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mantle

noun as in cloak

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He also scripted that song in the Lovers Rock film, so I grabbed the mantle and just ran with it.

One idea holds that plates are just a byproduct of burbling convection cells deep in the mantle.

I think that’s the only thing missing on the mantle for me, personally.

This 10-inch digital picture frame will fit right in on any mantle, bookshelf, or nightstand.

These deepest, highly prized diamonds are also priceless scientifically, offering a rare window into the lower mantle.

We arrived to the din of a party in full swing: a band, multiple kegs of beer, dancing, foosball, and mantle diving.

Having tonally redefined rap, he was ready to claim the mantle of one of the greatest musical pioneers of all time.

Question those taking on the mantle of victimhood and you are immediately cast as some kind of aggressive, unfeeling oppressor.

“Somebody suggested [we give him] a $1,000 baseball signed by Mickey Mantle [in exchange for the URL],” Robinson told me.

Even at the latter stages Simon and Ryan took over the mantle and it became a little dark.

Ripperda's eye fell upon the mantle,—it was discoloured a dark red in many places, he nodded his head, and the man withdrew.

He thrust the Cardinal's mantle into it, and stood over the smouldering cloth, till the whole was consumed to ashes.

The night at last had imposed herself on the singers, and they had sunk down to sleep under the mantle of her silence.

The earth had donned her mantle of brightest green, and shed her richest perfumes abroad.

His mantle raised at the shoulder disclosed a muscular arm covered with circlets of gold.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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