1 The tune said, more or less, how Eve, gathering her robes about her, stands reluctant still to let her dewy mantle fall.
2 Reason had thrown her mantle on a holly hedge.
3 The Victorian mantle with the bead fringe.
4 But for me, in my impenetrable mantle, the safety was complete.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis StevensonContext Highlight In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE 5 His mantle and hood were of the best Flanders cloth, and fell in ample, and not ungraceful folds, around a handsome, though somewhat corpulent person.
6 On the right shoulder of the mantle there was cut, in white cloth, a cross of a peculiar form.
7 The eight-pointed cross of his order was cut on the shoulder of his mantle in black velvet.
8 A cloak or mantle of coarse black serge, enveloped his whole body.
9 As he spoke these last words, he raised himself, and grasped the Palmer's mantle with a look of the most earnest entreaty.
10 Just as Rebecca had dropped over her fine features a screen of silver gauze which reached to her feet, the door opened, and Gurth entered, wrapt in the ample folds of his Norman mantle.
11 They were therefore in universal use among Prince John's courtiers; and the long mantle, which formed the upper garment of the Saxons, was held in proportional derision.
12 And thou, who canst guess so truly," said Brian de Bois-Guilbert, dropping the mantle from his face, "art no true daughter of Israel, but in all, save youth and beauty, a very witch of Endor.
13 The earth had donned her mantle of brightest green; and shed her richest perfumes abroad.
14 Half in my dreams I was dimly conscious that something was going on in the room, and gradually became aware that my wife had dressed herself and was slipping on her mantle and her bonnet.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In III. The Adventure of The Yellow Face 15 She was deadly pale and breathing fast, glancing furtively towards the bed as she fastened her mantle, to see if she had disturbed me.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In III. The Adventure of The Yellow Face