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  • Tonight, however, this place held a strange aura of foreboding.†   (source)
  • "You are blinded," said Dumbledore, his voice rising now, the aura of power around him palpable, his eyes blazing once more, "by the love of the office you hold, Cornelius!†   (source)
  • And yet, because of its vastness, the parlor floor still did retain the aura of a grand piano nobile.†   (source)
  • They have a strong aura, a scent that attracts monsters.†   (source)
  • The aura in the village rapidly changed after the speech.†   (source)
  • An aura of stale arguments almost visibly clings to the hasty clothing of the children.†   (source)
  • He wasn't that cute and he wasn't that interesting beyond the whole New Kid aura, and he definitely wasn't Ben Parish.†   (source)
  • She had some kind of energy or aura that was different.†   (source)
  • It made me happy, but I kept wondering about next spring, about whether khaki, or suntans or whatever the uniform of the season was, had this aura of promise in it.†   (source)
  • The dark recesses of the bar looked warm, comradely, that sentimental boozy aura that made you forget for a moment who you were and how you'd ended up there.†   (source)
  • No. HARRY looks at ALBUS, trying to see almost an aura around him, thinking deeply.†   (source)
  • It seemed to have an aura, a warmth, but also an inherent danger.†   (source)
  • The trees began to burn with a pinkish aura that soothed my eyes.†   (source)
  • He throws the top open, reaches in, removes a flat rock every bit as dark as the aura surrounding the Mogadorians.†   (source)
  • To me, Rosie's had an aura about it.†   (source)
  • Boo said he was full of positive aura.†   (source)
  • In Calumet a thousand ornate streetlamps stood in a swamp, where they did nothing but ignite the fog and summon auras of mosquitoes.†   (source)
  • He became more reclusive, and the aura around him, intentionally or not, only grew.†   (source)
  • A different aura to the house.†   (source)
  • Tom Lasater is ninety years old now, and his memory is failing, but he still has the aura of a strong patriarch.†   (source)
  • They would climb steep mountains, swim vast seas and destroy armies for you, deity of sauntering, Goddess of aura and bloom.†   (source)
  • Every photograph reinforces the aura.†   (source)
  • He had an aura of fury about him, of something keen and biting — "Meggie, get the bag out of the trunk."†   (source)
  • The elevation gave it the dignity of a stage and everything that happened there took on the aura and significance of performance.†   (source)
  • Some appear around the edge of the body, other auras cloak the body like an envelope.†   (source)
  • When she let her own eyes fall half-shut, she saw the shimmering aura of glamour that surrounded him, and wondered what they were seeing: Another patient?†   (source)
  • He had this incredible non-whining aura about him.†   (source)
  • She wore a diadem with a jewel that hung on her forehead, and the luminous stone was the same aloof color as her eyes, and everything in her breathed an aura of coolness.†   (source)
  • In the waiting silence, Paul studied the man, sensing the aura of power that radiated from him.†   (source)
  • A long time later we come to a town where a luminous haze which has seemed so natural over the ocean is now seen in the streets of the town, giving them a certain aura, a hazy sunny radiance that makes everything look nostalgic, as if remembered from years before.†   (source)
  • For one thing, the grumbling he usually kept up suddenly stopped and this silence alone gave him an alarming aura.†   (source)
  • An aura of manic purpose hung over the fields, for in them went forward a gleeful harvest performed by children only just freed from school.†   (source)
  • I thought Buddy might well be sitting in his own little murderous aura of TB germs.†   (source)
  • …that secured a heavy set of double fire-resistant doors, and as these doors opened the brightness of Dubai's desert sunlight overwhelmed the sensitivity of the image sensor and the four figures seemed to become thinner, insubstantial, lost in an aura of whiteness, but they were at that moment simultaneously captured on three exterior surveillance feeds, tiny characters stumbling onto a broad sidewalk, a promenade, along a one-way boulevard on which slowly cruised two expensive two-door…†   (source)
  • In permitting me to wear it, I think she was rubbing some of her aura off onto me.†   (source)
  • There was, unquestionably, an aura of spookiness, especially for one who was inclined to see and feel such things.†   (source)
  • The essence escapes but its aura remains.†   (source)
  • There was no land around, and no beings, but there was an aura of vague friendliness in this indifferent place.†   (source)
  • His mom kept her back to him, but he could feel her radiating the same aura he'd come to expect in recent weeks.†   (source)
  • But Smith, though he was the true murderer, aroused another response, for Perry possessed a quality, the aura of an exiled animal, a creature walking wounded, that the detective could not disregard.†   (source)
  • All through the day, as he interspersed his business matters with trips to the moskd, the heavy aura of his gloomy presence was still evident in his home.†   (source)
  • T'aura du to rendre compte d'ailleurs."†   (source)
  • Although MK was not active, the aura of the armed struggle had great meaning for many people.†   (source)
  • Despite the aura of expectation, the day proved to be utterly boring; Roran spent most of his time brushing Horst's mare.†   (source)
  • This was the second pillar of Blue Team's aura of invincibility.†   (source)
  • All my memories of her were human memories; an aura of artificiality clung to them.†   (source)
  • Standing in the light, surrounded by the dark beyond the reach of the lanterns, she seemed lit by the aura of the gods.†   (source)
  • I smell leather seats and a faint aura of crystal.†   (source)
  • And Mike in turn softened his martinet's aura with frequent outbursts of goofy, profane humor.†   (source)
  • You are surrounded by your own romantic aura, you lie cheek and jowl daily with the arcane.†   (source)
  • Unpleasant is now positively glowing in the aura of this boy's flirtations.†   (source)
  • And there was an aura of evil and mystery around the burning of the mill house that gave flight to my imagination every time I passed.†   (source)
  • She didn't exactly look like the Goddess Nyx—who I swear I'd seen in a vision the day I was Marked—but she had the Goddess's aura of strength and confidence.†   (source)
  • He emanated the aura of such advanced age that one could suppose he might have predated the great Mesopotamian cities of antiquity, the Chinese Empire, and several of the lesser mountain ranges like the Andes and the Alps (being merely a contemporary of the Himalayas).†   (source)
  • She still surrounded herself with the cynical aura of a dissolute past.†   (source)
  • What I mean is, the moment I saw him, saw his extraordinary aura and knew him to be no creature I'd ever known, I was reduced to nothing.†   (source)
  • She gave off an aura of melancholy and bewilderment, a scent of lavender and old clothes.†   (source)
  • In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine.†   (source)
  • The sight of barefoot peasants carrying impossible head loads and horse-drawn gharries plying the roads maintained the aura and mystique of this ancient kingdom that almost justified the fabulous tales of Prester John, who wrote in medieval times of a magical Christian kingdom surrounded by Muslim lands.†   (source)
  • Flawless pillars that shone in hues of ruby and sapphire and emerald and gold, lighting the path with an aura that Tom could almost feel.†   (source)
  • Now that all remaining patients had been moved and its medical staff transferred, its empty, decaying interiors had a ghostly aura.†   (source)
  • It must be the aura I exude.†   (source)
  • Her stare was direct, and Joe liked her for the aura of efficiency that she projected and for the crisp self-assurance in her voice.†   (source)
  • Whatever I may have understood or misunderstood in the dragon's talk, something much deeper stayed with me, became my aura.†   (source)
  • You have a very powerful aura about you, Max.†   (source)
  • Anyone who left behind that aura of fun and complicity?†   (source)
  • An aura of wisdom and dignity seemed to surround her that Ser Barristan could not help but admire.†   (source)
  • CIA director Alan Dulles, an urbane and wealthy gentleman in his late sixties, epitomizes that aura of secrecy and covert intrigue.†   (source)
  • These angels are bigger than the others in the club—taller, beefier, with an aura of casual danger that the others don't have.†   (source)
  • The fur was a soft brown, dimmed by an aura of blue that could not be seen, only felt like an enveloping mist, like a suggestion of color grasped not by one's eyes but by one's hands, as if one felt, without contact, the sensation of sinking one's palms into the fur's softness.†   (source)
  • There was nothing understated or subtle about me, and my aura was one of energy, restlessness, and inadmissability.†   (source)
  • You've got this, like, I don't know, this aura thing going on.†   (source)
  • Yet Figeroa maintained an aura of authority always.†   (source)
  • But when he came back late at night, the magic had all but abandoned his face and his step, the aura was gone, the lilt, and I could smell the animal of him as he walked past my bedroom door in the short hall, the stink of sweat and ruined vegetables and the ashen city penetrating me like an epochal sickness.†   (source)
  • I'm glad that I have retained an aura of mystery.†   (source)
  • Horoscopes, New Age baloney, magic, auras, all of it.†   (source)
  • He knew the original Shard at once from the warmth and strength that it exuded, but this second one intrigued him as well, holding an impressive aura of power of its own.†   (source)
  • An aura, a power, an elemental, even animalistic ability to exude sex.†   (source)
  • Vivienne, on the other hand, had a sager aura about her and I couldn't help but feel some sort of reverence toward her.†   (source)
  • His ruff expanded until it made a huge silvery aura framing his face.†   (source)
  • He had managed to create around it the same aura of ritual reluctance here, offstage, as he had on.†   (source)
  • This increased the romantic aura through which I saw him, for I had become fascinated with the Gothicaspects of death since arriving in Baltimore.†   (source)
  • Horace felt strange talking like this to such a young man, but Will Hamilton had an aura of success about him.†   (source)
  • One group of thoughts centered around Tonia, their home, and their former, settled life where everything, down to the smallest detail, had an aura of poetry and was permeated with affection and warmth.†   (source)
  • John Osborne, watching, sensed disaster round it like an aura; better follow on at a safe distance for a while and see what happened.†   (source)
  • Eugene felt an almost palpable aura of a disgrace or sadness that had to be as ever-present as the skin is, of hiding and flaunting together.†   (source)
  • Tall, broad-shouldered, determined, exuding a tremendous aura of charm and power.†   (source)
  • The psychic says she has a bright yellow aura.
  • Maybe it's smelling him, picking up on his chemical aura.†   (source)
  • New dress, new makeup, glowing pink aura, and boom: suddenly people liked her.†   (source)
  • Thalia pressed Luke back with the aura of her shield.†   (source)
  • The girl gave off an aura of distinct dottiness.†   (source)
  • Meg now had an elfish springtime aura that reminded me very much of a dryad.†   (source)
  • The residual life aura can interfere with spells?†   (source)
  • All steles had a sort of aura to them, a ghostly imprint of their owner's personality.†   (source)
  • You'll forgive me for saying so, my dear, but I perceive very little aura around you.†   (source)
  • The evil aura radiating from Tantalus was as strong as any monster I'd ever faced.†   (source)
  • Although it no longer spoke to him, he felt a comforting aura in its presence.†   (source)
  • Sophie suddenly realized that she was seeing the goddess's aura.†   (source)
  • Professor Trelawney said you didn't have the right aura!†   (source)
  • -un-groovy karma that disrupted the school's educational aura.†   (source)
  • Although it isn't, not here: even after fifty years it retains its aura of brimstone and taboo.†   (source)
  • Above all he wanted the exposition landscape to produce an aura of "mysterious poetic effect."†   (source)
  • An aura surrounded her, growing larger, like a bubble of energy, and lifting her off the ground.†   (source)
  • He seem ed to be watching me, one department head measuring the aura of another.†   (source)
  • He still had about him the aura of rage that even murder cannot quell.†   (source)
  • There's an aura of death around you—a thick possibility of death."†   (source)
  • The whole coffin gave off an aura of extreme cold, like I was walking into a freezer.†   (source)
  • Until we reached the pond the pain was my world, an aura that haloed me for three feet around.†   (source)
  • If we find one with a very strong aura, like a child of the Big Three, we alert Chiron.†   (source)
  • His fiery aura was heating up the whole courtyard, countering Khione's winter magic.†   (source)
  • To the north, even farther away, I saw a distant red glow and I knew it was the aura of Set.†   (source)
  • On Half-Blood Hill, a silver aura surrounded the Athena Parthenos.†   (source)
  • The bloody star, centered on Saunière's navel, gave his corpse a distinctly ghoulish aura.†   (source)
  • That is one aura I could settle down with and raise a herd of baby goats.†   (source)
  • It's just reacting when it hits your aura.†   (source)
  • Hades's aura was affecting me, just as Ares's had.†   (source)
  • His trainer was always there, his friends drawn to the aura of inspired risk.†   (source)
  • The shadowy ghosts parted for her, scattering before the terrible aura of her shield.†   (source)
  • Opening her eyes wide, Perenelle concentrated on her own aura.†   (source)
  • I did not want an aura of death hanging over me.†   (source)
  • The compliment seemed a little over the top, but Mellie the aura blushed.†   (source)
  • I felt myself rising off the ground and the golden aura of the hawk warrior forming around me.†   (source)
  • Night was falling now, and the house exuded a warm and inviting aura.†   (source)
  • Piper stared, but it was definitely her: the aura who'd helped them escape from Aeolus's fortress.†   (source)
  • Meg had another sort of aura …. one I would have been able to recognize easily if I were a god.†   (source)
  • Outside, the dawn was coming fast, its crimson aura gathering off the starboard.†   (source)
  • Sophie's aura began to glow, silver mist rising off her skin like fog off a lake.†   (source)
  • She tumbled to a stop without getting hurt, but her blue aura was flickering.†   (source)
  • Sophie opened her mouth and screamed, her aura blazing with silver incandescence.†   (source)
  • Perhaps she was using some sort of magic aura, or perhaps I just didn't want to believe it was her.†   (source)
  • Last person I knew to have a pure silver aura was the woman you know as Joan of Arc.†   (source)
  • Then the Alchemyst closed his eyes and his aura flared around his body.†   (source)
  • Her natural aura was a pale ice white, which acted like a beacon for the dead, drawing them to her.†   (source)
  • Everyone's aura is unique different colors, different strengths.†   (source)
  • Dee was outlined in a sickly yellow aura.†   (source)
  • Dee allowed a little energy to trickle into his aura.†   (source)
  • The ghosts came then, drawn to her ice white aura like moths to a flame.†   (source)
  • She deliberately allowed her anger to surge into her aura.†   (source)
  • As humans evolved, most lost the ability to see the aura.†   (source)
  • The more powerful the aura, the greater the magic.†   (source)
  • Flamel said that we'll be able to see the magical aura that surrounds people.†   (source)
  • I could actually feel her pouring her aura into me, she said in awe.†   (source)
  • They re heading south; I can just about make out the silver traces of her aura.†   (source)
  • It is concentrated air mixed with my own aura.†   (source)
  • Nicholas Flamel allowed a little of his growing anger to seep into his aura.†   (source)
  • Sophie's aura had flared pure silver around her body.†   (source)
  • As she spoke, Sophie's aura began to glow, a misty silver light outlining her body.†   (source)
  • My aura is rarer than yours, Josh deliberately teased his sister to break the somber mood.†   (source)
  • Her ice-white aura flared around her body like a second skin.†   (source)
  • The girl's aura shivered and fizzed with each gentle touch.†   (source)
  • His aura flared green and the air was suddenly bitter with the odor of mint.†   (source)
  • My aura the electrical field that surrounds my body is still charged.†   (source)
  • The aura has even been photographed by a Russian couple called the Kirlians.†   (source)
  • It also means you must have a powerful aura.†   (source)
  • In the distant past, people could see it clearly and they named it the aura.†   (source)
  • But what exactly does it mean to have pure-colored auras?†   (source)
  • The next image on the sword showed the twins auras flaring silver and gold.†   (source)
  • Hekate confirmed my suspicions a few hours later when she made your auras visible.†   (source)
  • The goddess was checking your auras, Scathach said.†   (source)
  • The girl has one of the purest silver auras I've encountered in many an age.†   (source)
  • I've never come across the two auras together, and never in twins.†   (source)
  • It is no coincidence that your auras are pure gold and silver.†   (source)
  • That's the magical field feeding off your auras.†   (source)
  • Don't be too concerned, however: your particular auras are exceptionally strong.†   (source)
  • It has been many centuries since I've encountered auras so pure.†   (source)
  • Or he could press on, given they had not laughed and still seemed to see some aura around him.†   (source)
  • The aura of improbable if not for-bidden love.†   (source)
  • Kaeleigh roused at his words, came into the moment, secure in the aura of Daddy's love.†   (source)
  • You have an aura of kindness and patience.†   (source)
  • She had an aura of self-confidence and competency—which he would absolutely shatter.†   (source)
  • In the moonlight, your aura shines and flickers like those from our realm … and others.†   (source)
  • One looked right at me, and I sensed an unmistakable aura of malice.†   (source)
  • The meeting had the aura of a press conference.†   (source)
  • "Some dark magic leaves an aura that reeks like demons," Jace said.†   (source)
  • You'd have a powerful aura that would attract all kinds of monsters.†   (source)
  • Sedona clung to the aura of town rather than city.†   (source)
  • Reyna stared in amazement at the Athena Parthenos, glowing with a faint golden aura.†   (source)
  • So you can even replicate a creature's aura?" asked Max.†   (source)
  • Edgar was a presence only, a uniformed aura in regimental black-and-whites.†   (source)
  • Rachel Dare glowed in a green aura, as if hit by a soft emerald spotlight.†   (source)
  • We cannot speak to each other with our thoughts but I can pick up his …. aura, you could call it.†   (source)
  • And there's something else you should be worried about if you have no aura.†   (source)
  • A smee's greatest skill is his ability to mimic another creature's aura.†   (source)
  • Instead, her aura expanded, filling the room.†   (source)
  • My father, glowing with a blue aura of power, rode a defiant circle around the giant's legs.†   (source)
  • When he reached the top of the ruins, he felt a familiar aura of magical power.†   (source)
  • You think Casanova is enjoying this Invasion of the Body Snatchers aura?†   (source)
  • Its size had startled me, its aura of seriousness and the big time.†   (source)
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