corona

• But if the corona has been a cause of terror in the past it has become a source of growing knowledge in our time The story of the first scientific observation of the corona and the prominences is thrillingly interesting, and in fact dramatic. —  Curiosities of the Sky
• Behind the corona was a solid cake of sebaceous matter. —  History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance
• On the north side of the corona is the tomb of Cardinal Pole, the last —  The Cathedral Church of Canterbury [2nd ed.].
• The presence of a corona is part of the definition of the amarella group, and an amarella without a corona is a primary ipso facto. —  Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 2
• The eclipse of December, 1870, decided one point, that the corona was a truly solar phenomenon, and not, as some astronomers imagined, an optical phenomenon, produced by our own atmosphere. —  Story of Creation as Told By Theology and By Science

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