Sample Sentences for
aurora borealis
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  • Who else could make the colors of the aurora borealis rise off my skin where he strokes my forearm?  (source)
  • It was like the aurora borealis.  (source)
  • Downtown is before them, as high and bright as the aurora borealis rising from the black water of the Bering Sea.  (source)
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  • With the aurora borealis flaming coldly overhead, or the stars leaping in the frost dance, and the land numb and frozen under its pall of snow, this song of the huskies might have been the defiance of life, only it was pitched in minor key, with long-drawn wailings and half-sobs, and was more the pleading of life, the articulate travail of existence.  (source)
    aurora borealis = also known as the northern lights; the luminous, radiant emission from the upper atmosphere seen on clear winter nights -- usually above the north magnetic pole
  • That night the sky shimmered green and blue and red with aurora borealis.  (source)
  • Norway to see Aurora Borealis  (source)
  • And the Aurora Borealis was out.  (source)
  • In Louisville, it's said that if the bourbon is blended just right, a man can see the aurora borealis without leaving his front porch.  (source)
  • I've heard about the aurora borealis, and I've often wondered whether it looked like this.  (source)
  • I tell ye that when they got here they'd be jommlin' and jostlin' one another that way that it 'ud be like a fight up on the ice in the old days, when we'd be at one another from daylight to dark, an' tryin' to tie up our cuts by the aurora borealis.†  (source)
  • He saw the aurora borealis, meteor showers over tumbling black waves, night skies so clear the stars seemed within reach, hung from a ceiling by fishing wire.†  (source)
  • Crac, and behold an aurora borealis, behold a revolution, behold a great man; '93 in big letters, Napoleon on guard, the comet of 1811 at the head of the poster.†  (source)
  • If like the curtains of the aurora borealis the walls of rooms would give even the illusion of lifting-if they would threaten to go up.†  (source)
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