| Wrapped in fleecelike mantles of bacteria, the worms live in papery tubes, which they burrow into the sides of deep-sea geysers. |
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| Since gas mantles made with thorium are radioactive, their use has been phased out. |
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| On Whitsunday all Kilton crowded behind us into the little chapel and saw the wooden statues wearing real mantles of bright wool for the day. |
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| We have tried and tried again at picking up the mantles of authority only to find them alternately too big and too small. |
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| Even so, it took another 20 years or so before electric lights had largely replaced gas mantles in American homes. |
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| From the wrapped waistcloths of the Egyptians to the tunics, mantles and togas of the Greeks, men enjoyed untrammeled freedom. |
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| The lophophore, a ciliated, tentacular organ for feeding, of varying three-dimensional morphology, is suspended between the mantles. |
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| The rare earths once had a valuable function in gas mantles and lighter flints. |
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| The Pilgrims poured into the great gaping hole Nukurren was tearing in the Utuku center, ululating, their mantles blue and black. |
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| In the painting Mark stands in a pulpit, preaching to a group of oriental women swathed in white mantles. |
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| The stress in the whole collection falls on the classical mantles, and suits with waist-length coats have been combined with A-like silhouettes. |
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| She could see nothing for miles but more stony peaks glittering in their mantles of silver and white. |
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| Some gardeners bemoan showy colchicum's handsome, foot-long, leek-like foliage, which mantles the ground in spring before withering indecorously in early summer. |
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| Under a microscope, aquarists saw developing eyes and pulsing mantles. |
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| The highest mountains were cloaked in mantles of snow and ice with glaciers perched in the hanging valleys as though suspended by some invisible thread from the summits. |
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| During a night watch, while the male godwits were incubating, it was noted that the females stood sleeping on the poles with their bills tucked backwards in their mantles. |
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| Squids on earth still have a vestige of a shell inside their mantles. |
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| But there is also a beauty of expression that mantles the whole work. |
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| Although the skirts are short, the look is warmed up by small down jackets, light sheepskin blousons, boots and also pretty, small mantles in cable knit. |
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| Unique habitats are found on alvars, extremely level expanses of limestone with thin soil mantles. |
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| Reddish-orange material deposits, which resemble mineral mantles known as desert varnish, started appearing on the tumbled flasks. |
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| Ice mantles that formed on top of dust grains are photoprocessed by the secondary ultraviolet field in cold and dense molecular clouds. |
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| The Irish have, from the Scythians, mantles and long glibs, which is a thick curled bush of hair hanging down over their eyes, and monstrously disguising them. |
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| Little specializes in building custom furniture and cabinetwork, including tables, chairs, bookcases, entertainment centers, fireplace mantles and bars. |
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