aureola
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My theory is that there is a human aureola.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Sketches were structureless, as any aureola formed by stray sunlight grazing the moon might naturally be.
From Astronomy: The Science of the Heavenly Bodies by David Peck Todd
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
And she to whom I shall dedicate my heart shall be crowned by me with an aureola of glory, just as the rich of this world load their darlings with pearls and diamonds.
From Eyes Like the Sea by Mór Jókai
