Noun, : The candidate was encompassed with a nimbus of fame. From Dictionary.com.
The remaining effigies are depicted on the foreheads, hands and nimbi of the larger ones. From Wordnik.com. [Religion in Japan] Reference
Another look and they are no more, just towering cumuli-nimbi, strafing the foothills with the lashes of the gods. From Wordnik.com. [The Towers of the Sunset]
Its midnight ceiling showed the Ku nebula with its twinkling gold sparks swimming within fat undulating jade and sapphire nimbi. From Wordnik.com. [The Dreaming Void]
The gold thread which is freely made use of all over the cope, upon the draperies, nimbi, and surrounding foliage, is marvellously bright and sparkling, although nearly six hundred years old. From Wordnik.com. [Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving] Reference
The stitches in every part run in zig-zags, the vestments, and even the nimbi about the heads, are all executed with the stitches slanting in one direction, from the centre of the cope outward, without consideration of the positions of the figures. From Wordnik.com. [Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance] Reference
Sinai hills clouded over: cirri strata high up; nimbi in fragments below. From Wordnik.com. [The Land of Midian — Volume 2] Reference
No wandering clouds: -- over far Pelée only a shadowy piling of nimbi. From Wordnik.com. [Two Years in the French West Indies] Reference
There were large nimbi and small nimbi about their drooping heads, but the face was always the same. From Wordnik.com. [A Pair of Blue Eyes] Reference
Towards D the sun is rarely seen during the rainy season, as well from the constant presence of nimbi aloft, as from fog on the surface of the ground. From Wordnik.com. [Himalayan Journals — Complete] Reference
We set out at seven a.m. on the next day, when an Azyab or south-easterly wind was promised by the damp air, the slaty sea, and the gloomy nimbi on the hill-tops. From Wordnik.com. [The Land of Midian — Volume 1] Reference
The early mornings were bright with views northwards of blue sky and Kinchinjhow, while to the south the lofty peak of Tukcham, though much nearer, was seldom seen, and black cumuli and nimbi rolled up the steep valley of the Lachen to be dissipated in mist over Tallum. From Wordnik.com. [Himalayan Journals — Complete] Reference
The greater number have nimbi. From Wordnik.com. [Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series] Reference
Vnde graues nimbi vitreas tenuantur in auras?. From Wordnik.com. [The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I.] Reference
< i > nimbi and egg-shaped cloudlets. From Wordnik.com. [Italian Hours] Reference
« on the mounting fule, he moft nimbi/(wicli. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Laurence Sterne] Reference
Endless strata run in parallel ribbons over the extreme horizon; above these, scattered cumuli, also in horizontal lines, are dotted against a clear grey sky, which gradually, as the eye is lifted, passes into a deep cloudless blue vault, continuously clear to the zenith; there the cumuli, in white fleecy masses, again appear; till, in the northern celestial hemisphere, they thicken and assume the leaden hue of nimbi, discharging their moisture on the dark forest-clad hills around. From Wordnik.com. [Himalayan Journals — Complete] Reference
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And all came with nimbi and aureoles and gloriae, bearing palms and harps and swords and olive crowns, in robes whereon were woven the blessed symbols of their efficacies, inkhorns, arrows, loaves, cruses, fetters, axes, trees, bridges, babes in a bathtub, shells, wallets, shears, keys, dragons, lilies, buckshot, beards, hogs, lamps, bellows, beehives, soupladles, stars, snakes, anvils, boxes of vaseline, bells, crutches, forceps, stags 'horns, watertight boots, hawks, millstones, eyes on a dish, wax candles, aspergills, unicorns. From Wordnik.com. [Ulysses] Reference
And all came with nimbi and aureoles and gloriae, bearing palms and harps and swords and olive crowns, in robes whereon were woven the blessed symbols of their efficacies, inkhorns, arrows, loaves, cruses, fetters, axes, trees, bridges, babes in a bathtub, shells, wallets, shears, keys, dragons, lilies, buckshot, beards, hogs, lamps, bellows, beehives, soupladles, stars, snakes, anvils, boxes of vaseline, bells, crutches, forceps, stags’ horns, watertight boots, hawks, millstones, eyes on a dish, wax candles, aspergills, unicorns. From Wordnik.com. [Ulysses] Reference
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