mantlet

• “Madame Ellen Gowan was indeed dressed delightfully today in dove gray jersey wool, with a mantlet of rich black velvet lined with white fur.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Dressmaker

• “Thirty of you, with axes, and make kindling wood of that mantlet.”

  The Conquering Sword of Conan

• “Destroy that mantlet before these strangers can land!”

  The Conquering Sword of Conan

• “The ram was released, and the mantlet began to recede from the gate as swiftly as it had advanced.”

  The Conquering Sword of Conan

• “They had found an ox-cart, and mounted the mantlet on the wheels, great solid disks of oak.”

  The Conquering Sword of Conan

• “But, with a deep-throated shout, the mantlet was pushed to the wall, and a heavy, iron-tipped boom, thrust through an aperture in the center of the shield, began to thunder on the gate, driven by arms knotted with brawny muscles and backed with blood-thirsty fury.”

  The Conquering Sword of Conan

• “Faith, with her quiet self-respect, and the largeness learned from sorrow, was almost capable of not weeping that she had left at home her apple-green Poland mantlet and jockey bonnet of lilac satin checked with maroon.”

  Springhaven

• “Out upon the moor, where he was now, no shelter of any kind encouraged him; no mantlet of bank, or ridge, or brush-wood, set up a furry shiver betwixt him and the tatterdemalion wind.”

  Mary Anerley

• “His first round hit the shot trap under the gun mantlet, ricocheted downward, killed the driver and bow gunner, and set the Mark V on fire.”

  Steel Victory

• “The Jumbo carried about six inches of armor up front (the lower hull was some - what thicker than the upper hull) and, combining armor and the gun mantlet, thirteen inches of protection on the turret front.”

  Steel Victory

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