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Examples

  • She raised herself on her pillow, the long hair mantling her shoulders and aureoling the death-like face.

    Tess of the Storm Country Grace Miller White 1912

  • Myles Crawford appeared on the steps, his hat aureoling his scarlet face, talking with J.J. O'Molloy.

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

  • Hard after them Myles Crawford appeared on the steps, his hat aureoling his scarlet face, talking with J.J. O’Molloy. —

    Ulysses 2003

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  • A bevy of scampering newsboys rushed down the steps, scattering in all directions, yelling, their white papers fluttering. Hard after them Myles Crawford appeared on the steps, his hat aureoling his scarlet face....

    --James Joyce, 1922, Ulysses

    January 6, 2008

  • A great one! How could I have missed it? Well, I did catch aureole ... but to find it used as a verb is just thrilling ... Thanks.

    January 6, 2008

  • Glad to be of service. On the monovocalic and palindromic fronts, how about tattarrattat?

    January 6, 2008