Three rings surround the central aureole of this lunar corona imaged by Lauri Kangas ( site ) on 31st January 2004. From LearnThat.org. [yourdictionary.com]
Far off and far up there was a glow of rosy light, and within the aureole was her face, full of sorrow, looking at me with pity in every feature. From Wordnik.com. [Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude] Reference
It gave to her a kind of aureole, as if her beauty shed a lustre round her. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864] Reference
A more usual name is "aureole", which in a restricted sense means an oval or elliptical ray of light like a medallion. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip] Reference
In the luminous aureole shining from a maiden's soul. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866] Reference
A man with an aureole of silver hair approached the obelisk. From Wordnik.com. [Stallion Gate]
Golden Gate Park is the aureole of San Francisco's recreational haunts. From Wordnik.com. [Fascinating San Francisco] Reference
Bea flitted across the grass, her bright hair an aureole in the sunlight. From Wordnik.com. [Beatrice Leigh at College A Story for Girls] Reference
For each artistic bit -- a laughing face in an aureole of amber clusters. From Wordnik.com. [The California Birthday Book] Reference
Her golden hair was still beautiful, and it seemed an aureole around her head. From Wordnik.com. [The Kentucky Ranger] Reference
Rhun's new tonsure was bared to the sun, the fair hair round it roused like an aureole. From Wordnik.com. [An Excellent Mystery]
The CORONA is an aureole of light which is seen to surround the Sun during a total eclipse. From Wordnik.com. [The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'] Reference
The hair and beard caught in an aureole of fire, like a halo, so it seemed to his disciple. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles]
Isn't there any old whisper which will tarnish that wearisome aureole of saintly perfection?. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 17, March, 1859] Reference
A beautiful woman she, of forty years, whose fine face seemed now set in an aureole of sunbeams. From Wordnik.com. [The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 2, February, 1891] Reference
The sun, behind him, made an aureole around his head, and she could not see to whom she was going. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles]
"He's comin '' round," said Johnny peering down into the white face in the aureole of lantern-light. From Wordnik.com. [Diane of the Green Van] Reference
The stiff aureole of her dark hair made a striking contrast to the whiteness of her childish costume. From Wordnik.com. [The Girl Scouts in Beechwood Forest] Reference
Her dark hair forms an aureole above her brow, and brings into relief the dainty, oval form of her face. From Wordnik.com. [What Dress Makes of Us] Reference
Meneptah, raging and weeping, saw his army leave him and gallop in an aureole of dust toward the Red Sea. From Wordnik.com. [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference
His fur is without a single white hair and is a finger deep; his ruff encircles his head like a great aureole. From Wordnik.com. [Concerning Cats My Own and Some Others] Reference
In its place was a soft aureole of hair, standing out fluffily on the small head and curling under at the ends. From Wordnik.com. [Rosemary] Reference
The child's cheeks were a vivid rose, her dark hair still in the stiff aureole that was unlike other children's. From Wordnik.com. [The Girl Scouts in Beechwood Forest] Reference
She wore a dark blue street suit, and under her small hat her glorious hair flamed like an incandescent aureole. From Wordnik.com. [The Cab of the Sleeping Horse] Reference
The sun burst through the gold-tipped aureole of cloud, scattering far and wide lavish promises of a perfect day. From Wordnik.com. [Judith of the Plains] Reference
The sun was streaming through the doorway, so that the slim, graceful figure and lovely face were set as in an aureole. From Wordnik.com. [Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden] Reference
Brabazons at their house in Audley Square -- a frail slip of a girl with immense grey eyes and hair like an aureole of reddish gold. From Wordnik.com. [The Vision of Desire] Reference
Her dark hair made a stiff aureole about her delicately cut face with its pointed chin, large brilliantly black eyes and full red lips. From Wordnik.com. [The Girl Scouts in Beechwood Forest] Reference
I see and note the aureole on the dandelion, and the sun which, far away, beyond the stretching country, spends his glory on the clouds. From Wordnik.com. [The Mind of the Artist Thoughts and Sayings of Painters and Sculptors on Their Art] Reference
Her white hood had fallen on her shoulders, and her hair, slightly stirred by the wind, floated like a dark aureole around her pale face. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
He swept her up off her feet and kissed her till her cheeks were wild-rose pink, very becoming with her fluffy aureole of snow-white hair. From Wordnik.com. [Every Man for Himself] Reference
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