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Usage examples of mantle.

When Alec had finished, he pulled on his leather breeches beneath his nightdress, wrapped a mantle about his shoulders, and returned to his corner of the bunk, sword hidden between the pallet and the wall behind him.

Eliason cast his mantle over his head and averted his face, an elven response to grief.

Theodore de Beze wore the dress of a courtier, black silk stockings, low shoes with straps across the instep, tight breeches, a black silk doublet with slashed sleeves, and a small black velvet mantle, over which lay an elegant white fluted ruff.

Helvis murmured drowsily as he threw a mantle over his shoulders, then leaped up in alarm when he shouted for the buccinators to sound the alarm.

Then they clad her in fine linen, and put over it gorgeous, broidered garments, and a royal mantle of purple, and her own jewels which she had worn in bygone days, and with them others still more splendid, and threw about her head a gauzy veil worked with golden stars.

Prudence rose from the pool, donned her kilt and mantle with trembling hands, took up her calabash, and disappeared into the bush.

A wide white mantle trimmed with oak leaves should be worn across the breast, the ends ornamented with wide yellow cambric fringe, which should be fastened at the side with a blue rosette, and trail made nearly long enough to reach the floor.

Though the peaks and high valleys still wore their smooth mantles of white, spring was lurking in the Carag Huim.

His neatly combed white hair hung about his shoulders like a silken mantle.

She had the figure of a nymph, and the new fashion of wearing a mantle not having yet reached her village, I could see the most magnificent bosom, although her dress was fastened up to the neck.

The maiden fidgeted, she plucked at the ends of the wimple that lay about her shoulders, she smoothed the rich cyclas of her mantle and finally she arose and bowing before the princess asked if she might go and bid farewell to her mother.

Rimmer Dall and the Shadowen had discovered that Paranor was back and that Walker had accepted the mantle of Allanon.

The actions of Yakim Douan, using the soul stone to steal the bodies from unborn babies so that he could live on in a new corporal mantle, mocked the murals depicting the Abellicans of the north as heretics for using those same stones.

It was the mantle which my grandfather Wore in his high prosperity, and men Envied his state: so may they envy thine.

Under this mantle was a garment of fox-skin, fastened round the waist, and coming down to a point in front.