Literary notes about nimbus (AI summary)
The word "nimbus" traverses a broad spectrum of meanings in literature, often evoking both the ethereal and the natural. At times it adorns figures with a luminous halo, underscoring sacred or moral authority—as when a saint is portrayed with a celestial aureole ([1], [2], [3]). In other instances it becomes a metaphor for an ineffable aura, hinting at a quality or presence that skirts the limits of description ([4], [5]). The term is also embraced in its meteorological guise, with the gloomy cumulo-nimbus signifying impending rain or stormy moods ([6], [7]). Even more playfully, "Nimbus" emerges as a character's name in dialogue, highlighting the word’s versatility in both descriptive and nominative roles ([8], [9]).
- It seemed to Cosette that Marius had a crown, and to Marius that Cosette had a nimbus.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo - [Pg 270] the device, a draped male figure with nimbus, and standing before a cross appearing to spring from a bunch of grapes.
— from Finger-Ring Lore: Historical, Legendary, Anecdotal by Jones, William, F.S.A. - The 'glory' or nimbus around the head of the saints is a symbolic witness of their capacity to render divine homage.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda - In real poetry you find that something has been said, and yet you find also about it a sort of nimbus of what can't be said.
— from Literature in the Making, by Some of Its Makers - In the dazzled imagination of her subjects Victoria soared aloft towards the regions of divinity through a nimbus of purest glory.
— from Queen Victoria by Lytton Strachey - The formation of cumulo-nimbus and cumulus is dependent upon the presence of a large amount of water vapour.
— from Cloud Studies by Arthur William Clayden - The rain cloud is called the nimbus, and may be said to be the extension of a cumulo-stratus.
— from Familiar Talks on Science: World-Building and Life; Earth, Air and Water. by Elisha Gray - "Wal," said Nimbus, with some confusion, "I wuz afeared ter
— from Bricks Without Straw: A Novel by Albion Winegar Tourgée - And so the slave Nimbus was transformed, first into the "contraband" and mercenary soldier George Nimbus , and then by marriage into Nimbus Desmit .
— from Bricks Without Straw: A Novel by Albion Winegar Tourgée
