The mourners, which usually would be brought in by the thousands, shuffled up a marble staircase beneath chandeliers draped in black gauze.

The man who had been sleeping on the black-canopied bed reached a hand through the black gauze.

A noise filtered through the black gauze.

A chaplet of large grains hung upon her arm, and her face was covered with a veil of thick black gauze.

A sheer black gauze slid over lighter beige gauze for an airy sheath.

Each face, of course, was concealed by a black silken gauze of airy weight that provided total concealment.

He could hardly see for the veil of black gauze that seemed to fill his head.

Traditionally, Saudi women wear black cloaks that cover the entire body, sometimes including a thin black gauze covering the face.

But only her bare shoulders are shown, and she stands behind sheer black gauze and a trio of metal stalks.

She went veiled, a cloud of black gauze obscuring her fea-tures.