95 examples of aureoles in sentences

The young eyes flashed in that weird aureole of long wolf-hair.

These little colored patches are stains upon the windows of a human soul; stand on the outside, they are but dull and meaningless spots of color; seen from within, they are glorified shapes with empurpled wings and sunbright aureoles.

And, with a sweet forewarning, Mak'st round the sacred front an aureole glow Woven of that light that rose on Easter morning.

There is but one truly sacred type of revolutionary, the Crucified; but very few men are made for the aureole of the cross.

In the firelight her hair was an aureole; and her gown, yellow with multitudinous tiny arabesques of black velvet, echoed the glow of her hair to a shade.

(A beautiful youth falls at the parents' feet; we imagine that in the dead we recognize a well-known form; yet suddenly the corporeal part vanishes; the aureole rises like a comet to heaven; dress, mantle, and lyre remain lying on the ground.)

Hun-lovers, pledged to Peace (the German kind), And such as sported LENIN'S sanguine token, Appealed to Liberty to speak her mind, And Liberty has very frankly spoken, Strewing around her polls The remnants of their ungummed aureoles.

Though still a porter, he was also a hero, and wore his aureole.

Here the doctor of Aquino is represented in an aureole surrounded by a golden sphere or disc, on the edge of which are placed the four evangelists, together with Moses and S. Paul.

From the outer courts of heaven, thronged with multitudes of celestial beings, angels are crowding in, breaking the lines of the prismatic aureole, as though the ardour of their joy could scarcely be repressed; while the everlasting light of God sheds radiance from above, and far below, lies earth with diminished sun and moon.

What had hitherto been treated with religious timidity, with conventional stiffness, or with realistic want of grandeur, was now humanised and at the same time transported into a higher intellectual region; and though Lionardo discrowned the Apostles of their aureoles, he for the first time in the history of painting created a Christ not unworthy to be worshipped as the praesens Deus.

Honors clustered about him as mosses to a rock; Fame relented, and gave him an aureole in place of a crown; and Love, late, but sweeter than sweet, like the last sun-ripened fruit of autumn, made honors and fame alike endurable.

The world is merely a doll to be attired to-day in a modern ball dress, to-morrow in aureoles and stars.

They remain fortunate as those whom the gods loved, wearing the aureoles of immortal promise.

After scouting about Poperinghe in the darkness, I discovered a beer tavern with a fair-sized room in which the party might be packed with care, and then, like a pocket patriarch with the children of Israel, I led my ladies on foot to the place of sanctuary and disposed the nuns round the bar, with the reverend mother in the centre of them, having a little aureole round her head from the glamour of the pewter pots.

He was roused by Coleridge; and though he could not put the aureole of the latter about his own head, he began to do the best he could in his own way.

Then seeing Christ amid His white million of youths, beautiful singing saints, gold curls and gold aureoles, lifted throats, and form of harp and dulcimer, he fell prone in great bitterness on the misery of earthly life.

Through it as through an aureole one saw that twelve inches of green wood had been cut in two as neatly as a thistle-stem is severed by a sharp blow from a walking-stick.

ULTIMATE The vision of a haloed host That weep around an empty throne; And, aureoles dark and angels dead, Man with his own life stands alone.

The dolls have crowns and aureoles, Helmets and horns and wings.

The saint, with a large aureole, is standing in the midst of a desolate landscape; his left hand raised, as if speakingperhaps to some living thing, though nothing is revealed in the reproduction in the illustrated catalogue of the Salon.

They were in white, fresh as lilies, or, perhaps, as little angels, well beloved of heavenly mothers; and they came running from the house, their golden hair shining like aureoles about their eager faces.

The world is merely a doll to be attired to-day in a modern ball dress, to-morrow in aureoles and stars.

And all the while the pastel by Manet, the great hat set like an aureole about the face'the eyes deep set in crimson shadow,' 'the fan widespread across the bosom' (you see I am quoting your own words), looking down, the mistress of that little paradise of tapestry.

No rude touch had soiled that atmosphere of purity and freshness that floated like an aureole around her!

95 examples of  aureoles  in sentences