How To Use Mantle In A Sentence

  • Many scientists think that hotspots mark locations where diapiric convection cells, called mantle ‘plumes’, rise beneath lithospheric plates.
  • Police claim to have dismantled 12 networks of traffickers so far this year. Times, Sunday Times
  • The equipment had to be dismantled and reassembled at each new location.
  • Ochre and red rippled across the male's mantle, in the delicate, complex traceries of which only males were capable.
  • In her dying depositions she accused Osio of having pushed her in; and there seems little doubt that he did so; for while she was struggling in the water, he disengaged his harquebuss from his mantle and struck her several blows upon the head and hands. Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 The Catholic Reaction
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  • Congenital brain anomalies like microcephaly, abnormal cortical mantle formation, agenesis of the corpus callosum have been reported.
  • Oh, these professionals!" ingeminated Captain Pond again, eyeing the breach and the dismantled married quarters. Merry-Garden and Other Stories
  • Cake/dessert, or sweetmeat baskets are extremely popular and apart from the converted liners already mentioned, dismantled epergnes and converted goblets are the two most common deceptions.
  • The core mantle boundary is a complex and dynamic area that churns and chugs as the liquid iron core roils at the bottom of the rock-like mantle.
  • At the end of an hour, the ascent becoming every moment more abrupt, we had passed the belt of trees and bushes, and reached the smooth and scoriaceous cone, which, during the rainy season, appears from the bay to be covered with a velvety mantle of green. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860
  • They were mantled with black and blue marks that advertised the weight and number of blows so shielded from his head and face. THE TEARS OF AH KIM
  • The relative abundance of these elements is increasingly being used to trace chemical processes in the mantle, crust, and oceans.
  • You had to rebush the rod if the slack was excessive, or rebore the big end if it was split - all of which you hoped could be deferred until the entire affair had to be dismantled for white-lead testing.
  • The turbines would have a lifespan of 25 years and after that period would be decommissioned and dismantled.
  • We watched the building vanish under a mantle of thick grey smoke as the fire swiftly moved through it.
  • McCain makes the Bush daughters look demure, which is a shame: we had so much hope for them taking over their father's mantle, but McCain looks like she will be fun too. Paul Jenkins: Republican Circus: Extended Engagement
  • Chris dismantled the bike in five minutes.
  • By comparison, the mantle of the giant squid, Architeuthis dux, is not known to attain more than 2.25 metres. Boing Boing: March 30, 2003 - April 5, 2003 Archives
  • Much of the island is a mantle of ice more than half a mile thick.
  • For three years, the seismometers recorded how seismic waves from hundreds of earthquakes worldwide bounced through the mantle.
  • This toy machine gun dismantles easily.
  • Like all the seafloor, they are created at midocean ridges, where two plates diverge and hot lava wells up from the underlying mantle.
  • He wears the mantle of office comfortably and looks as if he is enjoying himself. Times, Sunday Times
  • Earthquake waves travel slowly through the hotter regions of the mantle and speed up in colder, denser areas.
  • The circulation of fluids that forms this new class of hydrothermal vents is driven by heat generated when seawater reacts with mantle rocks, not by volcanic heat.
  • At his lunch with Reagan and Bush just after the speech, one American asked, “Did we hear that word dismantle right?” American Sketches
  • On the other hand, if an oceanic plate made of dense basalt hits a low-density continental plate then the former will plunge underneath, pushing back into the hot, convecting mantle.
  • BRITAIN'S air pollution monitoring network could be dismantled under government plans to remove the obligation on councils to produce detailed reports on local air quality. Times, Sunday Times
  • You can dismantle the preposterous plot with a small spanner. Times, Sunday Times
  • It would deformalize meetings, dismantle the wall that town and village boards erect and transform what is today a lecture by politicians into a conversation among people. The Buffalo News: Home
  • His chasuble was a full and heavy mantle in which red and white could be seen in transparency, and gleaming with jewels . . . Archive 2007-11-04
  • Nowadays, partisans on one side of the aisle mercilessly assail their opponents as nefarious ideologues bent on the destruction of the nation, while claiming the sacred mantle of the Founding Fathers as exclusively their own. Morgan Pehme: Strip Politics: A Cure for Incivility
  • It is also possible that upper mantle mafic plumes acted as a heat source for, and made some contribution to, the melting of more felsic rocks in the lower crust.
  • You can dismantle the preposterous plot with a small spanner. Times, Sunday Times
  • The Coalbrookdale Company had smelted its last iron in the area by 1821, and that year had dismantled the Resolution steam engine that pumped water up the dale to power the furnace bellows.
  • This marker stains follicle mantle cells in routinely fixed and decalcified paraffin-embedded tissues.
  • The writer's body finds itself dismantled, brutalised, shook up, helpless, useless puppet, prey to disorganised ideas.
  • Anita Dung is Obama's Joseph Goebbels. How dare these Marxist traitors dismantle our Constitution, and our First Amendment! ! !
  • With the extraneous materials strained from the rock mantle, there was still a good core of iron, nickel, zinc, and copper.
  • There were also two dummy rocket propelled grenades and a dismantled self-loading rifle.
  • A small stream was mantled over with green mosses.
  • The equipment had to be dismantled and reassembled at each new location.
  • A prairie fire had swept away all traces of vegetation and there was a black, funereal mantle as far as the eye could reach in every direction.
  • When a clown and an evangelic preacher wander into Ted's domain of the W.C. he forces them to dismantle their public masks and face the consequences of their beliefs and actions.
  • The gurglet and mantle were passed to him, and soon he and his follower were feeling their way upward. The Prince of India — Volume 01
  • Lady's mantle (alchemilla) is another smotherer. Times, Sunday Times
  • Glasgow has broadened its appeal since taking on the mantle of European City of Culture in 1990.
  • I took off the brown mantle and my guild cloak, put my boots on a stool near the brazier, and stood beside him to dry my breeches and hose, asking if all those who came this way on monomachy stopped to refresh themselves with him. The Shadow of the Torturer
  • He supervises the kids as they dig up and dismantle these mines in order to sell them on the underground arms market for food and other necessaries.
  • Mantle from an oyster with pink nacre on its inner shell will produce a pink pearl, even if it's put into an oyster with a black shell. PEARL COVE
  • We already possessed Pera; the Golden Horn itself, the city, bastioned by the sea, and the ivy-mantled walls of the Greek emperors was all of Europe that the Mahometans could call theirs. The Last Man
  • Movement along the P detachment may have resulted in the final separation of the crust and the exposure of mantle at the sea floor in the south of the study area, although here the nature of basement has not yet been determined.
  • From 1991 to 1998, the UN Special Commission (UNSCOM) identified and dismantled almost all of Iraq's prohibited weapons.
  • Many researchers believe there was a collision that occurred one billion years ago between a dwarf planet in the Kuiper Belt known as Haumea and another object that caused Haumea's icy mantle to break into a dozen or so smaller bodies, including 55636. Space Tourism, Space Transport and Space Exploration News
  • Within a superb trio of opening tracks, he takes on the mantle of Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson and 1999-era Prince.
  • These once supplied the great lava flows that built a shield volcano, long since ruined and dismantled by time. THE EARTH: An Intimate History
  • Nabobs, who for years had been purring about back areas in expensive cars, dressed up like movie-kings, were suddenly debussed and dismantled. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, June 18, 1919
  • There was no electric in the house only gas, so the house had a gas mantle in each room and a small fire place.
  • As I'm going back very soon, I'll send my chief engineer to oversee the dismantlement.
  • Charlotte Gainsbourg, who carries so well the mannish shirt mantle passed down by her mother Jane Birkin, works the look perfectly.
  • It's bad enough that George Bush has been willing, and able, to challenge and dismantle some of the most basic tenets of our American democracy - the system of checks and balances, an independent judiciary, and the right of a people to be free from government intrusion and persecution - but to see England fall prey to the same simple-minded authoritarian leanings is simply very sad. 01/16/2006
  • On the walls of his bed-room and over the mantlepiece was a text emblazoned, on which at evening and morning he could look, which read: The Grand Old Man
  • Many experiments suggest that ancient subduction-related metasomatism affected OIB mantle sources long before island magmatism.
  • Then their is the equally magnificent mantle of St. Henry's wife, Empress St. Cunegond, which was also used as a cope in Bamberg Cathedral. Catholic Bamberg: The Vestments of Pope Clement II and Other Treasures from the Diocesan Museum
  • Like the beekeeper taking his stand in the garden, it requires the prolonged use of miniaturized verbal trestles that can be dismantled once the swarm has gone.
  • The protest camp there was dismantled in a night raid earlier this week and it is now off-limits. Times, Sunday Times
  • I had opened it at a Gnostic Hymn that told of a certain King’s son who, being exiled, slept in Egypt—a symbol of the natural state—and how an Angel while he slept brought him a royal mantle; and at the bottom of the page I found a footnote saying that the word mantle did not represent the meaning properly, for that which the Angel gave had the exile’s own form and likeness. Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies
  • Then the economics changed, and in 1983 the refinery was decommissioned, dismantled and shipped off somewhere.
  • Both mantle-style and open-flame lamps are intended to remain lit; if the fire goes out, the lamps must be relit manually. Burning Affection for Park Slope's Gas Lamps
  • Duma Key is not just a novel for the fans, but a cathartic response from King over his near-death accident in 1999; no doubt he relived his agonizing recovery while writing about Freemantle, and yet it is because of this firsthand experience, that Duma Key feels much more personal and empathetic. 2010 February 15 « The BookBanter Blog
  • The problem with all these calculations is they assume a homogenous chemical mantle.
  • The incandescent gas mantle, developed by the German von Welsbach in 1885, greatly increased illuminating power and for a time helped fight off competition from electric lighting.
  • The corals and the madrepores that formed 180 million years ago the limestone of the ancient sea bottom, today are the base of the thin layers that keep alive this wide wooded mantle.
  • She certainly changed her apparel and came forth in a ‘rich mantle and surcoat of purple velvet furred with ermines’.
  • The second was in this rather audacious attempt to claim the mantle of the trade unions. Times, Sunday Times
  • Leif gave her a gold finger-ring, a Greenland wadmal mantle, and a belt of walrus-tusk. The Northmen, Columbus and Cabot, 985-1503
  • Squids on earth still have a vestige of a shell inside their mantles.
  • The Japanese empire was quickly dismantled.
  • Thereafter, he systematically dismantled the Leicestershire attack with selective strokeplay of the highest class. Times, Sunday Times
  • She took down an inkily glazed cast from the mantlepiece and passed it to him.
  • Even now, as she rested and waited for the signal to begin the retreat, the color on Guo's mantle did not even fade slightly.
  • My mom's family planned their yearly escape from the heat—to the beach, where they would at least have the Fremantle doctor in the evening.
  • After the film wrapped, DeMille had the set dismantled and buried.
  • Family GuyFamily Guy inherited the dysfunctional family mantle - or perhaps mantlepiece, since it's still all suburban - and pushed the boundaries further than The Simpsons has in a long time, frequently offending at least eight separate special interest groups in one 23 minute show. The Flintstones celebrate 50 year anniversary with a Google doodle
  • In addition, to the active stockpile of 5,113 warheads, there are somewhere around 8,000 to 9,000 "obsoleted" nuclear weapons - weapons that will not be kept in good repair, but will be dismantled eventually and their 30 tons or so of weapons grade metal recovered; and another 38 tons of military plutonium that has never been fabricated into a weapon. CounterPunch
  • His long-nailed, perfectly manicured white hands clutched at her, dragging the mantle off her face.
  • The nashi grow in tight clusters of 8-10 fruits, and each cluster needs to be carefully dismantled and the fruits clipped off one at a time, then carefully packed.
  • The second was in this rather audacious attempt to claim the mantle of the trade unions. Times, Sunday Times
  • Sixth, the medical category, such as baby incubator, kit, homothermal mantle and operational tank.
  • place the mantle of authority on younger shoulders
  • Thus, without any change in the composition across the boundary, the phase change produces a temporarily layered mantle.
  • In keeping with the law, he also would have taken the mantle of leadership in the family. Christianity Today
  • We're in the process of shutting down our long term compost utilization project and we need to dismantle the lysimeters that are installed below the plow layer throughout the field.
  • Should the unit be dismantled for descaling the heat exchange surfaces, take a good look at the mist eliminators and either clean or replace them. CR4 - Recent Forum Threads and Blog Entries
  • A northern mid-latitude scene consisting of craters, intercrater plains, and mantled material is visible in this HiRISE image. Tucson Weekly
  • Each mountain, as if its firm and immutable form were flexible and varying, altered in appearance, like that of a shadowy apparition, as the position of the strangers relative to them changed with their motions, and as the mist, which continued slowly though constantly to descend, influenced the rugged as pect of the hilts and valleys which it shrouded with its vapory mantle. Anne of Geierstein
  • One's mantle falls on somebody.
  • But parts of the eighteenth-century limestone doorcases were ‘not entirely original’ which would ‘allow for a more flexible approach to either demolishing them or allowing them to be dismantled for re-use elsewhere’.
  • He had made up his mind to see her advance with a measured step and a demure solemnity of countenance; he had felt sure that her face would be mantled with the smile of conscious saintship, or else charged with denunciatory bitterness. Adam Bede
  • The fireplace was carefully dismantled piece by piece .
  • Taking on Garvey's mantle, Marley turned increasingly to Africa as his fame grew, addressing apartheid with the same withering scorn as American artists like Stevie Wonder and Gil Scott Heron.
  • According to Pete Clarke, the tour will then explore the ganister loading siding between Three Springs and Saltillo and the path of the now-dismantled spur truck to the former North American Refractories Company quarry above Three Springs.
  • And of course, as Indian food continues to gain in cachet you will also see many chefs who have graduated from American culinary institutes getting the star power-mantle of a celebrity chef.
  • The scaffold of the temporary stands which run down one side was being dismantled. Times, Sunday Times
  • The dismantled keel, boom and mast were also loaded on the vehicle. Times, Sunday Times
  • The mantle mineral group in Tibet has great significance in mineralogy an d geodynamics.
  • From the wrapped waistcloths of the Egyptians to the tunics, mantles and togas of the Greeks, men enjoyed untrammeled freedom.
  • Sad-colored mantles the goodmen wore, but their doublets were scarlet, and with their green waistcoats and red caps, surely the Puritan men were sufficiently gayly dressed to suit any fancy save that of a cavalier. Sabbath in Puritan New England
  • The roof of the tent begins to glow, like the mantle of a gas lamp turned up very slowly.
  • 'Or I might have brought my portmantle, with some things.' The Hand of Ethelberta
  • But they were so attentive to us that there was no opportunity of stealing a thing until, having left Giton with them, I craftily slipped out of sight and sneaked aft where the statue of Isis stood, and despoiled it of a valuable mantle and a silver sistrum. Satyricon
  • In subtle and not-so-subtle ways the mantle was passed from one generation to another.
  • He swept his finger along the surface of the mantle and turned to her, grinning.
  • Ladies 'Mantle, Alchemilla -- a common inconspicuous weed, found everywhere -- is called Great Sanicle, also Parsley-breakstone, or Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
  • Here, in the scrubby land mantled in the after glow of a soft sunset, springbok leapt and Cape mountain zebra grazed even as herds of black wildebeest stared at us intently and then galloped away.
  • In 1996, the Scotsman simply steamrollered him, before Ebdon, who abandoned academia to serve his apprenticeship at Kings Cross Snooker Club, finally took on the mantle of the master.
  • As mayor, Brown must dismantle his lucrative law practice, which the financial report shows he began in April 1977.
  • Thereafter, he systematically dismantled the Leicestershire attack with selective strokeplay of the highest class. Times, Sunday Times
  • Trouble is, the thickness of the frosty mantle covering the Arctic Ocean has diminished by about 40 percent in the last four decades.
  • The shy emerald mantles the valleys and fledges the heights; the pussy-willows tremble by lake and stream; the wild crocus brims the hollows with a haze of violet; trailing his last ragged pennants of snow on the hills, winter makes his sullen retreat. The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance
  • The trace element and isotopic characteristics of these dykes imply derivation from an asthenospheric mantle source, which is likely to occur only as a result of regional lithospheric extension.
  • Frankly I couldn't have wished to inherit the mantle off a nicer man. Times, Sunday Times
  • The eastward or southeastward mantle flow resulting from the collision of IndiaEurasia probably pushed rollback of slabs east and southeast to East Asian continent, further causing back arc spreading.
  • Mantle had become a folk hero by then and Maris naturally became the villain.
  • You'll need to dismantle the phone to access the card though, as it's hidden behind the battery.
  • And the burgesses that were in their gowns and mantles had so great heat that they called their servants and bond men, of whom there were many that day in Amiens, and affranchised them for to bear their clothes into the city of Amiens. The Golden Legend, vol. 2
  • It emphasises that the old corroboration regime has been dismantled.
  • Surely, even though it is necessary to question and dismantle canons, it is not an overstatement to claim that classical literature is the cornerstone of Western literature and society.
  • From the wrapped waistcloths of the Egyptians to the tunics, mantles and togas of the Greeks, men enjoyed untrammeled freedom.
  • The composition of these minerals is known from a handful of outcrops containing inclusions of mantle material.
  • The cowrie concentrates its secretion along the sides of the mantle, forming a shell like a loosely clenched fist.
  • An effect of Brechtian alienation occurs, and the naturalization of genre is dismantled.
  • The stress in the whole collection falls on the classical mantles, and suits with waist-length coats have been combined with A-like silhouettes.
  • Currents beneath the plates move the plates in different directions and driving all this is radioactivity deep in the earth's mantle which keeps the under layer - the asthenosphere - molten.
  • The Earth has an iron core surrounded by a dense layer called the mantle, which is capped with a thin rind of rocky crust.
  • Scientists and administrators bickered over whether this should be a continuing program in ocean-bottom drilling or a one-shot drive to the mantle.
  • Marc walked by me and leaned upon the mantle with his familiar feline grace that never ceased to impress me.
  • When one pagan group was ordered to dismantle a totem pole over which libations were poured, they simply placed a bust of Lenin on top and continued as before.
  • At the very least, any melt must represent a minute fraction of the mantle from which it formed.
  • Magmas erupted in continental volcanic arcs typically contain components from many sources in the crust, lithospheric mantle and asthenosphere.
  • Hmmmmmmmmmmm. I wonder if they would "unretire" Mantle's No. 7 for Mauer? Original Signal - Transmitting Digg
  • Researchers spotted a mass concentration, which they call a mascon — dense stuff that welled up from the mantle, likely in an impact.
  • City officials originally requested that owners of these establishments voluntarily dismantle the offending structures.
  • A moment of historical awareness would mantle his cheeks with a blush of shame.
  • _Enter Aimwell in a riding-habit, and Archer as footman, carrying a portmantle_. The Beaux-Stratagem
  • But of the elderly women who came there, not many had so far changed the fashion of their youth as to cover the white "mutch" with anything but a handkerchief in the summertime, or with a shawl, or with the hood of the mantle of scarlet or grey duffel, when the weather was cold. Allison Bain, or, By a Way she knew not
  • The space shuttle has a rough landing, a superstorm fries the Roman Coliseum, and the solar winds dismantle the Golden Gate Bridge.
  • Frankly I couldn't have wished to inherit the mantle off a nicer man. Times, Sunday Times
  • You can dismantle the preposterous plot with a small spanner. Times, Sunday Times
  • But the intention is clear - to be blunt about the scale of the problem but claim the mantle of fairness. Times, Sunday Times
  • It was positively with trepidation that he presented himself before her very soon after his arrival; and an undeniable blush "mantled" his cheek -- if a blush can be said with any propriety to mantle the male cheek --- when he marched into the drawing-room, where she was doing a dainty bit of embroidery, and with much simplicity and directness said, "You said I might come, you know, and I have come; and I begged of Ethel to come too, but she could not leave my aunt," before he had so much as shaken hands. Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885
  • These glide over a weak zone in the mantle known as the asthenosphere, and the relative motion between plates causes most large-scale tectonic structures.
  • Matt Suhu on Jul 21, 2008 they wont use the penguin because nolan has said publically that he doesnt like the penguin character if you read the story on the website in the address listed a few comments back nolan says that the riddler is the next villian .. howevere whon knows how reliable that website .. for all we know its all BS so who knows. if nolan decides that he doesnt want to do a third batman i dont think that they should do a third .. but then again whoever takes up the mantle will hopefully do it justice. Contest: Where Could The Dark Knight Go Next? « FirstShowing.net
  • Although the skirts are short, the look is warmed up by small down jackets, light sheepskin blousons, boots and also pretty, small mantles in cable knit.
  • But when we called the Livermore director, he said the X-ray laser had been dismantled and sold for scrap two months ago. The Omega Theory
  • But when, at last, she slowly lifted her eyes and held their gaze steadily, it was his own eyes that dropped, his own cheek that mantled red. Chapter 2
  • We must all be vigilant before our fair and equitable system of health provision is dismantled before our eyes.
  • There is a vast amount of uranium still left in the earth's crust and mantle; there are four billion tonnes of the stuff dissolved in the oceans. Eating the Sun: How Plants Power the Planet
  • What I am mainly trying to do is to dismantle the granitelike assumption in our political culture that American conservatism is an offshoot or cousin of fascism. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
  • I'll share one with you: Needing a piece of wood to fill the gap between a screen door and a spring hasp if you don't know what that is, I can't explain it to you, I dismantled a bookcase, removed the back, stacked the books on the floor, and cut off a teensy-tiny piece of fiberboard, solving that problem. How to Make an Atom Bomb While Your Wife's Away
  • Usually I wouldn't even see the dust on the piano/the mantlepiece / the windowsills.
  • Through continued intelligence - sharing, we can disrupt terrorist plots and dismantle terrorist networks.
  • Although a landed gentleman and a locally venerated "pir," or Sufi saint (an inherited mantle), Fahim is a totally secular, moderate, pragmatic social democrat as well as a mystic poet. Pakistan’s New Prime Minister?
  • All cephalopods have one pair of unciliated ctenidia within the mantle cavity, with the exception of Nautilus, which has two pairs of ctenidia.
  • But his solo tour also fits the message that only he has the strength and will to dismantle the Washington machine. Times, Sunday Times
  • I think he barracks for those awful Fremantle Dockers.
  • The Contract also aims to dismantle the Department of Education and transfer its funds to families and local school boards.
  • When you are speaking with honest country people about the beauty of their fields, do not talk about "Flora spreading her fragrant mantle on the superficies of the earth, and bespangling the verdant grass with her beauteous adornments. Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! : Helps for Girls, in School and Out
  • The drawing room overlooks the front garden and features an original fireplace with a marble mantlepiece and cast iron inset.
  • They must be dismantled on an impermeable surface to avoid contaminating the ground.
  • The result is that these same elements are relatively depleted in the mantle above the core. THE EARTH: An Intimate History
  • He lowered his arm slowly, cautiously, extending it well away from him, and the bird mantled as it shifted its weight to balance on his wrist.
  • American protectorates in Cuba, Panama, Haiti, Nicaragua, and the Dominican Republic were modified or dismantled.
  • Shortly after the three of us set upon his dorm room to dismantle it, a small but sharp twinge of pain registered just under my left kneecap.
  • Do not mow weedy sites or dismantle woodpiles, which provide them safe shelter in the off-season.
  • In the name of simplicity, he should also dismantle national insurance and create a single, comprehensive and comprehensible tax-collecting apparatus. Times, Sunday Times
  • The spatial and chronological evolution of the Canary Islands' volcanism is due to eastward progression of the slow-moving African plate over a mantle plume.
  • Destroy that mantlet before these strangers can land! The Conquering Sword Of Conan
  • Her face mantled with shame.
  • Near sundown we passed down the one long street, all battered and dismantled, which is all that is left of the old town. AN AUSTRALIAN IN CHINA
  • They had found an ox-cart, and mounted the mantlet on the wheels, great solid disks of oak. The Conquering Sword of Conan
  • Then he took the perfumed linen sheet, wrapped it round him as a mantle, and turned away, to the wanness of the chill dawn.
  • The collegians were clad in mantles of husi, which is a thin fabric like picote, [23] inclining toward violet, with insignia of red braid extending to the feet. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 13 of 55 1604-1605 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of The Catholic Missions, As Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing
  • An alternative explanation of such uplifts involves the effects of density changes in minerals in the upper mantle.
  • Missing elements, including ornate fireplace mantles, intricately carved woodwork, beveled mirrors, and hand-made tiles and ornamental andirons, had to be recreated from photographs.
  • Who are you?" is Vic's big question to Montoya -- and it may, as has been speculated, lead to Montoya assuming the mantle of the Question -- but it could be applied to almost every major character in the series, either because of their emotional/spiritual crises (Ralph, Black Adam, Renee, Booster) or because of some literal physical transformation (John Henry's steel skin, Adam Strange's eyelessness, Mr. Mind's reported evolution). Week 20: Language Is a Virus from Outer Space
  • One genus is predatory, trapping small invertebrates under the fringe of the mantle, and then eating the captured prey.
  • So far, no politician has emerged as a leader of the Tea Party movement – and the question of just who might eventually take up the mantle is a hot topic on the bus. Looking for a leader, Tea Partiers issue invite to Palin
  • Mantle compositions that could yield both mare basalts and highland rocks are consistent with the constraints on the interior outlined earlier.
  • Freemantle and the newly ordained Richard Grey remained Crewe's closest confidants through the last years of his life.
  • The scrumpy middle-aged ones who've begun to sag have nice houses with a couple of tasteful pictures on the mantlepiece and a fresh rug, showing off a house that looks as lived in as the bodies they're revealing. Oscar Nominee Roundup: The Queen and The Departed
  • I wear the mantle of The Dude proudly. The Sun
  • It remains to be seen after May's parish council elections who will be willing take on the mantle of chairman and continue with the next stage of the transformation.
  • But by running for and taking the mantle of chief justice, Moore accepted the code of ethics that came with the job.
  • Wooden double doors lead through the drawing room, which is a similar size and features an impressive fireplace with a marble mantlepiece, brass grate and marble hearth.
  • Some of the prisoners did find time to make musical instruments such as violins from the dismantled hulls of sunken boats and hard wood salvaged from collapsed buildings.
  • In mesophyll cells, chloroplasts are dismantled in an early phase of senescence, while mitochondria remain functional.
  • We were well aware before the conflict began of the determined efforts made by the regime to dismantle the weapons, to hide them.
  • The two men sat on the front steps at "Elm Bluff", and as Prince's eyes wandered over the exceeding beauty of the "great greenery" of velvet lawn, the stately, venerable growth of forest trees, wearing the adolescent mask of tender young foliage, the outlying fields flanking the park, the sunny acres now awave with crinkling mantles of grain, he sighed very heavily at the realization of all that adverse fortune had snatched away. At the Mercy of Tiberius
  • He bonked over the next ascent, losing more than a minute, and the overall leader's mantle, to The Falcon.

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