No, I cannot trust my pen, nor would any such description do her justice; for her charm lay not in beauty only, but in a certain rare, sweet girlishness, which seemed to form a nimbus round her.

" It is the common mistake which gathers a nimbus of mystic sense around every book excessively revered.

No soldiers, no guns, in sight; only against masses of autumn green a diaphanous, man-made nimbus which was raining steel hail.

What a head she hadin its nimbus of hazy gold.

She is never quite credible, never quite loses that first nimbus of the supernatural.

From these windows, in winter, we saw the nimbus of the Northern Light.