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  • Their joy created an aura almost visible against the deepening sky.  (source)
    aura = a distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing
  • Even though he was beat up, dirty, and stooped with exhaustion, he'd had an aura of power.  (source)
  • I have searched for his aura many times.  (source)
    aura = paranormal:  a radiant light surrounding a person that is said to be seen by those sensitive to another's life force
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  • That explains the aura of sophistication.†  (source)
  • Some appear around the edge of the body, other auras cloak the body like an envelope.†  (source)
  • Perhaps it is that high achievements demand some other unusual qualification besides an unusual desire for high prizes; perhaps it is that these stalwart gentlemen are rather indolent, their divinae particulum aurae being obstructed from soaring by a too hearty appetite.†  (source)
  • Although it isn't, not here: even after fifty years it retains its aura of brimstone and taboo.†  (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)
  • Romans lounged in groups of ten or twenty, talking and laughing while wind spirits—aurae—swirled overhead, bringing an endless assortment of pizzas, sandwiches, chips, cold drinks, and fresh-baked cookies.†  (source)
  • Thus, the very precipitation that might have soured the evening, instead lends it an aura of magic.†  (source)
  • Facilis descensus Averno; Noctes atque dies patet atri ianua Ditis; Sed revocare gradum superasque evadere ad auras, Hoc opus, hic labor est. —Virgil, The Aeneid   There was a moment of astonished silence before both Clary and Jace began speaking at once.†  (source)
  • Just for a moment, one of the aurae became visible—an elfin girl in a white silk dress.†  (source)
  • There was an aura in that house that made me feel instinctively, without ever being told, that I was not to shout, not to hit anyone or tear through the kitchen at full speed.†  (source)
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