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A few dark clouds floated motionless overhead, but outside their shadow the lake shone like glass, running back until it melted into faint reflections on the horizon.
On the next afternoon, as we moved along the bank of the river, we saw the white tops of wagons on the horizon.
She saw Haines peering under shaded eyes far down the track, and following the direction of his gaze she saw a tiny spot of haze on the horizon.
A little to the right of the direction in which they were flying a blue line was seen on the horizon.
His shadow expressed the same feeling as his pose, that of tranquil youth with its eyes on the horizon.
It is a country of large cities whose borders often almost touch, where some tall factory chimney is almost always on the horizon.
We were glad of her speed a day or so out, for there was smoke on the horizon that gave some anxious hours to our officers.
At last a sail was discovered on the horizon and the little settlement was thrown into a turmoil of excitement.
The framework represents the sky, which far off, on the horizon, reaches down to and touches the world.
The point on the horizon where the sun rises on June 21 is indicated by the small stone seen through the arches.
The smoke plume of Vesuvius was upright and slender, expanding upon the horizon like a pine tree of white vapor.
I only took one quick look at his face, but could have sworn that he was gazing at the blue fin of the range on the horizon of the bush.
The stars, thickly flung about, were flashing low and yellow as at midnight, but on the horizon the great change had begun.
The hills on the horizon stand out sharply, and seem to keep pace with us as the miles slip past.
He is now hurrying along in all the excitement of battle, and in face of the enemy, of whom a batch appear on the horizon in front of him, when the word is given to "fire."
I stepped silently in and sat down, and the metal man pushed off, and rowed without stopping for nine days, after which land appeared on the horizon.
There was a blue veil of haze on the horizon, and a ragged gray mist hung over the low places.
Hay contracts were let for sufficient forage to winter forty horses, the cattle located nicely within a month, and time rolled by without a cloud on the horizon of the new cattle company.
Halting my horse to rest, I reviewed the past, and the best reasoning at my command showed nothing encouraging on the horizon.
Philip looked out for the land but could not perceive it, for there was a haze on the horizon, so that he could not see more than five miles.
During the ride many a tree and bush rose on the horizon before us and sunk on that we left behind.
I perceived along their base a line of lofty trees, but it was most apparent on the horizon to the westward of the heights.
The storm has blown over, the sea of popular indignation has gone down, and at present no cloud is visible on the horizon.
There was a hard clear light to the north; and even over the Downs, low as they were upon the horizon, there was a sharp belt of blue.
The atmosphere grew oppressive and heavy, while the flames, swifter than the wind, appeared raging upon the horizon.
At that distance the long waves broke without a sound, and the few sails on the horizon looked like white flowers at sea.
Even as I put it from me, believing it would be lost in the flow of an absorbing conversation, I knew that there had appeared upon the horizon a cloud no bigger than a man's hand.
Henry was the first to awake, just when the dawn was turning from pink to red, and a single glance revealed to him an object on the horizon that had not been there the night before.
The captain pointed to a faint gleam of light on the horizon, which he knew well enough to be the moon; but he wished to change the subject.
It was just visible, dimly outlined on the horizon, as he had last beheld it in the cold gray beam that accompanied his departure.
"I'm afraid there's not much chance of strange roads for me," she said, looking out over the sea with beating heart to where a distant ribbon of smoke on the horizon showed a ship bound for far ports.
He settled himself easily into his seat, spoke a word to his staff, and then he rode with his regiments toward that great mass of men on the horizon who were steadily marching forward.
Several times at night they saw points of fire on the horizon, and they would pause to look at them.
It was extremely thick on the horizon, but clear overhead, with just enough wind and sea to prevent the little noise the engines and screws made being heard.
We can therefore imagine that the young captain waited impatiently for the first trace of smoke upon the horizon.
His foresight was soon rewarded, for in two hours a lofty barrier of ice casts its profile on the horizon.
The sun, rather low on the horizon, struck full on the houses of the town, bringing out their whiteness.
The harbor was clear of ice and nowhere on the horizon was the Maid of the North to be seen.
He looked away at the blue mountains on the horizon; then his gaze dropped to the chimney-top below the pasture.
We could watch the columns of smoke thrown up by the Boers' great gun, still fixed above that niche upon the horizon.
We ought all to work for it, but it is not here now, and there are no signs on the horizon of its approach.
It will cruise about, or be at anchor round the corner, for weeks and weeks, so that it can appear on the horizon at the moment of the first embrace.
A day or two ago, from the top of the Tartar Wall, where I was idly sitting, I saw a huge pillar of smoke roll up on the horizon ten or fifteen miles away, and gradually spread farther and farther.
The evening was magnificent and the sun still high on the horizon; as they knew they would not see another inn until the next stage was reached, they made a fourth stop there.
Nine days and nine nights did we sail, and on the tenth day our native land showed on the horizon.
My shirt, which was soaked with perspiration immediately, clung to my body, and on the horizon there was a slight, white vapor, which seemed to be palpable heat.
The only hints of the cloud on the horizon were the occasional passage of a convoy and the notable absence of young men.
The first faint streaks of day were beginning to show on the horizon when Bannister reached the grand stand.
Yet, for a man so self-contained, he had much to give to those about him, whether these were men already enjoying place and power or merely boys just on the horizon of a real man's life.
In the early summer of 1917 the possibility of an understanding seemed to show itself on the horizon, but it was wrecked by the previously mentioned events.
Under their wheels, with the fields gold with stubble, the sky a faint blue, with that thick look on the horizon.
It was like looking at a mountain, when one must fall back to the right angle of view, must gain the proper perspective, before one can judge of the space it fills on the horizon.
The young child, for instance, who lives on the shore of one of our great lakes, may learn through his knowledge of color to distinguish between the water and the sky on the horizon line.
That is because he does not look far enough ahead, and because he does not notice far out on the horizon the great waves which, sooner or later, must destroy his work and carry himself away.
The weather was of the clearest, and he fancied that he saw far off on the horizon the outline of an unknown land.
Far behind them was a low line of land, showing but dimly on the horizon, and before them was the world of waters.
And now he saw something like a little cloud on the horizon, and it rose higher and grew wider, and then its misty brown faded away, and he saw the beautiful green shores of Erin.
The dogs were lively and well-fed, trotting along with tails and ears erect; the weather was good, and the sun, now low on the horizon, cast long, fantastic shadows on the ice from every man and dog.
The other thing was that on the horizon where the wall at the further end of the field cut the sky there were piled, as though resting on the top of the wall, high white clouds.
These worship the sun, no matter from which point on the horizon it may dawn; and when the sun has left the winter sky to appear in the summer one, they know how to find it again.
When they left the hut after the gale, the noise on the horizon was steadily growing, and the tough ice moaned and buzzed all round them.
They were rested, they had eaten good food in plenty, and the fire was long since but a dim red blur on the horizon.
"Those ships certainly don't belong to our fleet," he repeated after another long look at the vessels slowly growing larger on the horizon.
The moon, low down upon the horizon, sent a broad beam of light into the entrance of the cave and over the head and shoulders of the Indian.
Still we waited, but nothing unusual happened; then in the middle of July the French were heavily attacked, and once more the clouds appeared on the horizon.
It was a lovely night; the stars were shining beautifully, and the constellation of Orion hung on the horizon in the eastern sky, with the pale moon above.
On the horizon to the south rise the mountains, Ben this and Ben that, real mountains of beautiful outline, though no higher than some three thousand feet.
And beneath it all, Eleanor knew quite well, was the nervous flutter of apprehension that seized the entire family whenever a threatening masculine presence loomed on the horizon.
Standing together in the bow, they looked at the smear upon the horizon, and their eyes filled with tears.
At the first glimmer in the east every eye was strained on the horizon, all eager, all anxious to be the first to sight anything within our vision.
Everything was dark, not a light showing aboard ship or elsewhere until, about midnight, I saw a glow on the horizon, nearly dead ahead.
It was good for me also, though difficult, to climb to the top of my mountain, which reached up out of the forest and from which I could look away to the range of red on the horizon.
The houses become smaller, the land narrows down to a strip on the horizon, and at last there is nothing to be seen but a dark cloud of smoke rising from the steamers and workshops.
The sun was low on the horizon, and there was a chill in the long shadows thrown across the forest floor.
We marched thirty-four miles, steering due west for a distant hill, which in the morning had been a faint blue streak upon the horizon.
The sun rose higher and higher, till the full force of his rays seemed more than they could bear, and yet the nearest shade was miles away, a line of trees or scrub dim on the horizon.
Jim on the horizon, and all that William could say was: "My word, how pulled down you look!"
He had just before sent them below to their dinners, when, as he was taking a look at the enemy, to see what she was about, he observed beyond her a dark blue line on the horizon.
The atmosphere grew oppressive and heavy, while the flames, swifter than the wind, appeared raging upon the horizon.
Philip looked out for the land, but could not perceive it, for there was a haze on the horizon, so that he could not see more than five miles.
At last, as the sun rose from the fog on the horizon, something attracted my eye, and I made it out to be the two masts of a vessel which had sunk in about six fathoms of water.
Presently I saw two or three of them break into a gallop, and observed a few moving spots of white on the horizon.
While speaking, the mate had been scanning the horizon with his glass, which he immediately handed to the captain, who rose at once and saw the line of the Short Blue like little dots on the horizon.
Clouds began to gather on the horizon, and a few light puffs of air swept over the sea, which enabled the strange vessel to bear down on her boat, and take the whale in tow.
The captain pointed to a faint gleam of light on the horizon, which he knew well enough to be the moon; but he wished to change the subject.
Wishing to keep their minds as long as possible ignorant of the outer world, he had told them that ships came out of a hole in the clouds on the horizon.
The whole party ran towards him, and soon became as wildly excited as himself, for there, at long last, was a ship, far away on the horizon!
The great red sun was down with half its disc slipped behind the violet bank upon the horizon.
What cloud, piled massive on the horizon, could cast an image, so sharp in outline, so full of vigorous detail of surface?
On the evening of the 7th of May there was immense satisfaction in the town, as a number of sail were seen on the horizon.
Being only boys, and with no particular cares weighing heavily on their minds, they refused to see any cloud on the horizon.
A strange sail was seen upon the horizon, bearing down upon the "Constitution" in a way that seemed to threaten hostilities.
Great bars of crimson, then of gold, and the shades in between, piled above one another on the horizon.
A mountain range, still capped with snow, lay perhaps a hundred miles to the northwest; in the distance it looked like a white, low-lying cloud on the horizon.
The land is very faint on the horizon and the breeze is just going down, such as it was; it's a momentary interest at the end of a somewhat dull, gray day to most passengers.
A great number of peaks, like pyramids, ending in a sharp point at a great elevation, showed themselves on the horizon.
The sun was a red ball on the horizon as he flung up the window and looked out over the roofs towards the sea.
On the horizon to their right, away beyond the spears of yellow maize, the sun was sinking, a ball of orange fire against the rose mist of the sky.
Life had paused in her, and she was glad to rest her eyes on the horizon line and take no thought about any morrow.
About the time that this occurred the sky began to clear towards the north-west and soon after a white line of foam was seen on the horizon right ahead.