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an atmospheric phenomenon consisting of bands of light caused by charged solar particles following the earth's magnetic lines of force

I saw an aurora while we were in Alaska.

First a dawnlight, a great aurora glory massing on the color monitor.
Don DeLillo -- Underworld
Why, that's what it really is, I'm sure-a great auroral storm.
Arthur C. Clarke -- Childhood's End
My sight returned to me when I awoke in the pigsty, in the red and black aurora of flesh, and it was day.
Eudora Welty -- The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
The Aurora's whistle hooted a final announcement of departure.
Jack London -- White Fang
THE AURORA AND THE POLESTAR.
Henry H. Neff -- The Maelstrom
By the aid of the Casterbridge aurora, and by feeling with her hands, the woman selected two sticks from the heaps.
Thomas Hardy -- Far from the Madding Crowd
A glimpse, a pale shimmer on the air; a glow, aurora, dance of electrons, then a face again, faces.
Margaret Atwood -- The Handmaid's Tale
Outside, the morning was bright but muted behind David's great curtain of mist that rose shimmering above the sea like an earthbound aurora.
Henry H. Neff -- The Second Siege
The killings took place in Aurora, Colorado, at closing time, and police later arrived to find a macabre scene.
Eric Schlosser -- Fast Food Nation
This was a case study of turf struggle between Nova Siciia and Narcolombia franchises in his old neighborhood in Aurora.
Neal Stephenson -- Snow Crash
Stellan—Professor Sigurdsson—and I once shared a long voyage with him in the southern isles on a ship called the Aurora.
James A. Owen -- Here, There be Dragons
A vast dawn of ideas is the peculiarity of our century, and in that aurora England and Germany have a magnificent radiance.
Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables
AURORA Earlier today me and Cut drove down to South River and bought some more smoke.
Junot Diaz -- Drown
It resembles the prank of boys, who run with fire engines to put out the ruddy aurora streaming to the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Selected Essays
By the blushes of Aurora and the music of Memnon, what should be man's morning work in this world?
Henry David Thoreau -- Walden
He drove out across the Aurora Bridge, to West Seattle, and down to Alki Beach.
Carl Deuker -- Gym Candy
Werner's favorite is one about light: eclipses and sundials, auroras and wavelengths.
Anthony Doerr -- All the Light We Cannot See
The hotel was excellent–incomparably better, for example, than that horrible Aurora Bora Palace in which Lenina had suffered so much the previous summer.
Aldous Huxley -- Brave New World
Here at the Aurora's summit, shielded by a glass observation dome, I had a three-sixty view of the sky around and above the ship.
Kenneth Oppel -- Airborn

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