I watched the good citizens from behind a mantlet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shadow Games]

"Destroy that mantlet before these strangers can land!".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Conquering Sword of Conan]

` Destroy that mantlet before these strangers can land! '.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Conan Chronicles]

The barrel of the KV-I's cannon was thickest at the mantlet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Panzer Aces]

Thirty of you, with axes, and make kindling wood of that mantlet.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Conquering Sword of Conan]

From this height Simon could see the crowds of men behind each mantlet.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Saracen: Land of the Infidel] Reference

Cut down a big ironwood, they did, an™ put ˜er on wheels, with a mantlet to cover.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chosen Of The Gods]

Though he who fears death lie in the heart of the valley, no mantlet shall shelter him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Danish History, Books I-IX] Reference

They had found an ox-cart, and mounted the mantlet on the wheels, great solid disks of oak.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Conquering Sword of Conan]

The ram was released, and the mantlet began to recede from the gate as swiftly as it had advanced.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Conquering Sword of Conan]

Except that I had had the Nar driving spikes and sharpened wooden slats through the cracks between the mantlet timbers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shadow Games]

Madame Ellen Gowan was indeed dressed delightfully today in dove gray jersey wool, with a mantlet of rich black velvet lined with white fur.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dressmaker] Reference

And she tripped gaily across the embroidered mantlet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Famous Privateersmen and Adventurers of the Sea Their rovings, cruises, escapades, and fierce battling upon the ocean for patriotism and for treasure] Reference

At the mantlet they aimed bolts from a strong engine which they had newly put in place, and by ill luck broke it through.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heroes Every Child Should Know] Reference

As for the mantlet, it was made in somewhat the same fashion, only it was less in size, nor was it to be brought near to the wall.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heroes Every Child Should Know] Reference

A shield-mantlet, and seized the approaches of the gates.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Danish History, Books I-IX] Reference

"I well remember that, on occasion of an outfall, a Genoan raised his arm over his mantlet, and shook it at us, a hundred paces from our line.    From Wordnik.com.  [The White Company]

"Armor-piercing round at the mantlet!" he gasped.    From Wordnik.com.  [Panzer Aces]

Richard, "I know the two; the cat and the mantlet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heroes Every Child Should Know] Reference

On thy purple mantlet lying.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mosaics of Grecian History] Reference

Here runs a zigzag, there a mantlet grows.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Columbiad] Reference

They are bringing forward shield and mantlet.    From Wordnik.com.  [The White Company]