mantle
noun
a loose, sleeveless cloak or cape.
had mantled
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past perfectof mantle.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Three days ago the flush of health had mantled her cheek, and brightened in her eye, and now, how ghastly and changed she was!
From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 6 June 1848 by Robert Taylor Conrad
He had sunk once more upon the ground, panting like a fish; and I saw rising in his face the same dusky flush that had mantled on my father’s.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 5 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
Faith shrunk back abashed, the flush which had mantled over her brown cheek deepening to a tint like that of blood.
From The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish by James Fenimore Cooper
The color which had mantled Lynde's cheeks in the first surprise and pleasure of meeting his friend had passed away, leaving, indeed, a somewhat haggard expression on the young man's countenance.
From The Queen of Sheba & My Cousin the Colonel by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
When he was giving back the little box, his hand was shaking, his temples and forehead were moist, his eyes had dimmed, and over his cheeks had mantled a blush, mottled like marble.
From Yama: the pit by Bernard Guilbert Guerney
