Meanings of aureola in English

The sunlight came in through the window, and an aureola appeared above her beautiful head.

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

What could be the nature of this radiating aureola?

Whenever this shadow was projected upon a cloud, his head appeared surrounded by a luminous aureola.

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

From their summits, like an aureola, radiated the splendour of the dust-moted air, this evening a deep umber.

She took from her brow the Olympian aureola, and placed it on the bristly head of a gnome!

The bodies of the gods, inexpressibly beautiful, and commonly invisible, are, whenever seen by men, in an aureola of light.

She is a beautiful, tired-looking thing in dreadful clothes who wears an aureola of hair that is a perfect wonder.

A barrier of tough, five-foot-high prairie cordgrass was mixed with what might have been goatsbeard and massive clumps of aureola.

A spar of sunshine, filtering through the ragged limbs of the trees, fell aslant her, and she stood in an aureola.

In some legends of saints, we find that they were born with a lambent circle or golden aureola about their heads.

One might think her a saint amid all this sunshine, with her large, ecstatic eyes, and her golden hair shining like an aureola!

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.

She comes before us at first with the classic charms of an Athenian beauty; she leaves us resplendent with the aureola of a Christian saint.

"His sixty-five years appear on his brow as an aureola of experience and wisdom; he is learned, good, and generous."