Nimbi

Not we, exactly, but our holy antecedents, whose bright nimbi gleam undimmed despite their weeping. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Its midnight ceiling showed the Ku nebula with its twinkling gold sparks swimming within fat undulating jade and sapphire nimbi. ❋ Hamilton, Peter F. (2007)

There were large nimbi and small nimbi about their drooping heads, but the face was always the same. ❋ Unknown (2006)

We set out at seven a.m. on the next day, when an Azyab or south-easterly wind was promised by the damp air, the slaty sea, and the gloomy nimbi on the hill-tops. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Sinai hills clouded over: cirri strata high up; nimbi in fragments below. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Another look and they are no more, just towering cumuli-nimbi, strafing the foothills with the lashes of the gods. ❋ Modesitt, L. E. (1992)

The remaining effigies are depicted on the foreheads, hands and nimbi of the larger ones. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

I have printed _nimbiferi_ in preference to _nubiferi_ because Jupiter is linked with _nimbi_ at two other passages. ❋ 43 BC-18? Ovid (N/A)

The gold thread which is freely made use of all over the cope, upon the draperies, nimbi, and surrounding foliage, is marvellously bright and sparkling, although nearly six hundred years old. ❋ Grace Christie (N/A)

The stitches in every part run in zig-zags, the vestments, and even the nimbi about the heads, are all executed with the stitches slanting in one direction, from the centre of the cope outward, without consideration of the positions of the figures. ❋ Julia De Wolf Gibbs Addison (N/A)

Device, the Virgin and Child, their heads surrounded with nimbi; the former holds in her right hand three lilies, the latter a globe and cross. ❋ Various (N/A)

Proteos et septem despectat cornua Nili. hunc neque canentes audent uestire pruinae nec uenti pulsare, timent hunc laedere nimbi; ❋ Claudian (1912)

[Musical excerpt -- "siam nimbi volanti dai limbi, nei santi"] ❋ Henry Edward Krehbiel (1888)

No wandering clouds: -- over far Pelée only a shadowy piling of nimbi .... ❋ Lafcadio Hearn (1877)

The gilding of the _nimbi_ seemed well done certainly, and was still bright, but to the ordinary eye the stiffness of the figures, the lack of grace, the absence of soul in the composition was distressingly apparent. ❋ Richard Jefferies (1867)

There were saints with glories or _nimbi_ round their heads, Madonnas and kneeling Magi, the manger under a kind of penthouse, and similar subjects -- subjects the highest that could be chosen. ❋ Richard Jefferies (1867)

Towards D the sun is rarely seen during the rainy season, as well from the constant presence of nimbi aloft, as from fog on the surface of the ground. ❋ Unknown (1864)

The early mornings were bright with views northwards of blue sky and Kinchinjhow, while to the south the lofty peak of Tukcham, though much nearer, was seldom seen, and black cumuli and nimbi rolled up the steep valley of the Lachen to be dissipated in mist over Tallum. ❋ Unknown (1864)

Although the community [council] supported the [zoning] change, the NIMBYs argued strongly against the expansion of the [trailer park] ❋ Hammer Hands (2006)

Other forms of NIMBY include the NOPE ([Not On] [Planet Earth]), the BANANA (Build [Absolutely Nothing] Anywhere Near Anyone), and the TEDAO (Tear Everything Down At Once). ❋ Shreve Lamb And Harmon (2005)

We wanted to build a bunch of [windmills] near city Y, but those NIMBY idiots keep [blocking] our [plans]. ❋ Minusforty (2008)

1) They were proposing to build a freeway through Vancouver in the 1960s, but the stupid NIMBYs from [Gastown] and Chinatown got pissed and the project got posponed due to [NIMBYism], now Vancouver is full of dogways! 2) They want to build Skytrain to Richmond on Cambie St. and the NIMBYs are pissed off already! 3) Man Vancouver has alot of [dogway] loving NIMBYs!!! ❋ Nimbys_suck (2003)

NIMBYs [cause] [a lot of things] to not [get done]. ❋ Korora (2003)

NIMBY ❋ Planetdownunder (2010)

[Yo u] just rolled a [shitty ass] blunt it looks like the nimbis 500 from harry potter. Why the fuck did we let you roll its always a nimbis. Who the fuck gave the blunt to this nimbis [roller]. ❋ Mike Ivory (2007)

[Farmer John] lobbied to have the wind [turbines] built father away from his house so he could sleep [through the night], but the people from the city accused him of being a NIMBY and told him to deal with it ❋ Farmer_John (2012)

Do you see that [nimbie] over there [drooling] on himself. Yeah dude he is the biggest nimbie I've seen [by far]. ❋ Nimbei5000 (2017)

[I moved] next to Los Angeles International Airport in 1994, and the noise is incredible! I'm going to set up an action group. We will then complain to the local authorities and FORCE the airlines to spend MILLIONS just to keep the noise down. (I should have used my BRAIN before purchasing a house under the flightpath! The local [racetrack] was here BEFORE I WAS BORN, and in actual fact has EVERY RIGHT to [make noise]. For some reason I didn't wonder why the house was so cheap in the first place .....) ❋ I P Freely (2005)