Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The circle which bounds the view of the observer at sea.
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Examples
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At last she was able to take her eyes from the surf and gaze at the sea-horizon of deepest peacock-blue and piled with cloud-masses, at the curve of the beach south to the jagged point of rocks, and at the rugged blue mountains seen across soft low hills, landward, up Carmel Valley.
CHAPTER VI 2010
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At length an opening in the trees allowed the sea-horizon to be seen.
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At length an opening in the trees allowed the sea-horizon to be seen.
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Looking in that direction over the gloomy-metalled porphyritic slopes upon which we stand, the glance extends to a manner of sea-horizon; while the several planes below it are dotted with hills and hill-ranges, white, red, and black, all dwarfed by distance to the size of thimbles and pincushions.
The Land of Midian 2003
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El – Zahd north and El – Shárr south, the curtain, rising from a sea-horizon, seems to divide itself.
The Land of Midian 2003
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In this direction the Zaire assumes the semblance of a mountain lake, whilst down stream the broad bosom of the Nshibúl branch forms almost a sea-horizon, with dots showing where tall, scattered palms spring from the watery surface.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003
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There, like a sea of quicksilver, lay far beneath us the grand expanse of water, a boundless sea-horizon on the south and south-west, glittering in the noonday sun, while at sixty miles 'distance, blue mountains rose from the lake to a height of about seven thousand feet above its level.
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A cheerful fire was burning in the stove, and we gathered about it: the wind blew a stronger gale each moment outside, barring out the far sea-horizon with a wall of gray mist.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876 Various
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In that position his visible world was limited to a stony slope, a few boulders, the bush against which he leaned and the vista of a piece of empty sea-horizon.
The Rover 1923
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But it was the glorious polished blue of the sea-horizon that bounded all his thoughts.
Where the Blue Begins Christopher Morley 1923
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