects, that, so far as this equivocal "nobility" had been really fenced with privileges, those have been long in a course of superannuation; whilst the counter-vailing advantages for his own native aristocracy are precisely those which time or political revolutions never _can_ superannuate. ❋ Various (N/A)

Without vailing the character of the voluptuous queen, or concealing the poetical aspects of her romantic history, he delineates the events in her life, for which she is now chiefly remembered, with a naïve simplicity that becomes piquant from its apparent artlessness. ❋ Various (N/A)

Now I feel assured that the chief of the 'Shrouded Gods' is Duty, vailing her features with a silver-lined cloud, scorning to parley, but whose unbending finger signs our way -- an unerring pillar of cloud by day, of fire by night. ❋ Augusta Jane (1867)