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Example sentences for "aureola"

Lexicographically close words:
auream; aureate; aurei; aureis; aurem; aureole; aureoled; aureoles; aures; aureum
  1. A soft aureola with gleaming radiations, a low, shadowy chamber, a beast feeding from a manger, and within it a child's golden head.

  2. His absence had regained for him much of that aureola of saintship which had been nearly abstracted during her reproachful mood on that miserable journey from London.

  3. Such a one was Stephen's now: the crowning aureola of the dream had been the meeting here by stealth; and if Elfride had come to him only ten minutes after he had turned away, the disappointment would have been recognizable still.

  4. It is the aureola which has stolen into my heart," thought Cristobal.

  5. The child replied by a slight motion of the head; and the aureola trembled like sunlight on the water.

  6. Her golden hair made an aureola of light around the colourless face with its dead white lips.

  7. The sun, falling upon Esperance's blonde hair, turned it suddenly into an aureola of gold.

  8. Then, he asked himself whether the interlaced foliage of two or three problems would not form the necessary aureola around this fair head.

  9. He was like this every time chance brought a woman to his door, and not one had left him without bearing away any aureola about her head and a necklace of tears about her neck.

  10. The terrifying fan-like aureola suddenly grew dim, and the desert was grey and gloomy, with a gentle rain of thick white ash falling down.

  11. The rays quivered everywhere in the air, and the aureola filled the world.

  12. It was her splendour and her aureola which appeared in the air.

  13. The royal castle shone with a strange lustre; a sun seemed to send forth a halo; an ominous aureola appeared in the distance.

  14. The glory which you did not seek has sought you, but the aureola which shines over your mausoleum need not alarm your modesty or your humility.

  15. By referring to the accompanying figure, which we extract from our note on the Ruhmkorff apparatus, it will be seen that the aureola which developed as a circular film from right to left at D, on the north pole of the magnet, N.

  16. Yet the very shadows across the immense floor, and the aureola upon the carpet about the dressing table seemed to give gloom to the chamber.

  17. These rays were prolonged in four directions at right angles to each other much more than elsewhere; having in these directions a length about equal to the sun's diameter, making the corona or aureola obviously cruciform in its shape.

  18. It is enclosed in a cusped aureola formed of several coloured bands of green, violet, and rose.

  19. If you take St. Augustine or St. Thomas as the type of a great theologian, you cannot fail to set upon his brow the aureola of philosophy.

  20. Suzanne, the saint who wore too soon the aureola on her brow, and whom God took from me that her memory might be for me an image of one of his angels of purity!

  21. The aureola round the eclipsed sun, they argued, is simply a result of the diffraction, or apparent bending of the sunbeams that graze the surface of the lunar globe--an effect of the same kind as the coloured fringes of shadows.

  22. Lockyer's journey from England to Sicily, and shipwreck in the Psyche, were recompensed with a glimpse of the solar aureola during one second and a half!

  23. In many representations of the Buddha, a Nimbus or aureola of glory encircles the head (see p.

  24. Buddha is in the attitude of meditation under the tree, with a halo or aureola round his head.

  25. We remark at the positive pole a quite wide opaque circle surrounded by a sort of aureola composed of an infinite number of very delicate rays, while at the negative pole the aureola seems not to have been able to spread.


  26. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "aureola" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.