Her complexion was a rich and mantling olive, and when watching the glow upon her cheeks I could almost swear that beneath the transparent medium there lurked the blushes of a faint vermilion.
During the festival, I had noticed several young females whose skins were almost as white as any Saxon damsel's; a slight dash of the mantling brown being all that marked the difference.
For He that flung the broad blue fold O'er-mantling land and sea, One third part of the sky unrolled For the banner of the free.
Marion read the note, the colour mantling faintly in her cheek the while.
Such furry greenness mantling the rude peelings and healing the fissures of their shattered shells.
It was turned from the light, or the rich color that was mantling it would have puzzled him, and might have inspired hope.
Her back was toward Gregory, but he could see the hot blood mantling her very neck.
Before he was on his feet he heard the lock click in her door, and with a horrible doubt, an impotent rage, and a mantling shame stifling him, he went upstairs and from her distant room she heard the bolt click in the door of his room.
Kenyon could not see even the grim cast of decision mantling Grant's face.
She turned round quickly, extending, even eagerly, her hand with mantling cheek.
With such mighty sheen And mantling crimson, in two listed rays The splendours shot before me, that I cried, "God of Sabaoth!
Escap'd; and, in her vesture mantling me, Made promise of the way her sect enjoins.
When, by some delicate allusion or attention, he let her perceive that she was in his thoughts, a mantling color overspread her features, and then gave way to paleness, and a manner which attracted universal remark.
Her warm color fled, but it flooded back, rich, mantling brow and cheek and neck.
Dark clouds were mantling the desert like rolling smoke from a prairie-fire.
The old man ceased; ere I could speak, his face Grew more than mortail fair: a mellow light Mantling around him fill'd the shady place And while I wondering stood; he vanished from my sight.
Through the mantling vines Mr. Nibby could witness the smiles this really ingenuous young creature was prepared to lavish on the susceptible chef because already aware of her power.
The increased importance given to the mantling in later times may have been due to the disappearance of the housings of the knight's horse and his surcoat, which originally displayed his arms and colours.
The mantling of later times displayed the heraldic colours of the knight, when, being clad in plate armour, there was no other means of displaying them except on the shield.
Helen had in vain attempted to stop him, while, with an arch glance at her mantling blushes, he half whispered these insidious questions.
Then the lady, with a mantling visage and flashing eye, violently closing the door, was again lost to their sight.
It was a radiant face, one of those that seem to have been touched in their cradle by a sunbeam, and to have retained all their brilliancy and suffused and mantling lustre.
She looked up at him, startled, a flushmantling her fair cheeks.
They tell us that love in his fairy bower, Had two blush-roses of birth divine; He sprinkled the one with a rainbow shower, But bathed the other with mantling wine.
Then first carnations learned to speak And lilies into life were brought; While mantling on the maiden's cheek Young roses kindled into thought.
Yet within this, mantling the remotest depths, there is a sheen of light, a gleam of hope and faith.
Farther away there is floated over the mountains a miraculous bloom, a bloom like that upon virgin fruit; and still more remote, upon the far sea, there is a dream of amber mantling the sleeping blue.
The torn and abraded hill-sides have lost their harsh outlines, and a veil of kindly mantling green has spread itself over all.
More than one woman had been seen labouring under loaded baskets near the local game dealer's, and these were innocently covered with mantling cresses, and so at the time escaped suspicion.
The mantling flush left her brow, and the startled eyes looked calmly into the young man's face.
And yet, Mrs. Dexter, though I observed you closely, I did not see the indignant flush on your face, that I had hoped to see mantling there.
Just then we observed the color mantlingto the tawny hair of Ole Hansen.
Soon the shroud of Winter would be woven about them, flake by flake, mantling them all in its cold, white tomb.
