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- adjective Without a
mantle .
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Examples
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Thus the friends, who had met with such glee, parted in a very different mood; Lord Woodville to command the Tapestried Chamber to be unmantled, and the door built up; and General Browne to seek in some less beautiful country, and with some less dignified friend, forgetfulness of the painful night which he had passed in Woodville Castle.
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Thus the friends, who had met with such glee, parted in a very different mood; Lord Woodville to command the Tapestried Chamber to be unmantled, and the door built up; and General Browne to seek in some less beautiful country, and with some less dignified friend, forgetfulness of the painful night which he had passed in Woodville Castle.
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With her unmantled neck, and bosom white and bare?
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She saw his figure hesitating a moment, as he faced the oncoming guests, such a flood of femininity, unmantled now and unveiled, sparkling in rainbow hues of silks and tulle and gauze that he had never before faced and never would again.
The Fortieth Door Mary Hastings Bradley
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The second day of Boehm's stay with me, he unmantled his apparatus and asked me to submit to a further examination.
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It was almost as unforgettable as the sight which caused it; the word "sight" being here used in its vernacular sense, for Penrod, standing unmantled and revealed in all the medieval and artistic glory of the janitor's blue overalls, falls within its meaning.
Penrod 1914
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Thus, all unmantled, they came before the King, while all the nobles present held their peace, greatly pleased at the sight of these handsome and well-behaved young men.
Four Arthurian Romances de Troyes Chr��tien 1914
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It was almost as unforgettable as the sight which caused it; the word "sight" being here used in its vernacular sense, for Penrod, standing unmantled and revealed in all the medieval and artistic glory of the janitor's blue overalls, falls within its meaning.
Penrod Booth Tarkington 1907
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With her unmantled neck, and bosom white and bare? [pe]
The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806
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With her unmantled neck, and bosom white and bare?
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage George Gordon Byron Byron 1806
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