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  • In a few minutes afterwards the rearward party arrived and dismounted, and Redgauntlet himself entered the barn with the green-mantled maiden by his side.

    Redgauntlet 2008

  • Chattering apes shrieked their displeasure at his intrusion into their green-mantled walls.

    Conan the Avenger Howard, Robert E. 1968

  • And hope, green-mantled, leads the way by the walls of the City of Light.

    Leaves of Life For Daily Inspiration Margaret Bird Steinmetz

  • Desmond flung the whip over the hedge into a green-mantled pool, and stood, his cheeks pale, his fists clenched, his eyes flaming, before the astonished man.

    In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India Herbert Strang

  • Roses here and there sprang from the grass, and a narrow box-edged path led to a small door in a low green-mantled wing, with its one square window above the porch.

    The Return Walter De la Mare 1914

  • Most comfortless riding it is, with a horse of such kangaroo disposition, till I do get to the sight of my old ever-young green-mantled mother again; but for an hour there, it is a real blessing to me.

    The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II Carlyle, Thomas 1883

  • Such were Clara's inward interjections while poor Willoughby burned himself out with verdigris flame having the savour of bad metal, till the hollow of his breast was not unlike to a corroded old cuirass, found, we will assume, by criminal lantern-beams in a digging beside green-mantled pools of the sullen soil, lumped with a strange adhesive concrete.

    The Egoist George Meredith 1868

  • Such were Clara's inward interjections while poor Willoughby burned himself out with verdigris flame having the savour of bad metal, till the hollow of his breast was not unlike to a corroded old cuirass, found, we will assume, by criminal lantern-beams in a digging beside green-mantled pools of the sullen soil, lumped with a strange adhesive concrete.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

  • Most comfortless riding it is, with a horse of such _kangaroo_ disposition, till I do get to the sight of my old ever-young green-mantled mother again; but for an hour there, it is a real blessing to me.

    The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II. Thomas Carlyle 1838

  • At the best, moral stagnation ensues -- and the spirit becomes, like "a green-mantled pool," the abode of reptiles.

    Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 John Wilson 1819

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