mantled

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It is the portrait of Queen Louisa of Prussia A dark expression mantled Napoleon's face, and, bending an angry glance on Duroc, he said, "It is well known that you were always foolishly in love with the Queen of Prussia, and, according to your statement, one might believe there was no woman in the whole world so beautiful as she is."

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  1. Provided with a mantle or a mantelet; protected. They haue a Fort very well pallisadoed and mantelled with barkes of trees. Capt. John Smith, Works, I. 120. They built two houses for them he daily expected from England, a faire Well of fresh water mantled with bricke. Quoted in Capt. John Smith's Works, II. 84.

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  • On second thought, maybe something bigger … A golden-mantled ground squirrel? —  McCovey Chronicles
  • Indeed, the border going westward comes in three stages: the Indus; the unruly crags and canyons that push upward to the shaved wastes of Central Asia, home to the Pashtun tribes; and, finally, the granite, snow-mantled massifs of the Hindu Kush, transecting Afghanistan itself. —  doggdot.us
  • It is the portrait of Queen Louisa of Prussia A dark expression mantled Napoleon's face, and, bending an angry glance on Duroc, he said, "It is well known that you were always foolishly in love with the Queen of Prussia, and, according to your statement, one might believe there was no woman in the whole world so beautiful as she is." —  Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia
  • All that its eagles beheld in their flight Was yours from the deep to each storm-mantled height! —  The Poetry of Wales
  • Out among the dancing shadows that flitted among the snow-mantled bushes and heavily laden trees a hundred and fifty eyes glared in the brooding darkness--as though all the wolves in the forest were gathering there. —  The Drama of the Forests Romance and Adventure
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  1. from Middle English mantled; from mantle + ed.
 

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