Example Sentences

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From streaming tresses to white feet an oval of pulsing, golden light nimbused her.

From The Metal Monster by Merritt, Abraham

The path we trod was an exquisite mosaic—pastel greens and pinks upon a soft grey base, garlands of nimbused forms like the flaming rose of the Rosicrucians held in the mouths of the flying serpents.

From The Moon Pool by Merritt, Abraham

They are crowned and nimbused as the kings and saints of antique France.

From Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 3 France and the Netherlands, Part 1 by Halsey, Francis W. (Francis Whiting)

The shimmering mists that had nimbused Norhala had vanished—or merging into the wan gleaming had become one with it.

From The Metal Monster by Merritt, Abraham

Its basis is a sentiment which antiquity deified, primitive Christianity scorned, chivalry nimbused and the Renaissance propelled over the paths easy or perilous which it has since pursued.

From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Saltus, Edgar