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Usage examples of masked.

His bold, Hanshire arrogance masked a consuming concern, that his plans would be balked despite the extreme measures taken.

Shadow masked him, while his ears rang and burned to the language of wind, singing litanies over bared granite.

The masked bargeman leaned on his pole, and looked thoughtfully about him.

The fisherman bent his head aside, and regarded the figure of his masked companion, for a moment, with indifference, betraying neither curiosity nor feeling at his address.

According to the newspaper, the police defined the robber as the same masked man who had entered a brokerage office two days ago and forced the owner to hand over a batch of securities that were in his desk drawer.

Spoleto Festival, Buccaneer Days was a nonstop extravaganza of parties, masked balls, parades, street fairs, a beauty pageant, and nightly sea battles.

I closed my eyes and opened them again, imagining myself in an earlier time, when masked women in wide cloaks stepped into gondolas, the gondolas that now rode emptily in their moorage in the wide basin to our left.

Lal already had one of the tents nearly erected, and Moreen watched his deft fingers at work, with an anxiety none the less because it was masked.

Gondas were clustered in flotillas along either bank, filled and overfilled with masked and costumed figures, standing shapes balanced precariously against the chop where the two currents met.

After that came pyramids and crystals, positive and negative ion generators, a grow-your-own-clone booth, a tarot reader, a palmist, a noodle stand, cheap body organs and cyberware, another noodle stand, soykaf, a Sidewalk Doc, and a group of masked men big enough to be orks, all wearing the black hoods, jumpsuits, gloves, and boots of the Sanitation Department.

Corrupt, wise, weary old Earth fought with masked weapons, since only hidden weapons could maintain so ancient a sovereigntysovereignty which had long since lapsed into a titular paramountcy among the communities of mankind.

It was erect and vaguely manlike, but covered with a pelt of long grayish fur, and it had long prehensile fingers and a face like a masked monkey.

Three similarly masked blind men stood nearby passing out printed leaflets about cultural recidivism and the coming Dark Age.

The masked and cloaked lady floating in the air just above their reach, reclining at her ease on nothing, was all too familiar.

George Anthony was the masked criminal who had hired the Rego mob to steal the alloy powder.