As journalists report bolder acts by the renegades, nimbus and his friends are forced to move further from childhood innocence.
It was like a thunderbolt in a nimbus—the rush of Flagg down the mountain.
He puffed quietly until his head was surrounded by a nimbus of smoke.
The nimbus of the saint in his eyes, was associated with the crown of martyrdom.
Above is a nimbus of clouds, and above the nimbus, the weighing of souls.
The gas-lights have no heart in them, and each wears a nimbus.
Moreover these figures in Yucatan have a nimbus too, just like the Buddhas.
A sword—a crown—the nimbus of a saint: imagination might play untrammelled.
It wears a crown, and a glory of daggers is the nimbus about its head!
Golden tresses like a nimbus of glory adorned her queenly head.
1610s, "bright cloud surrounding a god," from Latin nimbus "cloud," perhaps related to nebula "cloud, mist" (see nebula). Meaning "halo" is first recorded c.1730. Meteorological sense of "a rain cloud" is from 1803.
