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Definition of on the horizon:

  • (figuratively) imminent

Sentence Examples:

There was no path, and as far as I could see, no landmarks sufficient to guide us; but Raymond seemed to have an instinctive perception of the point on the horizon toward which we ought to direct our course.

There was not a man who did not realize that a great European War loomed on the horizon.

On the horizon there could be seen nothing but the beginning of a species of vast night.

It means the germination of the crisis, the appearance on the horizon of the cloud no bigger than a man's hand.

No, for it has kindled another soul, and a new star has risen on the horizon.

They had travelled a day and a night without water, and both men and horses were almost choking, so that when they saw the trees on the horizon which indicated the presence of a stream, they pushed forward with almost frantic haste.

From the eastern and western extremities of the plain we could see the artillery fire, but owing to the smoke hanging over the crest of the hill on the horizon, it was impossible to get an idea of the positions of the armies.

He pointed out the spots of interest, the villages, the watercourses, the mountains on the horizon.

There is not a sail, not a speck on the horizon either east, west, north or south.

On the horizon to the west the position lights of the warship show in a luminous line.

Leonora would never know he had been near her in the silent orchard bathed in moonlight, taking leave of her with the unspoken anguish of an eternal farewell, as to a dream vanishing on the horizon of life!

One morning up aloft he called something to the captain, pointing out a speck on the horizon.

They sailed one bright morning, and under a spanking breeze the big island was presently low down on the horizon.

And there it gleamed afar, distinguishable on the horizon as a dark band.

"There," replied Hercules, showing an almost imperceptible point on the horizon in the northeast.

Presently the Caskets showed as a harmless encumbrance on the horizon.

The fifth day broke with an angry sun and no sign on the horizon to relieve the eternal monotony.

The second one, directing his gaze to a dark blue pane and, looking through the center, remarked to his companion, I see no sunshine, the day is dreary, and the clouds cast gloomy shadows upon the horizon.

There, sure enough, was a dark smudge of smoke on the horizon.

Now and then a distant sail glimmered upon the horizon, but disappeared like a vanishing snowflake.

While thus gloomily brooding over our plight, smoke was sighted on the horizon; we ascended the hill to watch it.

They represented rich people on the horizon whom Diana selfishly wished to keep to herself.

The smudge on the horizon had long since disappeared, but directly ahead could be seen the faint outlines of a steamer.

It kept growing darker and darker, until there was only a narrow streak of red light on the horizon at the verge of the battlefield; the shadows of the dead horses seemed to be projected across the plain to an infinite distance.

Suddenly the blows ceased to shower on me, and I heard a cry from the lips of the old priest, and, turning about, I saw that the eyes of all the assembled multitude were fixed on a point on the horizon.

This man might contend with savages, and hear, as they do, the tread of enemies in distant forests; he could follow a scent in the air, a trail on the ground, or see on the horizon the signal of a friend.

He suffered himself, even, to think of that faint blur upon the horizon, the breath of the spicy winds, the strange home perfumes of the bay, as he drew nearer and nearer to the outstretched arms of his country.

The kine of Dawn are the bright clouds that, like red cattle, wander in droves upon the horizon.

The three make a semicircular crescent, like a great floating moon, on the horizon.

The heavy clouds had grown heavier, and now and then low thunder muttered on the horizon.

The sun had not yet arisen, though there was a streak of light, forerunner of his advent, on the horizon.

The cloud that had lowered on the horizon suddenly darkened around.

Beyond and beyond lay the ocean, unruffled, melting into the white haze which united it with the sky on the horizon.

The whole cone gradually sank and died away in the brownish red flush on the horizon, more than an hour after sunset.

The dark speck showed on the horizon and grew fast, coming apparently straight in their direction.

Usually in this region antelope were to be seen on the horizon, but they were all gone now.

Two or three hours later he saw two horsemen on the horizon, and he rode toward them.

The sky overhead was cloudless, while the murky belt on the horizon was not visible from the cottage door.

She echoed, with her eyes on the horizon beyond the dunes.

It gleams on the horizon distant and unapproachable, and the icy sea above which it shines is not to be broken through.

The Indian girl drove reluctantly away; presently her canvas wagon was but a dim gray silhouette upon the horizon.

About half-past five the first tints on the horizon showed the upper line of coast more distinctly.

"It's curious that your marriage with Nan still seems to hang on the horizon, Roger," she had remarked reflectively.

Afterwards, came a dot on the horizon and the sound of a shrill scream, and it was as though a shuttle shot all across the sea in one breath, and a second head and neck tore through the levels, driving a whispering wall of water to right and left.

She was then seen to be overhauling a ship on the horizon.

Don't you see the specks of blue low down on the horizon to the northeast?

A speck on the horizon will turn out ship or land.

She followed the direction of his glance, and saw a purplish haze hanging heavily on the horizon.

Far on the horizon could be seen the destroyer and the cruiser sweeping in gigantic circles.

As there was no immediate suitor on the horizon, what more was there to be said of the daughter of the house?

Nothing broke the vista except the white sails of two sloops, evidently fishing boats, far off on the horizon.

He wanted her to hear what a man was telling about the headlands that were beginning to take form on the horizon.

And as they fled, there arose from the empty sea and sky a strange hissing sound, which gradually grew so intense that it became almost a roar; and, as the noise increased, the white line on the horizon widened and widened.

The sun hung on the horizon, right at eye level, for an eternity, slicing up their eyeballs and into their brains.

Vaguely but surely he began to see looming before him, like a fleecy tinted cloud on the horizon, his future fortune.

Wreaths of smoke curling upwards on the horizon showed that huts and hamlets were still burning.

Said Allan, rising composedly on the horizon of his own accumulated litter.

Between two worlds life hovers, like a star' Twixt night and morn upon the horizon's verge.

On the horizon the fires of the revolt of all oppressed peoples are already glowing and taking definite shape.

Now he mounted to the cupola and looked seaward, straining his eyes to discover if there were a sail upon the horizon.

The dark buildings looked as much a natural growth of the moor as those ruined temples on the horizon, which were tors.

As we recede from them, they sink back, flat and inanimate on the horizon.

And meanwhile those French sails on the horizon were growing less and less.

It slumbers on the horizon like a deserted city shrouded in mist.

In a few minutes she was a speck on the horizon.

On the horizon a score of windmills waved their arms like beckoning ghosts.

When we say that parallels are drawn to the same point on the horizon it does not imply that they meet at that point, which would be a contradiction; perspective parallels never reach that point, although they appear to do so.

I watched and waited, till I saw the melancholy procession fade away, and until he became a speck on the horizon.

And so when the opera was written he pounced upon it, thinking possibly a new star had appeared on the horizon.

He walked from dawn to eve, indifferent to fatigue, hunger, and thirst; the sun was already low on the horizon when he saw the dreadful river, the blood-red waters of which rolled between the rocks of gold and fire.

Fortunately his temper had come to him from his mother, who, when not frightened, and when there was nothing on the horizon which might cross the slightest whim of her husband, was an amiable, good-natured woman.

There is a puff of smoke upon the horizon, and the whistle of a locomotive strikes upon the ear.

I can indistinctly make out something away there on the horizon, just ahead, which I feel certain must be the ruins.

At this time there was not a single cloud on the horizon anywhere, the sky being absolutely clear and beautifully blue; but I noticed something like a white wall of water on our port bow advancing towards the Josephine.

It was now late in the afternoon of this, our sixty-third day out of port; and, as the sun sank to rest in the west, away in the east, according to our position in the boat, there was another illumination on the horizon.

There was never the vestige of a vessel on the horizon.

There was a long silence then, while the Boy looked thoughtfully off at the mountains, and when he spoke again it was to call attention to the beauty of a silver cloud that floated lazily on the horizon.

On the horizon is gathering the dark cloud that will dim the sunlight of their bliss, and cause them, in the dark and trying hour of trouble, to look back with the sigh of regret over the brilliant hours of youthful enjoyment.

The time when systematic instruction in military exercises and in the use of arms shall form part of every youth's education has not yet arrived, but the necessity for some such step looms already on the horizon.

On the horizon ran a blue line of downs, pure and fine above the fretted gold of the forest.

Between two worlds life hovers like a star, 'Twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge.

He had not gone far when a dark speck became visible on the horizon directly in front.

Slowly the mountain-top sank on the horizon until it became a mere speck.

Poor thing, her sad eyes had wandered from the approaching boat and were resting wistfully on the horizon beyond.

Lawrence, the south shore of which is indistinctly seen on the horizon.

Miles disappeared under his flying feet, while Kid's keen eyes were fastened on the horizon ahead.

The tiny speck on the horizon had been a sail, sure enough.

All the plain and the low hills formed one waving sheet of corn, without divisions or trees; and often, as we had no tracks for guidance, we had to take sight of some object on the horizon, and work straight forward towards it.

Mars, a dull rusty point of light low on the horizon, seemed to beckon.

He accepted the presence of the inquisitive schooners on the horizon as a compliment to his powers.

At its foot rises a small river, bubbling up from half a dozen springs in a slight depression, and flowing swiftly off, very clear and cool, towards the great lake which is visible on the horizon from the mountain behind.

I consider the continual appearance of new quacks on the horizon a sure proof of the low state of our medical knowledge.

Another hour, and the island was a mere speck on the horizon.

At this point, their minds being set free from the consideration of past history, they made the discovery that the buffalo runners were nowhere to be seen on the horizon, and that they themselves were lost on the grassy sea.

To tell the truth, his mind was agitated, his heart was full; hope once more peeped upon the horizon of his being.

Earliest morning shimmered lances of gray, ghostly light on the horizon, and across the sea to the waiting shore.

For there was a cloud upon the horizon which at first was no bigger than a man's hand, but it grew until it filled the land with darkness, and the fair prospect on which I had so loved to gaze was hidden behind the storm.

She pointed to a low brownish gray line far down on the horizon.

Far away on the horizon, May could see a revolving light, coming and going, coming and going.

Hazy clouds hovered on the horizon between the outlines of the hills; others, rent asunder, floated up and disappeared.