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Horizon

noun

The line at which the sky and Earth appear to meet. Synonyms: apparent horizon, sensible horizon, skyline, visible horizon.

The range of interest or activity that can be anticipated. Synonyms: purview, view.

A specific layer or stratum of soil or subsoil in a vertical cross section of land.

The great circle on the celestial sphere whose plane passes through the sensible horizon and the center of the Earth. Synonym: celestial horizon.

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"Horizon" Quotes from Famous Books

... as far as the highest point in sight, wading through the heather, among the rocks and great stones which in childhood I never doubted grew also, you saw before you nothing but a wide, wild level, whose horizon was here and there broken by low hills. But the seeming level was far from flat or smooth, as I found on the day of the adventure I am about to relate. I wonder I had never lost myself before. I suppose then first my legs ...

— The Flight of the Shadow • George MacDonald

... the train was an elephant, who walked the track ahead of us and when the engine whistled only put on speed. Hypnotized by the tracks that reached in parallel lines to the horizon, with trunk outstretched, ears up, and silly tail held horizontally he set himself the impossible task of leaving us behind. The more we cheered, the more the engine screamed, the fiercer and less dignified became his efforts; ...

— The Ivory Trail • Talbot Mundy

... of a business kind that he had made into those regions since his election was now adding seriously to his anxieties—might very well turn out, unless the matter were skilfully managed, to be one of the blackest spots on his horizon. ...

— Marcella • Mrs. Humphry Ward

... between the English masses and the people of Ireland, and in the better temper with which, despite the acrimony of some prominent politicians, the relations of the two peoples are discussed. When one looks round the horizon it is still far from clear; nor can we say from which quarter fair weather will arrive. But the air is fresher, and the ...

— Handbook of Home Rule (1887) • W. E. Gladstone et al.

... but without any bad effects following it.] In the year 1666 in the month of February, there appeared in this Countrey another Comet or stream in the West, the head end under the Horizon, much resembling that which was seen in England in the year 1680 in December. The sight of this did much daunt both King and People, having but a year or two before felt the sad event of a Blazing-Star in this Rebellion which I have now related. The King sent men upon the highest mountains in the ...

— An Historical Relation Of The Island Ceylon In The East Indies • Robert Knox

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