"Nimbus" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... The nimbus or nightcap again appears as in the Ridley specimen, but, whatever it be, the teeth are undoubtedly the teeth ...
— In Search Of Gravestones Old And Curious • W.T. (William Thomas) Vincent
... young and girlish speech. It was delivered with tremendous sincerity. Yet it did not matter much what she said, for what counted was that Lydia's contralto voice was very young and rich, that her golden hair was like a nimbus about her head, that her lips were red and sweet, that her cheeks were vivid and that her eyes were very blue, very ...
— Lydia of the Pines • Honore Willsie Morrow
... the child was as other children: about its head was neither nimbus nor material crown; its lips opened not in speech; if it heard their expressions of joy, their invocations, their prayers, it made no sign whatever, but, baby-like, looked longer at the flame in the lantern ...
— Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ • Lew Wallace
... away the nimbus of cigar smoke with which he had surrounded himself and stared gloomily ...
— The Price • Francis Lynde
... Browning gave away her imagination to popular movements; she was also naturally a hero-worshipper; she hoped more enthusiastically than he was wont to do; she was more readily depressed; the word "liberty" for her had an aureole or a nimbus which glorified all its humbler and more prosaic meanings. Browning, although in this year 1847 he made a move towards an appointment as secretary to a mission to the Vatican, at heart cared little for men in groups or societies; he cared greatly for individuals, for the growth of individual ...
— Robert Browning • Edward Dowden
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