They seem to live in the fire of stained glass, borrowing from the flaming whirlwind of the rose-windows the circles of their aureoles.
"En Route"
J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans
His talk was all of gilded aureoles and beatific visions; he lived on weak wine and biscuits, and wore a lock of Saint Somebody's hair in a little bag round his neck.
"Roderick Hudson"
Henry James
Balzac, it must be allowed, was not always tactful in his descriptions of the perfections of the Hanska family, who were, of course, in his eyes, surrounded with aureoles borrowed from the light of his "polar star."
"Honore de Balzac, His Life and Writings"
Mary F. Sandars