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aurora borealis
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  • That night the sky shimmered green and blue and red with aurora borealis.  (source)
  • Who else could make the colors of the aurora borealis rise off my skin where he strokes my forearm?  (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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  • Norway to see Aurora Borealis  (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
  • It was like the aurora borealis.  (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)
  • And the Aurora Borealis was out.  (source)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • He took us to a night club where they rolled out a sheet of honest-to-God ice on the floor and a bevy of "Nordic Nymphs" in silver gee-strings and silver brassieres came skating out on real skates to whirl and fandango and cavort and sway to the music under the housebroke aurora borealis with the skates flashing and the white knees flashing and white arms serpentining in the blue light, and the little twin, hard-soft columns of muscle and flesh up the backbones of the bare backs swaying and working in a beautiful reciprocal motion, and what was business under the silver brassieres vibrating to music, and the long unbound unsnooded silver innocent Swedish hair trailing and floating and whippi†  (source)
  • Babbitt sighed, "I don't know how it strikes you hellions, but personally I like this busting loose for a change, and kicking over a couple of mountains and climbing up on the North Pole and waving the aurora borealis around."†  (source)
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