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They are used in preparing themantles for incandescent gas lights.
The Mashonas manufacture a coarse cloth made from the bark of the baobab tree, the size of blankets, and dye them brown; they are very strong and are used as mantles by the natives; they are made by hand without any machinery.
Attired in mantles all the knights were seen, That gratified the view with cheerful green: Their chaplets of their ladies' colours were, Composed of white and red, to shade their shining hair.
The women were expected to provide, with their looms and their needles, the heraldic surcoats, the scarves and banners, and the mantles for state occasions.
The mantles of our kings and peers, and the furred robes of the several classes of our municipal officers, are the remains of this once universal fashion.
In what precise way the beards were sewed on the mantles we are not exactly informed.
From the entries of scarlet cloth given to the nobility for mantles on this occasion, we find that duchesses had thirteen yards, countesses ten, and baronesses eight.
Amadis and Agrayes proceeded till they came to the castle of Torin, the dwelling of that fair young damsel, where they were disarmed and mantles given them, and they were conducted into the hall.
Behind, and to the right and left of it, the gentle murmur of the sister streams sounded like ghostly whisperings of evening sprites, busy spreading their grey mantles over the distant landscape.
Two gentlemen of the Court evidently, for Abra's quick eye had caught a glimpse of richly chased sword-hilts, as the wind blew the heavy, dark mantles to one side.
But when I saw their wornmantles and hungry faces, I had a feeling something like compassion.
In the evening he and Ursus put on Gallic mantles and went to the house of Miriam, where Peter was living.
And taking Gallic mantleswith hoods, they passed through the garden door to the street.
The Mohammedan women, wearing long bloomers made exceedingly full, and white mantles resembling sheets draped over their heads and falling loosely around their bodies, looked like ghosts as they walked through the streets.
The mantles which cover them are of Oriental brocade wrought in gold and silver patterns, and the belts, swords, and daggers are adorned with sparkling gems.
It is also stated that the Duke of Berry, the youngest son of that monarch, purchased nearly ten thousand of these same skins from a distant country in the north, in order to trim only five mantles and as many surcoats.
A hundred robes of white wool were given to the priests, one hundred collars of gold to the valiant warriors, and blue mantles without number to the ladies.
What is this nameless presence that mantlesall things with divinity?
Incandescent mantles heated by methylated spirit are also largely used, and provide a light decidedly superior to gas and nearly equal to acetylene.
The feather mantles are made on a frame similar to that on which the peruke makers work hair; they spread the feathers in the same manner and fasten them on old fish nets or old mantles of mulberry bark.
They also work similar designs on mantles and coverings which they make with the bark of the mulberry tree.
Du Pratz thus describes the art in Louisiana: If the women know how to do this kind of work they make mantles either of feathers or woven of the bark of the mulberry tree.
Hence the importance of measuring the light from lamps, jets, and mantles of various kinds, and testing the efficiency of shades and reflectors.
Just when a bulb or a mantle should be dismissed from service depends partly on the rate of deterioration, and partly on the prices of bulbs and current, of mantles and gas.
Nearly all the thorium used for mantles is found in the monazite sands of the provinces of Bahia and Espirito Santo, along the coast of Brazil.
When this gas burns at a fairly high temperature, as does Dowson gas, it gives with thorium mantles a good light, so as to be an all round rival of electricity.
While the Welsbach mantles have been constantly improved in quality, and given new and inverted forms of special value, the inventors in the field of electric lighting have not stood still.
The high dignitaries who composed his retinue wore mantles of black velvet, and were entirely without arms.
Attired in mantles all the knights were seen, That gratified the view with cheerful green: Their chaplets of their ladies' colours were, 350 Composed of white and red, to shade their shining hair.
Neither the majestic Alps, the glowing Pyrenees, nor the commanding Apennines ever impressed us like these wild, wrinkled, rock-bound mountains in their virgin mantles of frost.
Choice furs, such as delicate and well-cured skins of sable and fox, can be had here at reasonable rates, made up in the form of simple mantles and robes.
On rainy nights, in the shelter of the porch they shook out their cowled Arabian capes of coarse weave, an inheritance from their forefathers, or the feminine mantles in which they were wrapped, as garments of modern elegance.
Febrer detected them in the dim light by the odor of hemp emanating from their new sandals, and from the coarse wool of their mantles and Arabian capes.
O'er all thy works let cleanliness preside, Child of frugality; and as the scum Thick mantles o'er the boiling wave, do thou The scum that mantles carefully remove.
Young blood," said Varney, "mantles in your veins.
I like to see the rosy checks, where the warm blood mantles in the superficial veins, and all is loveliness and life.
Over these cotton garments they wore mantlesmade of skins, which were considered to be the clothing best suited to the country.
They woremantles of furs, and carried bows and arrows.
The priests garbed as ancient warriors joined in, their nasturtium-hued mantlesand golden harness aquiver like sinuous flames.
After them came other lamas, in golden harness and mantles the flame hue of nasturtiums.
The masked lamas and those in harness and flame-colored mantlesfiled toward the stairway.
Women of the city, dressed in black and blue silks, with black mantles over their heads, come out in the afternoon to picnic among the trees.
If they see us looking at them they draw the corners of their mantles across the lower part of their faces; but when they think themselves unobserved they drop their veils and regard us curiously with lustrous brown eyes.
As they saw the photographic camera pointed at them they laughed, and crowded closer together, and drew the ends of their dark mantles over their heads.
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