| Unless you count the fact that they can be cumulus, stratus, cirrus, or nimbus. |
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| Kira was laying, her head laying delicately on a rock, her hair splayed out around her head like a nimbus. |
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| This boy monk had a halo around him, a nimbus of purity, divinity, and godliness. |
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| Sun worship was marked by the use of the halo, or nimbus, which originated with the pagan Greeks and Romans to represent their sun god, Helios. |
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| In the third and fourth centuries, the halo or nimbus was used only for Christ and the lamb. |
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| Illuminated only by the fire, her figure shrouded in diaphanous clothes, she drifted in a nimbus of copper light. |
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| Some distance ahead, the hall bent to the left, and from those hidden precincts glowed a nimbus of yellowish luminescence. |
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| Outside it was still dark, but there was a hint of pink on the eastern horizon, a small nimbus of light that proclaimed the coming of the sun. |
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| The polenta looked like a very small moon surrounded by a large nimbus of vapour. |
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| Mara stood there, face incandescent with rage, eyes blazing with purple wrath and entire body outlined in a shimmering nimbus of terrible light. |
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| As the waiting room door closed behind him, another door opened in front of him, with a familiar electronic hum and a nimbus of blue-white light. |
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| When the power within her reached its peak, the red nimbus around her expanded to fill the entire corridor. |
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| By the dense nimbus above them, she could tell that a no ordinary rain was about to come. |
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| As though a spell was spoken, a strong, chilling wind passed over the two and a large nimbus cloud blocked the Sun out. |
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| A dull robin's egg-blue canvas, bearing ever-so-faint gray diagonal streaks that recall dark nimbus clouds, functions mainly as a visual texture. |
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| Her face, all her skin, was the color of the nimbus clouds on a calm summer afternoon. |
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| A broken skein of clouds, outracing the birds underneath, abruptly halts, spins and dissolves into a moist nimbus. |
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| As journalists report bolder acts by the renegades, nimbus and his friends are forced to move further from childhood innocence. |
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| A rosy nimbus surrounded him and the lifeless body, which slowly sat up. |
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| Except sometimes, if you saw him in the right light, he had this nimbus. |
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| Blue is a colour associated with St. John the Evangelist, whose traditional emblem is the eagle shown with a nimbus. |
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| One of the last things that registered on Dave's perception as his vision faded was a flickering black nimbus of energy limning the creature's form. |
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| He grew terribly bright, as if ghostly images of himself had focused on him, and a crackling nimbus of pure force that glowed a deep gold-crimson surrounded him. |
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| Nobody noticed the dark man hovering in the sky, away from the setting sun or the moon, as he watched the spectacle, before he disappeared in a nimbus of smoke. |
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| That we especially attend to, and emphasize, borders and boundaries is evidenced powerfully in our use of halos, the nimbus and the aura in the arts. |
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| Heat flashed along her bonds and they melted instantly, mere puddles of once-hard iron, and she pulled herself free, surrounded in a fiery nimbus. |
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| Exactly they are percepted by the people with paranormal abilities as colourful egg like nimbus, encircling our physical bodies. |
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| And yet at the same time the form supplied its own inextinguishable nimbus. |
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| The nimbus of a generative process, of the detection and liberation of a given material's own vital force, hangs permanently about his oeuvre. |
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| Nor is he bothered by the somewhat eerie nimbus of the robot-like fusion of man and machinery, which can cause passersby to turn and stare. |
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| Marin Kasimir's Tondo Mundi, a large, thin plexi-glass ring, hovers above the altar at the crossing like a nimbus or planetary ring. |
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| We see how Jesus blesses Mary who is surrounded by rays of light that remind us of the nimbus of the traditional attributive iconology of cult images before the Reformation. |
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| The first cloud I fell in love with was the cumulous nimbus. |
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| For our backpacking trips and multi-day ski traverses we like the Nimbus Ozone. |
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| Yet Nimbus shares, in big blocks, have been virtually unsellable for a long time. |
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| The majority live in Eden, a glittering, floating haven above the city, where corporations like Nimbus Thaumaturgical distribute the fairy dust on which the people rely. |
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