He's a nigger preacher who lives with Nimbusdown at Red Wing.
Yer kin call me jes' what yer choose, sah; but my name's Nimbus all the same.
Nimbus was intercepted as he came into town with his wife, and an attempt made to induce him to withdraw the prosecution, but that high-minded litigant would hear nothing of the proposed compromise.
Nimbus said that if they would walk on slowly he would go by the house and get his coat and overtake them before they reached the school-house.
But Nimbus thought of it, and that was why he sent back the horse," she answered.
Then, seeing Nimbus approach, he changed at once to a political song.
And so the slave Nimbus was transformed, first into the "contraband" and mercenary soldier George Nimbus, and then by marriage into Nimbus Desmit.
With the utmost exertion we have been able to learn nothing of him or of Nimbussince the night of the fire.
Entering his own house, Nimbus placed his burden in the chair at the head of the table, while he himself took his seat on one of the wooden benches at the side.
Now, Nimbus is that country, not seldom visible from some parts of our earth, which we have called the Rain-Cloud.
Conduct so rascally as that of the Prince of Nimbus is enough to fill the clouds with uproar.
So the Prince of Nimbus married Cirrha, and Nephelo arrived at the court of King Cumulus one evening during the celebration of the bridal feast.
As an atribute of power, the nimbusis often seen attached to the heads of evil spirits.
The nimbus is bright blue, and the wings have the upper parts yellow, and are tipped with green.
The crown is an insignia of civil power borne by the laity; the nimbus is ecclesiastical and religious.
The girl turned very slowly from the window and in the dark room her figure and profile were seen, a silhouette against the pane with a nimbus about her hair.
She rose abruptly and went down to the water's edge where she stood with the breeze whipping the silk draperies of her blue bathing skirt against her knees and stirring her hair into a darknimbus about her head.
A shaft of early light tilting obliquely through the window fell on her head, making a soft nimbus about her dark hair and bringing out the exquisite color of her face.
I fancy that the mist of centuries of undiscriminating admiration has magnified this figure out of all proportion and contrived, furthermore, to fix an iridescent nimbus of sanctity about its head.
The young woman who has spent four years at such a school does not step through a nimbus of juvenile dreams when she enters into the world that is waiting for her.
The rest of the nimbus was shining, and amidst the general blaze Tycho stood out like a sun.
No, as Nature had given them the splendid spectacle of a cosmic meteor shining by formidable expansion, as this incomparable display of fireworks, which no Ruggieri could imitate, had lighted for a few seconds the invisible nimbus of the moon.
If there was no probability of being provided with the nimbus of Juno, there was the possibility of shadowing himself under the nimbus of night.
It is the common mistake which gathers a nimbus of mystic sense around every book excessively revered.
The swaying of the trees outside of the windows threw now a golden shimmer, then a violet shadow over the gleaming altar pavement; and the sun sunk lower, and the nimbus faded, and the wan Christ looked ghastly and toil-spent.
As the afternoon sun shone on the glass, a flood of ruby light fell from the garments of Jesus upon the glittering marble beneath, and the nimbus that radiated around the crown of thorns caught a glory that was dazzling.
An example is there given of the square nimbus in the case of Pope Nicholas, as represented in a contemporary MS.
A thin cirruslike cloud which often drapes the summits of tall cumulo-nimbus clouds.
These clouds, composed of water drops, tower far above the smoke cloud, and are identical in character and mode of origin with the cumulus and cumulo-nimbus clouds formed by currents of moist air rising from the heated ground on a summer day.
Strato-cumulus may be distinguished from nimbus by its lumpy or rolling appearance, and by the fact that it does not tend to bring rain.
But the Church gives Europe a special nimbus and a special excellency over those ancient worlds.
The fact is, that when this brass lay on the floor, the feet of passers-by had gradually erased the features of the archangel, leaving only the circular nimbus or glory round his head.
Some well-meaning but misguided restorer of later days has evidently taken the nimbus to be the outline of the head, and has roughly filled in eyes, nose, and mouth to correspond.
Oh, you cut me to the heart," sighed Elsa, who saw the scientific nimbus with which she had crowned her brows thus falling off like a theatrical halo of gold-paper.
He indicated a ruddy, clean-shaven person of approximately fifty years, who on closer inspection proved to be Max Kirschner shorn of his white moustache and without the attendant nimbus of his diamond pin.
A slant of sunshine struck in under the porch twining an aureole about her golden head, creating an auriferous nimbus for her shapely figure.
Carter's gaze shifted to the nimbusabout the moon, a clear storm warning.
In his perplexity he slipped into a little chapel where a beautiful ancient marble statue of the goddess Juno had recently been set up with a golden nimbus as an image of the Virgin Mary, so as not to waste such a gift of divine art.
I saw Drake outlined in flame; that around me a radiant nimbus was growing.
The sunny green on copse and mountain throws up the group better than the conventionalnimbus could have done.
The sunlight caught the nimbus around her head and brightened it with veins of gold.
Against the dim interior her head, with its nimbus of hair, had the droop and poise of the head of a mediaeval saint.
In the wet season they grow into the nimbus and stratus types that precede a sudden downpour of water or a furious hailstorm.
The cumulo-nimbus clouds are typical and change to nimbus in the early afternoon.
A hot wind blew from the north and now brought with it smoke and an overcast sky, which in the evening turned to nimbus clouds.
