Word: halo
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...long, sleepless watches of the night A gentle face - the face of one dead Looks at me from the wall, where round its head The night-lamp casts a halo of pale light. Here in this room she died; and soul more white Never through martyrdom of fire was led To its repose...
...halo of his breath your mother knew him . . . loathing the touch
...scarcely a symphony or opera company is missing the chance to adorn itself with the Mozart halo. And the most readable biography of him was reissued (see below...
...Behind a crowd-catching corps of dancing drummers and yellow-painted naked men wearing tails to look like tigers, a horde of Hindus danced past the twin-spired Anglican cathedral. They moved on to the great statue of Ganesha, the elephant-headed god, round whose pachydermous head flared a halo of electric lights. Meanwhile, people crowded the hall of the legislative assembly to watch Christians trying to answer such needling questions as: "If a mission doctor prays to the Christian God before performing an operation on a Hindu patient, is that not insulting the patient's religion...
...glance, the little man could have been the caretaker or a gardener. He puffed meekly at his pipe; he sidled in quietly; he seldom spoke unless spoken to. But on a second look, a rare quality seemed to glow in that sad and wizened face, with its disordered halo of white hair and its soulful brown eyes. The quality was genius, a compound of soaring intellect and wide-ranging imagination that had carried Albert Einstein past the confines of man's old scientific certitudes and deeper into the material mysteries of the universe than any man before...