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  • They have a strong aura, a scent that attracts monsters.†   (source)
  • Tonight, however, this place held a strange aura of foreboding.†   (source)
  • You'll forgive me for saying so, my dear, but I perceive very little aura around you.†   (source)
  • And yet, because of its vastness, the parlor floor still did retain the aura of a grand piano nobile.†   (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)
  • She had some kind of energy or aura that was different.†   (source)
  • He became more reclusive, and the aura around him, intentionally or not, only grew.†   (source)
  • At last, I was free to venture backstage, where I had grown used to the aura of spiritual calm surrounding Owen Meany at the makeup mirror.†   (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 elevation gave it the dignity of a stage and everything that happened there took on the aura and significance of performance.†   (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)
  • It seemed to have an aura, a warmth, but also an inherent danger.†   (source)
  • No. HARRY looks at ALBUS, trying to see almost an aura around him, thinking deeply.†   (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)
  • He throws the top open, reaches in, removes a flat rock every bit as dark as the aura surrounding the Mogadorians.†   (source)
  • For one thing, the grumbling he usually kept up suddenly stopped and this silence alone gave him an alarming aura.†   (source)
  • A different aura to the house.†   (source)
  • He had an aura of fury about him, of something keen and biting — "Meggie, get the bag out of the trunk."†   (source)
  • They would climb steep mountains, swim vast seas and destroy armies for you, deity of sauntering, Goddess of aura and bloom.†   (source)
  • The aura in the village rapidly changed after the speech.†   (source)
  • To me, Rosie's had an aura about it.†   (source)
  • In permitting me to wear it, I think she was rubbing some of her aura off onto me.†   (source)
  • He had this incredible non-whining aura about him.†   (source)
  • Some appear around the edge of the body, other auras cloak the body like an envelope.†   (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)
  • The trees began to burn with a pinkish aura that soothed my eyes.†   (source)
  • was picked up again by a second camera, traversing a hallway and pushing the horizontal bars 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 automobiles, one yellow, one red, the whining of their revving engines indirectly visible in the way the†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Boo said he was full of positive aura.†   (source)
  • All my memories of her were human memories; an aura of artificiality clung to them.†   (source)
  • She gave off an aura of melancholy and bewilderment, a scent of lavender and old clothes.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • I thought Buddy might well be sitting in his own little murderous aura of TB germs.†   (source)
  • In the waiting silence, Paul studied the man, sensing the aura of power that radiated from him.†   (source)
  • Every photograph reinforces the aura.†   (source)
  • Spirits from beyond the grave were always surrounded by bright angelic light and enveloped in an aura of peace and tranquillity.†   (source)
  • Tom Lasater is ninety years old now, and his memory is failing, but he still has the aura of a strong patriarch.†   (source)
  • T'aura du to rendre compte d'ailleurs.†   (source)
  • I smell leather seats and a faint aura of crystal.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Standing in the light, surrounded by the dark beyond the reach of the lanterns, she seemed lit by the aura of the gods.†   (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)
  • In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine.†   (source)
  • Whatever I may have understood or misunderstood in the dragon's talk, something much deeper stayed with me, became my aura.†   (source)
  • The essence escapes but its aura remains.†   (source)
  • There was, unquestionably, an aura of spookiness, especially for one who was inclined to see and feel such things.†   (source)
  • You have a very powerful aura about you, Max.†   (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)
  • She still surrounded herself with the cynical aura of a dissolute past.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • There was no land around, and no beings, but there was an aura of vague friendliness in this indifferent place.†   (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)
  • And Mike in turn softened his martinet's aura with frequent outbursts of goofy, profane humor.†   (source)
  • An aura, a power, an elemental, even animalistic ability to exude sex.†   (source)
  • You are surrounded by your own romantic aura, you lie cheek and jowl daily with the arcane.†   (source)
  • Anyone who left behind that aura of fun and complicity?†   (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)
  • There were four police cars lined up in the circular drive, their roof lights revolving, conveying the aura of emergency.†   (source)
  • An aura of wisdom and dignity seemed to surround her that Ser Barristan could not help but admire.†   (source)
  • Yet Figeroa maintained an aura of authority always.†   (source)
  • Although MK was not active, the aura of the armed struggle had great meaning for many people.†   (source)
  • You've got this, like, I don't know, this aura thing going on.†   (source)
  • Now that all remaining patients had been moved and its medical staff transferred, its empty, decaying interiors had a ghostly aura.†   (source)
  • I'm glad that I have retained an aura of mystery.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Unpleasant is now positively glowing in the aura of this boy's flirtations.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • There was nothing understated or subtle about me, and my aura was one of energy, restlessness, and inadmissability.†   (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)
  • He had managed to create around it the same aura of ritual reluctance here, offstage, as he had on.†   (source)
  • His ruff expanded until it made a huge silvery aura framing his face.†   (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)
  • 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.
  • Thalia pressed Luke back with the aura of her shield.†   (source)
  • Maybe it's smelling him, picking up on his chemical aura.†   (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 evil aura radiating from Tantalus was as strong as any monster I'd ever faced.†   (source)
  • One looked right at me, and I sensed an unmistakable aura of malice.†   (source)
  • New dress, new makeup, glowing pink aura, and boom: suddenly people liked her.†   (source)
  • That is one aura I could settle down with and raise a herd of baby goats.†   (source)
  • Although it no longer spoke to him, he felt a comforting aura in its presence.†   (source)
  • My father, glowing with a blue aura of power, rode a defiant circle around the giant's legs.†   (source)
  • An aura of stale arguments almost visibly clings to the hasty clothing of the children.†   (source)
  • Above all he wanted the exposition landscape to produce an aura of "mysterious poetic effect."†   (source)
  • The whole coffin gave off an aura of extreme cold, like I was walking into a freezer.†   (source)
  • Sophie's aura began to glow, silver mist rising off her skin like fog off a lake.†   (source)
  • Hades's aura was affecting me, just as Ares's had.†   (source)
  • He thinks of her name, an electric aura circling it — a sexual buzz like blue neon.†   (source)
  • Thus, the very precipitation that might have soured the evening, instead lends it an aura of magic.†   (source)
  • He still had about him the aura of rage that even murder cannot quell.†   (source)
  • On Half-Blood Hill, a silver aura surrounded the Athena Parthenos.†   (source)
  • Professor Trelawney said you didn't have the right aura!†   (source)
  • The shadowy ghosts parted for her, scattering before the terrible aura of her shield.†   (source)
  • Nicholas Flamel allowed a little of his growing anger to seep into his aura.†   (source)
  • Meg had another sort of aura ...one I would have been able to recognize easily if I were a god.†   (source)
  • The bloody star, centered on Saunière's navel, gave his corpse a distinctly ghoulish aura.†   (source)
  • The compliment seemed a little over the top, but Mellie the aura blushed.†   (source)
  • "Rachel," Nico said, "your life aura almost faded completely.†   (source)
  • Although it isn't, not here: even after fifty years it retains its aura of brimstone and taboo.†   (source)
  • -un-groovy karma that disrupted the school's educational aura.†   (source)
  • If we find one with a very strong aura, like a child of the Big Three, we alert Chiron.†   (source)
  • As she spoke, Sophie's aura began to glow, a misty silver light outlining her body.†   (source)
  • There's an aura of death around you—a thick possibility of death.†   (source)
  • Athena stepped close to me, and I could feel her aura of power making my skin itch.†   (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)
  • An aura of red fire flickered around her.†   (source)
  • Her ice-white aura flared around her body like a second skin.†   (source)
  • I did not want an aura of death hanging over me.†   (source)
  • His fiery aura was heating up the whole courtyard, countering Khione's winter magic.†   (source)
  • Outside, the dawn was coming fast, its crimson aura gathering off the starboard.†   (source)
  • An aura of energy surrounded Luke, growing brighter and brighter.†   (source)
  • My aura the electrical field that surrounds my body is still charged.†   (source)
  • Dee was outlined in a sickly yellow aura.†   (source)
  • It also means you must have a powerful aura.†   (source)
  • My aura is rarer than yours, Josh deliberately teased his sister to break the somber mood.†   (source)
  • Sophie suddenly realized that she was seeing the goddess's aura.†   (source)
  • Everyone's aura is unique different colors, different strengths.†   (source)
  • She deliberately allowed her anger to surge into her aura.†   (source)
  • Last person I knew to have a pure silver aura was the woman you know as Joan of Arc.†   (source)
  • Opening her eyes wide, Perenelle concentrated on her own aura.†   (source)
  • The aura has even been photographed by a Russian couple called the Kirlians.†   (source)
  • Sophie opened her mouth and screamed, her aura blazing with silver incandescence.†   (source)
  • Flamel said that we'll be able to see the magical aura that surrounds people.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • In the distant past, people could see it clearly and they named it the aura.†   (source)
  • I could actually feel her pouring her aura into me, she said in awe.†   (source)
  • The more powerful the aura, the greater the magic.†   (source)
  • Sophie's aura had flared pure silver around her body.†   (source)
  • His aura flared green and the air was suddenly bitter with the odor of mint.†   (source)
  • The girl's aura shivered and fizzed with each gentle touch.†   (source)
  • It is concentrated air mixed with my own aura.†   (source)
  • As humans evolved, most lost the ability to see the aura.†   (source)
  • It's just reacting when it hits your aura.†   (source)
  • They re heading south; I can just about make out the silver traces of her aura.†   (source)
  • The girl has one of the purest silver auras I've encountered in many an age.†   (source)
  • Hekate confirmed my suspicions a few hours later when she made your auras visible.†   (source)
  • It is no coincidence that your auras are pure gold and silver.†   (source)
  • The next image on the sword showed the twins auras flaring silver and gold.†   (source)
  • The goddess was checking your auras, Scathach said.†   (source)
  • It has been many centuries since I've encountered auras so pure.†   (source)
  • Don't be too concerned, however: your particular auras are exceptionally strong.†   (source)
  • I've never come across the two auras together, and never in twins.†   (source)
  • That's the magical field feeding off your auras.†   (source)
  • But what exactly does it mean to have pure-colored auras?†   (source)
  • She had an aura of self-confidence and competency—which he would absolutely shatter.†   (source)
  • The aura of improbable if not for-bidden love.†   (source)
  • All steles had a sort of aura to them, a ghostly imprint of their owner's personality.†   (source)
  • Or he could press on, given they had not laughed and still seemed to see some aura around him.†   (source)
  • In the moonlight, your aura shines and flickers like those from our realm ...and others.†   (source)
  • You have an aura of kindness and patience.†   (source)
  • The meeting had the aura of a press conference.†   (source)
  • "Some dark magic leaves an aura that reeks like demons," Jace said.†   (source)
  • Kaeleigh roused at his words, came into the moment, secure in the aura of Daddy's love.†   (source)
  • The residual life aura can interfere with spells?†   (source)
  • His aura wasn't detected.... "Our particular talent," declared Toby proudly.†   (source)
  • Does your aura extend a few meters from you?†   (source)
  • Edgar was a presence only, a uniformed aura in regimental black-and-whites.†   (source)
  • Sedona clung to the aura of town rather than city.†   (source)
  • When he reached the top of the ruins, he felt a familiar aura of magical power.†   (source)
  • Rachel Dare glowed in a green aura, as if hit by a soft emerald spotlight.†   (source)
  • You think Casanova is enjoying this Invasion of the Body Snatchers aura?†   (source)
  • So you can even replicate a creature's aura?" asked Max.†   (source)
  • She tumbled to a stop without getting hurt, but her blue aura was flickering.†   (source)
  • He seem ed to be watching me, one department head measuring the aura of another.†   (source)
  • Instead, her aura expanded, filling the room.†   (source)
  • Reyna stared in amazement at the Athena Parthenos, glowing with a faint golden aura.†   (source)
  • We cannot speak to each other with our thoughts but I can pick up his ....aura, you could call it.†   (source)
  • You'd have a powerful aura that would attract all kinds of monsters.†   (source)
  • I realized my glowing aura had done more than blind the wolf.†   (source)
  • Until we reached the pond the pain was my world, an aura that haloed me for three feet around.†   (source)
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