They are the most striking and lovely part of their outfit - a
halo don't BEGIN."
The only other thing that has been removed is the
halo round the head of the Child Jesus.
It was not actually raining, but each gas lamp had a rusty little
halo of mist.
By the light of the pale
halo that encircled the ghostly Presence, and moved with it, I could see the dark figure of the living woman seated immovable in the chair.
the lungs fill, and instantly discharge a shriek, or a yell, or a howl which bursts the listening ear and surprises the owner of it into saying words which would not go well with a
halo if he had one.
A sort of
halo, an occidental glow, came over life then.
He is surrounded by a mysterious
halo of family confidences, of which he is known to be the silent depository.
There was no beauty in this child; no
halo of romance brightened the commonplace horror of her story.
Such a man has a double existence: he may suffer misery and be overwhelmed by disappointments, yet when he has retired into himself, he will be like a celestial spirit that has a
halo around him, within whose circle no grief or folly ventures.
The firelight flashed and glittered on the silver ornaments of her dress; her neck and arms, with their burden of jewels, gleamed like porcelain in the semi-darkness outside the
halo of his student lamp.
His followers thronged round him; above his head the broad blades of their spears made a spiked
halo of iron points, and they hedged him from humanity by the shimmer of silks, the gleam of weapons, the excited and respectful hum of eager voices.
Approaching nearer and nearer yet, this
halo began to fade, and the causes which produced it slowly to develop themselves.