This glory was called nimbus, or aureola, and is defined by.    From Wordnik.com.  [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference

I draw quickly, the curves of her buttock and shoulder, a faint shading of aureola.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ukiyo] Reference

  I draw quickly, the curves of her buttock and shoulder, a faint shading of aureola.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ukiyo] Reference

Shadows, aureola and mist, the light falling on roofs and gables of white or brown two miles off.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Visit from Uncle Walt] Reference

She is a beautiful, tired-looking thing in dreadful clothes who wears an aureola of hair that is a perfect wonder.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sweetapple Cove] Reference

Celina's head is fashioned after a classic model, and the mass of amber-hued hair which crowns it might be taken for an aureola.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of a Summer Or, Journal Leaves from Chappaqua] Reference

The twilight of this region in which we now found ourselves continued without fading into night, and to add to the beauty of the scene an aureola appeared in the sky.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adventures in Southern Seas A Tale of the Sixteenth Century] Reference

What could be the nature of this radiating aureola?.    From Wordnik.com.  [All Around the Moon] Reference

Shadows, aureola and mist, light falling on roofs and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Leaves of Grass [1867]] Reference

"It is the aureola which has stolen into my heart," thought Cristobal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fairy Book] Reference

Child: but, lo! the whole face had melted into the aureola; nothing was left but light.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fairy Book] Reference

The sunlight came in through the window, and an aureola appeared above her beautiful head.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Goose Girl] Reference

Her golden hair made an aureola of light around the colourless face with its dead white lips.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Idol of Paris] Reference

It is enclosed in a cusped aureola formed of several coloured bands of green, violet, and rose.    From Wordnik.com.  [Illuminated Manuscripts] Reference

Shadows, aureola and mist, light falling on roofs and gables of white or brown, three miles off.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poems By Walt Whitman] Reference

Shadows, aureola and mist, the light falling on roofs and gables of white or brown two miles off.    From Wordnik.com.  [Leaves of Grass] Reference

Shadows, aureola and mist, the light falling on roofs and gables of white or brown, three miles off.    From Wordnik.com.  [There was a Child went Forth] Reference

From their summits, like an aureola, radiated the splendour of the dust-moted air, this evening a deep umber.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arizona Nights] Reference

Mr. Dale pushed his broad-brimmed hat back on his head, so that his face seemed to have a black aureola around it.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Ward, Preacher] Reference

A spar of sunshine, filtering through the ragged limbs of the trees, fell aslant her, and she stood in an aureola.    From Wordnik.com.  [Man on the Box] Reference

"His sixty-five years appear on his brow as an aureola of experience and wisdom; he is learned, good, and generous.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Amulet] Reference

A shining aureola of "faculæ," described by Bredichin at Moscow, and by Lohse at Potsdam, as encircling it in September.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition] Reference

The bodies of the gods, inexpressibly beautiful, and commonly invisible, are, whenever seen by men, in an aureola of light.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology] Reference

As soon as the shadow of a mountaineer is projected upon a mist, his head gives rise to a shadow surrounded by a luminous aureola.    From Wordnik.com.  [Young Folks' Library, Volume XI (of 20) Wonders of Earth, Sea and Sky] Reference

Cuvier's work up to this time had appeared to them surrounded with the glory of an aureola at the summit of an incontestable science.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life] Reference

My eyes found her and lingered on the soft curves, the rose-leaf colouring, the eager face framed in a sunlit aureola of radiant hair.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45] Reference

These luminous appearances -- these aureola rays -- have, in addition to the darting movement, a rapid rotary movement around the head.    From Wordnik.com.  [Young Folks' Library, Volume XI (of 20) Wonders of Earth, Sea and Sky] Reference

La indignación que sus seguidores mostraban desde la oposición, evidentemente era apenas lo que Herbert George Wells señalaba como simple envidia con aureola.    From Wordnik.com.  [Colorado Indymedia] Reference

By and by the artist came over, and nearly wept with despair when he saw his subject sheared of the auburn, gray-sprinkled aureola that had made his first sketch a success.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mark Twain, a Biography — Volume II, Part 1: 1886-1900] Reference

Han history, Emperor Ming was said to have dreamed one night in the year 64 of a golden person standing 20 metres tall and with a radiating white aureola flying from the West.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to India, Czech Republic sign three agreements during Hamid Ansari's visit] Reference