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  • Lady's mantle's broad, soft, scalloped leaves and sprays of tiny chartreuse flowers sharply contrast with the galaxies of blue stars that rise up through its foliage to bloom and above.

    Suzy Bales: A Forgotten Bulb: Fool's Onion 2009

  • Everyone in the Republican party wants to hold Ronald Reagan mantle's, just as the Democrats want to hold John F. Kennedy's mantle.

    CNN Transcript Jan 30, 2008 2008

  • There was a veil on the mantle's hood that she could fling across her face when she wished, but Ryder had no fez to complete the deceptive outline of his masquerade.

    The Fortieth Door Mary Hastings Bradley

  • Across his breast he knotted this mantle's two cords of gleaming bullion, one tassel a due trifle higher than its fellow.

    Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story Max Beerbohm 1914

  • Just north of the city shone the resplendence of the ice-cloaked rocks and waterfalls of Fall Creek Gorge, like a massive garniture emblazoned on the mantle's skirt.

    The Secret of the Storm Country Grace Miller White 1912

  • Across his breast he knotted this mantle's two cords of gleaming bullion, one tassel a due trifle higher than its fellow.

    Zuleika Dobson 1911

  • Life, and between her mantle's purple folds gleamed the eyes of her snake girdle.

    The World's Desire Henry Rider Haggard 1890

  • This has in turn slowed or quickened the mantle's push up from below.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010

  • The lower mantle's minerals can retain about a tenth as much water as the rocks above, Murakami's team finds.

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] 2010

  • Until recently, researchers generally thought that the Earth and the other planets of the solar system were chondritic, meaning that the mantle's chemistry was thought to be similar to that of chondrites -- some of the oldest, most primitive objects in the solar system.

    Earth News, Earth Science, Energy Technology, Environment News 2010

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