aureola
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My theory is that there is a human aureola.
From Time Magazine Archive
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 Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life by Gustave Flaubert
The balloon threw large shadows on this heap of clouds, and was surrounded as by an aureola.
From A Winter Amid the Ice and Other Thrilling Stories by Jules Verne
Vapours were rising from the ravine: the sun shone upon them, throwing a golden aureola about the opposite mountains, and all the wreathing mists that the wind whirled down the valley had elusive, opalescent effects.
From The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains by Mary Noailles Murfree
About the fifth day an aureola of inflammation forms around the pocks, from a quarter of an inch to two inches in extent, and the inflamed area may be somewhat sore.
From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by Austin ?Malley
