What is "cowled"

Usage examples of "cowled".

When he had opened the shutters, I had seen, clear and sharp, hovering in the moonlight, a cowled figure, wrapped in shadow, peering in at me from its perch in midair.

It had been so real that the reality of the room within which I lay had be­come dwarfed, overshadowed by the cowled one's presence.

The cowled figure, from dream and vision spawned, and it spoke echoing words in my mind while the wind blew at its cowl, whipping and snapping.

I told him about the dreams and the apparition at the window at Morrlta, and the demands the cowled one had made of me while he and Tyith had battled for our lives.

I won­dered how extensive the cowled one's ability to control material reality truly was.

And might not the cowled one, seeing us routed, re­double his efforts?

If I turned back, perhaps the cowled be­ing would be satisfied, perhaps not.

Perhaps it is because of Tyith, perhaps Issa, perhaps Wirin, perhaps the cowled one, or Dellin, or the trouble you caused me with the Day-Keepers.

I was glad he had no remembrance of my meeting with the cowled one, of the bargain I had made.

One last scene showed a procession of torch-bearing cowled figures crossing a huge central plaza in front of the temple.

It took its time in arriving, a huge transport truck loaded with cowled figures who took positions around Helva's base, elbow to elbow.

Fortunately every wearer in the selected segment was converging on one location, crossing a huge plaza, crowded with gyrating, swaying cowled figures, their robes flapping around them as they approached the wide deep steps that led up the side of the dead volcano.

He came out into the corridor dressed in a snowy white robe, deeply cowled at the back.

The corpse, carried on a board, was wrapped in a ragged brown blanket, and the richly robed and cowled priests of Chaldan, the Arendish God, chanted an age-old hymn that had much to do with war and vengeance, but little to do with comfort.

Relg, his cowled leaf mail shirt covering his head and shoulders like lizard skin, climbed down from the lead wagon and only perfunctorily answered the greetings of Barak and Mandorallen.