His eye swept the horizon eagerly until it rested on the cloud of volcanic smoke billowing up across the setting sun.

Jack scanned the eastern horizon with his glass.

From the crest of an incline the horsemen looked down over a vast rolling tableland, and far ahead of them a great white streak bounded the horizon.

So great was it, that its lower edge seemed almost to touch the far horizon.

To him the least thing is a new discovery, but it must not come dead into the little world, nor lie dead therein, lest it obscure the small horizon and crush the little world.

They are called upon now to widen their horizon, and to apply the democratic conception of education to the new problems which have arisen owing to the part which Great Britain is now playing in the affairs of Europe.

And, now, search the vast horizon.

I sought the long clear twilights of the North, When, from its nest of trees, my father's house Sees the Aurora deepen into dawn Far northward in the East, o'er the hill-top; And fronts the splendours of the northern West, Where sunset dies into that ghostly gleam That round the horizon creepeth all the night Back to the jubilance of gracious morn.

The assassination of Caesar in 44 B.C., followed by the battle of Philippi in 42, changed the political horizon of Palestine.

Like all selfish souls his own pain completely filled his horizon.

The sun had reached the horizon, and inside of a few minutes must vanish from view.

Six P.M.The sun has just set among a crowd of mountains which bound the horizon ahead of us, and in such a blaze of fiery light that earth and sky in his neighbourhood have been all too glorious to look upon.

It is in remembering what books greatly moved us in earlier days; what books wakened strong and healthy desires, enlarged the horizon of our understanding, and inspired us to generous action, that we get some clue to the books with which to surround our children; and a reminiscence of this kind becomes a sort of psychological observation.

The first shade of evening had found the moon high in the heavens, and it was now rapidly sinking toward the line of trees which marked the horizon.

I had frequently heard and read of those vast flocks of wild pigeons which periodically pursue their flight to milder latitudes: and, as the boat was now approaching the centre of the state of Ohio, where myriads of these birds were seen the year before, I anxiously watched the horizon for their appearance.

They would have been out of place in the bleak autumn blasts, and wan, colorless seasons of Acredale, where the sun, bleary and dim, furtively skirted the low horizon from November until April, as if ashamed to be identified with the glorious courser that rode the radiant summer sky.

Johnson wrote to Mrs. Thrale:'We saw the isle of Skie before us, darkening the horizon with its rocky coast.

The Crusades had created a new field of enterprise, and had opened to the eye of Europe a wider horizon of knowledge.

They asked the jhee to obtain leave for them to go and hurry the others up and refresh themselves at the same time, so that the journey might soon be resumed as the evening sun was nearing the horizon, and if they delayed further night would overtake them.

Discretion has large and extended Views, and, like a well-formed Eye, commands a whole Horizon:

But I feel that this prejudice against my race compresses my soul, narrows my political horizon and makes me feel that I am an alien in the land of my birth.

If sectarian scientists shut out the horizon to keep strictly to the phenomenon, it was permitted to her, a good, simple creature, to reserve the part that she did not know, that she would never know.

Jack, again surveying the horizon with his night glass, gave an exclamation.

The road to that ancient town goes straight up the hill past Swart Houe Cross, which forms the horizon in the picture reproduced as the frontispiece of this volume.

" For dense clouds had swiftly come up from the west, covering the horizon.