Bridal accessories

Usage examples of veils.

He was a settler, swathed in what must have been more than a hundred veils, and right on his counter he had his own set of electronic relay stations to let him talk with customers.

It grew in his present, and went on far into what was, in one sense at least, Timmins' future-the four hundred thirty local years, marked off by as many veils, that had passed since the beginning of the Year One in which Timmins had come to Azlaroc.

Here came a couple who had evidently settled here ten or fifteen years ago, walking in that time's fashionable nudity and draped with ten or fifteen of the sealing veils of Azlaroc.

The veils of only ten or fifteen years were not enough to warp a settler out of phase with this year's visitors, so the four people meeting in the narrow passage had to give way a little on both sides, as if they were in a full sense contemporaries.

Azlaroc was a world strange enough for anyone, even without the veils that yearly formed and fell from space.

He, fenced by twenty veils into her past, must be somewhat colorless and flat in her perception.

Twenty of the impenetrable veils of Azlaroc were bound around the atoms of this man's body, yet now he had decided to depart.

Don't ask me how they know what's going on out in space where the veils form, but they almost always start getting ready to broadcast their spores no more than three or four days ahead of time.

It would be easier by far for a member of either group to communicate with his own yearmates at Azlaroc's antipodes, than to force a single bit of information through more than four hundred veils to a person with whom he shared the plaza.

With optimum performance from the system, the effective distortion caused by veils is reduced by a factor of approximately five.

Now, when sixty-five more veils have been added, I doubt if we'll even be able to see them, but we can try.

He had thought it would be wise to read up a little on the veils and the other peculiarities of this world before starting on the job that he had tentatively agreed to do.

The blurred grains must be older matter, squeezed by a great number of veils till they were hard for modern eyes to see.

The second most likely possibility, in my opinion, is that they reached the surface of the pulsar and were not protected by the veils as this one seems to have been.

All the veils of Azlaroc were evidently shielding this recorder when it reached the pulsar's surface, and they might be enough to protect a man as well.