mantle
noun
a loose, sleeveless cloak or cape.
is mantling
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present progressiveof mantle (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Into your Soul may truculent Daemons pass All hugger-mugger in that dun Morass, But while the Rouge is mantling to your Cheek, Nothing will chide you in your Looking-Glass.
From The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Jr. by Wallace Irwin
Beware, beware, thou gallant ship! there's many a rock ahead, And the mist is mantling round thee, like a shroud around the dead.
From Narratives of Shipwrecks of the Royal Navy; between 1793 and 1849 by William O. S. Gilly
While boyish blood is mantling, who can 'scape The fascination of thy magic gaze?
From Venus in Boston; A Romance of City Life by George Thompson
