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Halo

noun

(pl. halos)

An indication of radiant light drawn around the head of a saint. Synonyms: aura, aureole, gloriole, glory, nimbus.

A toroidal shape. Synonyms: anchor ring, annulus, doughnut, ring. "A halo of smoke"

A circle of light around the sun or moon.

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"Halo" Quotes from Famous Books

... even one to clear off old scores, is treated as an act of brutality for which no quarter should be given. If we were to transfer the whole method of procedure to our own lands and houses in England, perhaps the thing would wear a different aspect from that which it wears now, when surrounded by a halo of ...

— About Ireland • E. Lynn Linton

... sentiments, and brilliant metaphors. I could not distinguish any phrases or ideas of my own making. I saw a poor, ragged, shrunken sentence that might have been mine own catch the wings of a fair idea with the light of genius shining like a halo about its head. ...

— The World I Live In • Helen Keller

... Book 136, in Harville's neat cramped handwriting. And the message itself was formal enough: a plain bald statement of a situation that contained heroism, drama, a fight against odds—despair, probably, were the truth known; but despair crowned with the halo of glory ...

— Pushed and the Return Push • George Herbert Fosdike Nichols, (AKA Quex)

... past, who have no quality whatever to differentiate them from the multitude. Red has turned up for them a sufficient number of times, and the universal superstitious instinct not to believe in chance has accordingly surrounded them with a halo. It is merely ridiculous to say, as some do say, that success is never due to chance alone. Because nearly everybody is personally acquainted with reasonable proof, on a great or a ...

— Mental Efficiency - And Other Hints to Men and Women • Arnold Bennett

... driver only turned a white face on me for a moment, and redoubled his efforts, bending forward, plying his whip and crying to his horses; these lay themselves down to the gallop and beat the highway with flying hoofs; and the cart bounded after them among the ruts and fled in a halo of rain and spattering mud. But a minute since, and it had been trundling along like a lame cow; and now it was off as though drawn by Apollo's coursers. There is no telling what a man can ...

— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 20 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson

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