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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A nimbus of light had collected there, spinning gently.
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All around the head of the minister-with-the-film-star looks was a nimbus , or brightly-shining halo.
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Her face was framed by her Pamela bonnet, a nimbus of straw trimmed with pink ribbons and blue silk anemones.
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She was cross legged, bare breasted, her hair around her head like a nimbus .
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The tilted eyes of the others gives the doctor his heroic, questing mien, his humourless nimbus .
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Then we were higher still and the earth curved away from us, showing a nimbus of atmosphere at its edge.
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They seemed to glow in the flickering green-gold gold light, as if embraced by a holy nimbus .