Noun, : The candidate was encompassed with a nimbus of fame. From Dictionary.com.
This glory was called nimbus, or aureola, and is defined by. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
The spikes are sun rays, he says, and the circle is "simply a halo or what in art is called a nimbus, showing she is divine.". From Wordnik.com. [NPR Topics: News] Reference
Normally, when Judas is depicted, he is distinguished from the other apostles and saints because he has no halo or "nimbus". From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-02-01] Reference
A kind of nimbus or aureole shines round the humble figure as drawn by the prophet. From Wordnik.com. [Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah] Reference
He goes about with his thinking face, and a kind of nimbus over him, of never needing to read at all. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost Art of Reading] Reference
"nimbus," with which in my state of mind I did not feel able to cope. From Wordnik.com. [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 10 Prince Otto Von Bismarck, Count Helmuth Von Moltke, Ferdinand Lassalle] Reference
"No head without its nimbus of gold-coloured light.". From Wordnik.com. [A Sheaf of Corn] Reference
The nimbus at the window became brighter and harder. From Wordnik.com. [Stallion Gate]
Round her head she had a nimbus of curls than which that of. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Myths] Reference
The head is covered with a veil and surrounded by a nimbus. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847] Reference
A nimbus of condensation outlined his fingers on the glass. From Wordnik.com. [Gorky Park]
A last, faint nimbus of moonlight clung to the open window. From Wordnik.com. [Stallion Gate]
Pointed oval: St. Bartholomew, standing, with nimbus, in the right hand. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Priory Church of St. Bartholomew-the-Great, Smithfield A Short History of the Foundation and a Description of the Fabric and also of the Church of St. Bartholomew-the-Less] Reference
By adding Howard's nimbus formation to this system, we destroy its symmetry. From Wordnik.com. [Man or Matter] Reference
Ihjel broke into a blue nimbus of crackling flame, his skin blackening, charred. From Wordnik.com. [Planet of the Damned] Reference
She left the question unfinished as, to Moiraine's eyes, a nimbus surrounded her. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Hunt]
The cracking plant button was up again and there was a blue nimbus on another button. From Wordnik.com. [The Night of the Long Knives] Reference
The winds of the desert had roughened it and the bright threads made a nimbus about the head. From Wordnik.com. [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference
The centre design is a quatrefoil, inside which is a lamb with nimbus, and the letters AGNV DI. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Durham A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espiscopal See] Reference
The 4·7 crashed hoarsely back, and a black nimbus flung up far above the trees on the mountain. From Wordnik.com. [From Capetown to Ladysmith An Unfinished Record of the South African War] Reference
Also, the violet patch of Atla-Hi went real dim and the button for it no longer had a violet nimbus. From Wordnik.com. [The Night of the Long Knives] Reference
We can see the nimbus on the few, but not on the crowd; on the unusual, but not upon the commonplace. From Wordnik.com. [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference
Anyway the spot we'd just taken off from was so marked and in that case the button with the green nimbus. From Wordnik.com. [The Night of the Long Knives] Reference
Oval: St. Bartholomew, with nimbus, lifting up the right hand in benediction, in the left hand a long cross. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Priory Church of St. Bartholomew-the-Great, Smithfield A Short History of the Foundation and a Description of the Fabric and also of the Church of St. Bartholomew-the-Less] Reference
Her head, crowned with a wavy nimbus of Titian auburn, was superbly set upon her fine, symmetrical shoulders. From Wordnik.com. [The Flaw in the Sapphire] Reference
The figure is an angel, with nimbus and expanded wings, issuing from waves, with (probably) an orb in the hands. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: Southwark Cathedral Formerly the Collegiate Church of St. Saviour, Otherwise St. Mary Overie. A Short History and Description of the Fabric, with Some Account of the College and the See] Reference
You imagine your brother must have lingered there awhile and then floated out of the house and into the nimbus of space. From Wordnik.com. [Haircut] Reference
There is no nimbus around her head, no sign of the cross upon her breast; her hands are clasped on no crucifix or rosary. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866] Reference
This innermost coffin was covered over its entire surface with carvings of human figures, the heads surrounded by a nimbus. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Durham A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espiscopal See] Reference
Pointed oval: St. Bartholomew standing, with nimbus, lifting up the right hand in benediction, in the left hand a long cross. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Priory Church of St. Bartholomew-the-Great, Smithfield A Short History of the Foundation and a Description of the Fabric and also of the Church of St. Bartholomew-the-Less] Reference
The qualities that made him her antithesis redoubled his worth; and the prestige of romance clung round his head like a nimbus. From Wordnik.com. [Sacrifice] Reference
Westward, the sky was banked with purple nimbus, towering in gloomy magnificence aloft, but fined to nothingness on the horizon. From Wordnik.com. ["Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character] Reference
But the town of St. Lo is ever gloriously lighted, for us, with a nimbus of young heads, such as encircled the earlier madonnas. From Wordnik.com. [In and out of Three Normady Inns] Reference
A man who had been standing in the shadow of a house moved out and stood a moment under the quivering nimbus of the electric light. From Wordnik.com. [Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes] Reference
The reason we hadn't tried the one button yet was that it showed a green nimbus, just like the Atla-Hi button had had a violet nimbus. From Wordnik.com. [The Night of the Long Knives] Reference
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