| 单词 | visible horizon |
| 例句 | There is no such grove, I know now, but the morning of my return to Devon I imagined that it might be just over the visible horizon, or the horizon after that. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z A track called “Why She Loves” opens with a saxophone prologue in free tempo, slips into a melody played as if on tiptoe and opens up to a trumpet solo with no visible horizon. Review: The Trumpeter Adam O’Farrill Shines in ‘Stranger Days’ 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z “Back then there was a distinct, visible horizon of disbelief that the world could actually change,” said Mr. Forrest, who is also one of the richest people in the world. Inside the Global Race to Turn Water Into Fuel 2023-03-11T05:00:00Z “So it’s a very visible horizon of a day.” Venice Biennale to include exhibition of wartime Ukrainian art 2022-04-16T04:00:00Z She said they climbed and turned right “into a dark area with no visible horizon.” Report: Willow crash occurred on pilot’s first night flight 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z The light scattering in the atmosphere above your location will change, as will reflected and scattered surface light from further than your visible horizon. Eclipse: It's All about the Umbra 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z Techno-optimists argue that it's shortsighted to bet against innovations that haven't yet played out or that may lie somewhere beyond the visible horizon. Will new technology translate into real-world gains? 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z “In a storm, there’s really no visible horizon, so you are really off instruments anyway,” said van der Linden. 5 Missing Flights That Eerily Echo MH370 2014-09-27T04:00:00Z “The lack of a visible horizon made it more difficult for the Mishap Pilot to recognize the Mishap Aircraft’s attitude and the loss of airspeed.” The Inside Story of a Deadly Air Force Crash 2013-10-30T11:05:27Z The University, that little world of itself ... bounding the visible horizon of the student like the walls of a monastery, still leaves within him scope enough for all the sympathies and the passions of manhood.... William Hickling Prescott 2012-03-11T03:00:12.297Z A ball of fire was glancing athwart the heavens, and seemed to fall into the sea, at the distance of a few leagues, or at the limits of the visible horizon. Mercedes of Castile The Voyage to Cathay 2011-06-14T02:00:24.670Z Dip, of the horizon, the angle of depression of the visible horizon at sea below the true horizontal direction, due to the height of the eye above the level of the sea. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde 2011-04-14T02:00:57.977Z The sun was shining from a clear, balmy sky, for summer had come, when Deerfoot swept every portion of the visible horizon with the spyglass without detecting a sign of red men. Deerfoot in The Mountains Of course, the 'forty-one degrees and thirteen minutes' could allude to nothing but elevation above the visible horizon, since the horizontal direction was clearly indicated by the words, 'north-east and by north.' The Short-story No one, however, could guess his thoughts as he stood there upon the quarter-deck, clad in oil-skins, drenched with spray, glancing now at the compass, now at the sails, or at the scarce visible horizon. The Coxswain's Bride also, Jack Frost and Sons; and, A Double Rescue Where these waters lay like a sheet of glass, spreading out to the scarce visible horizon, the grass-waves of the prairie had rolled in days gone by. The Red Man's Revenge A Tale of The Red River Flood We must, they think, have avowedly a heavenly background to the world, but our gaze should be restricted habitually within the visible horizon. Prose Masterpieces from Modern Essayists There are few difficulties that hold out against real attacks; they fly, like the visible horizon, before those who advance. Many Thoughts of Many Minds A Treasury of Quotations from the Literature of Every Land and Every Age These representations of the earth's surface of ours had a round contour, resembling the circular outline of the visible horizon. Autobiography of Friedrich Froebel translated and annotated by Emilie Michaelis ... and H. Keatley Moore. It was that wonderful moment when, for lack of a visible horizon, the not yet darkened world seems infinitely greater—a moment when anything can happen, anything be believed in. Famous Modern Ghost Stories Death is but our visible horizon, and our look ought always to be focussed beyond it. Hope of the Gospel "We Europeans," writes Sir Alfred Lyall regarding Hinduism, "can scarcely comprehend an ancient religion, still alive and powerful, which is a mere troubled sea without shore or visible horizon." New Ideas in India During the Nineteenth Century A Study of Social, Political, and Religious Developments When I had looked around on the great circle bounded by the visible horizon, and could perceive no friendly port in which I might lay my shattered vessel, behold it was close at hand! Frank Mildmay Or, The Naval Officer Of course the 'twenty-one degrees and thirteen minutes' could allude to nothing but elevation above the visible horizon, since the horizontal direction was clearly indicated by the words 'northeast and by north.' Short-Stories One vast and apparently unbroken plain extends to the utmost limits of the visible horizon. A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 4, part 2: John Tyler In such a state of the weather, the eye, more especially of one placed on an elevation, is unable to distinguish what is termed the visible horizon at sea. The Water-Witch or, the Skimmer of the Seas One word he said that dwells with me, that "Faith overleaps all visible horizons." The Silent Isle "Great Scott! what is that?" cried a surveyor's chainman, shading his eyes and gazing at the fading line of agriculturist which bisected his visible horizon. The Devil's Dictionary When his knowledge of the world was bounded by the visible horizon on Col. My Bondage and My Freedom Nothing could be made out, the darkness having settled upon the water in a way to circumscribe the visible horizon to very narrow limits. Homeward Bound or, the Chase They are true patriots, and the visible horizon bounds their wishes. Life in Mexico From thence," says Mr. Maundrell, "we descry Tadmor, enclosed on three sides, by long ridges of mountains; but to the south is a vast plain which bounds the visible horizon. Palestine or the Holy Land From the Earliest Period to the Present Time Billy fell upon the bed, and rolling himself in the bedclothes, vowed never to rise again till she was out of the visible horizon. Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 1 There was no visible horizon to her wealth. We Can't Have Everything They had not appeared within the visible horizon of Burnham-on-Crouch, though they had had ample time in which to arrive. The Lost Naval Papers At the spot where he and Esther had conferred, he reached the boundary of the visible horizon from the rock. The Prairie But as the intellectual world is still unknown to us, our thoughts are bounded by the visible horizon, and our understanding only develops within the limits of our vision. Emile Of course, the 'twenty-one degrees and thirteen minutes' could allude to nothing but elevation above the visible horizon, since the horizontal direction was clearly indicated by the words, 'north- east and by north.' Short Stories for English Courses Our visible horizon, in every direction, being merely studded with shrubs and low bushes, gave the scene a singular marine appearance. Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales In using the sextant, the angle between the heavenly body and the visible horizon is measured directly. South: the story of Shackleton's 1914-1917 expedition It appeared to fill each cranny of the air, as the visible horizon is often charged to fulness by one dazzling flash of the electric fluid. The Prairie It was apparently unaltered in a single feature: herbless and treeless, it occupied more than one half of the visible horizon, that is to say, from 10 degrees east of north, westward round to south. Expedition into Central Australia Dark and heavy it lay along more than half the visible horizon, while its crown invaded the zenith. After the Storm It is up above the earth and extends beyond and below the visible horizon and the limit of the earth. The Bontoc Igorot His visible horizon extends no farther than the tops of the trees which bound his plantation—perhaps five hundred yards. The Paths of Inland Commerce; a chronicle of trail, road, and waterway The dust cloud which indicated the coach—probably owing to these same irregularities—had long since been lost on the visible horizon. Trent's Trust, and Other Stories Not one of them could say with certainty what lay beyond the visible horizon, nor whither the ship was drifting. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse The circular visible horizon and its dip at sea, the gradual appearance and disappearance of ships in the offing, cannot fail to incline intelligent sailors to a belief in the globular figure of the earth. History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science |
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