Noun : the mantle of darkness.    From Dictionary.com. 

Verb (used without object) : The champagne mantled in the glass.    From Dictionary.com. 

It's called "mantled" because it looks as if it's just draped over, or mantling, the topography underneath.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tucson Weekly] Reference

O'er rivers, and meadows, and snow-mantled ground.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home Lyrics] Reference

Shelby's color mantled and ebbed, leaving him white.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Henchman] Reference

And the bright flush of joy mantled high on her cheek.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sanders' Union Fourth Reader] Reference

And let me see the rose's hue that mantled every cheek.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Hanging Fork and Other Poems] Reference

The sun-down had mantled Ben Nevis with night vol. iv.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference

Plunges the passionate youth into the night-mantled wave.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846] Reference

A dull flush mantled Alicia's pale cheeks as she thus spoke.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jane Allen: Right Guard] Reference

Has mantled in a robe of white the field of strife and death.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Hanging Fork and Other Poems] Reference

Has sifted through the slats up there, and mantled as it fell.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Hanging Fork and Other Poems] Reference

Her hands flew very rapidly -- her cheeks mantled into a rich glow.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference

Her skin was dark but the cheeks were mantled with a wonderful color.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peggy Stewart: Navy Girl at Home] Reference

The central mantled figure is called the "Conquistador," or conqueror.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Art-Lovers Guide to the Exposition] Reference

The king started up, and an angry blush mantled his face for a moment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia] Reference

Some ice-bound streams and ponds were thickly mantled in the white covering.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ruth Fielding at Snow Camp Or, Lost in the Backwoods] Reference

Lianor smiled tremulously through her tears, and a blush mantled to her cheeks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dyke Darrel the Railroad Detective Or, The Crime of the Midnight Express] Reference

France the snows that had mantled the ground for months were disappearing fast.    From Wordnik.com.  [The King's Warrant A Story of Old and New France] Reference

Aberdeen, he beheld flying toward him a dark-mantled figure: he knew it at once.    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 1, August 1850 of Literature, Science and Art.] Reference

A hue, delicately rich as the tinted leaves of orange blossoms, mantled her cheeks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Under the Rose] Reference

For just an instant she held back slightly, and the color swiftly mantled her cheeks.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Smiles' A Rose of the Cumberlands] Reference

A vivid flush mantled the clear, dark skin, and the lustrous eyes drooped in confusion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dyke Darrel the Railroad Detective Or, The Crime of the Midnight Express] Reference

The mask became half-quizzical, half-friendly, as her cheeks mantled beneath his regard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Under the Rose] Reference

What need of further adornment when she was mantled and crowned with a glory of golden hair?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference

"Sheriff Timberlake!" he growled between his clenched teeth, as a dark scowl mantled his brow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jack Wright and His Electric Stage; or, Leagued Against the James Boys] Reference

The young man was silent, and a flaming blush mantled for a moment his delicate, innocent face.    From Wordnik.com.  [Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia] Reference

By the flicker of the candle, I saw that a bright flush mantled her cheek, as she spoke rapidly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tory Maid] Reference

The rich red mantled her cheeks; the gray eyes smiled up frankly into his; she held out her hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flamsted quarries] Reference

Anxiety mantled on his wrinkled brow; a foreboding of danger cast its prophetic gloom over his spirits.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alvira, the Heroine of Vesuvius] Reference

Dickersons 'was mantled in shadow, and those two houses were the only ones in sight of the Atterson place.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hiram the Young Farmer] Reference

He could not see her face, but he perceived that a quick flush mantled her neck and delicately rounded cheek.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Smiles' A Rose of the Cumberlands] Reference

Europe at the present time is the ivy-mantled towers and walls of these feudal castles, now falling into ruins.    From Wordnik.com.  [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference

So the time passed, and Wednesday came at last, a true winter's day, with snow-mantled earth and keen, hard frost.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aunt Judith The Story of a Loving Life] Reference

He resumed his walk rapidly; a delicate blush mantled his cheeks, and all his features indicated profound emotion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia] Reference

Stormly Park had an air of waiting; a certain grim expectation lurked behind the over-mantled windows and closed doors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker] Reference

Who would not linger at the sight of Furiani, the most important of these villages, its ivy-mantled towers crumbling to ruins? —.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition.] Reference

The fosse was wide and deep, girding the four-square castle, mantled on its outer walls by dense ivy, where a few birds twittered.    From Wordnik.com.  [Doom Castle] Reference

There, in the Green Mountains of Vermont, swept by the free air, and mantled by the pure snow, the meek Quaker communed with the strict.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens] Reference