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From streaming tresses to white feet an oval of pulsing, golden light nimbused her.
The Metal Monster 2004
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Their hair streamed behind them, mingled, silken web of brown and shining veil of red-gold; little clouds of sparkling corpuscles threaded them, like flitting swarms of fire-flies; their bodies were nimbused with tiny, flickering tongues of lavender flame.
The Metal Monster 2004
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The shadows wavered; the tips of flame that nimbused them with flickering points of vermilion pulsed outward, drew back, darted forth again, and once more withdrew themselves — and as they did so the shadows thickened — and suddenly there before us stood two figures!
The Moon Pool 2004
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The shimmering mists that had nimbused Norhala had vanished — or merging into the wan gleaming had become one with it.
The Metal Monster 2004
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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.
The Moon Pool 2004
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The shadows wavered; the tips of flame that nimbused them with flickering points of vermilion pulsed outward, drew back, darted forth again, and once more withdrew themselves -- and as they did so the shadows thick-ened -- and suddenly there before us stood two figures!
The Moon Pool 1919
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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.
The Moon Pool 1919
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The shadows wavered; the tips of flame that nimbused them with flickering points of vermilion pulsed outward, drew back, darted forth again, and once more withdrew themselves -- and as they did so the shadows thickened -- and suddenly there before us stood two figures!
The Moon Pool Abraham Merritt 1913
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Humor, it is agreed, consists in contrasts and incongruities, and the essence of Mark Twain's most characteristic humor consists in contrasting this typical, nimbused American, compacted of golden mediocrities, against the world -- consists in showing the incongruity of the rest of the world with this nimbused American.
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They are crowned and nimbused as the kings and saints of antique France.
Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 3 France and the Netherlands, Part 1 Various 1885
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