Half the sky, from the zenith to the western sea-line, was an astonishing sheet of pure, pale, even gold. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The coast of the Argentine lies to the West, below the sea-line, and some time this morning we crossed the fiftieth parallel of south latitude. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The distant sea-line of the north horizon was defined in the calm atmosphere between the north and west points of the compass; but even this did not afford me any idea of the breadth of the lake …. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The fancied picture had grown almost real, when the tears filled his eyes, and, to hide his emotion, he turned his face towards the sea-line, opposite the hazy streak that meant land. ❋ Unknown (2007)
And there he was, going about in a row of square notches against the sea-line, with his coat off, and brandishing some tool, vehemently carrying on to spirits less active than his own. ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)
In the middle distance rose up the noble towers and battlements of the knightly town, with the deep sea-line behind them. ❋ Unknown (2004)
It shone steadfastly until the sea-line hid it, keeping faith with her sleep while I fled away. ❋ Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 (1958)
The blazing sun dropped behind the far-off sea-line, and a great band of saffron rimmed the whole horizon, fading into palest green as it spread upward, and this in turn melted into a blue which at the zenith looked unfathomable. ❋ David Christie Murray (N/A)
A white sail or two on the horizon was descried by Don John's look-out on the maintop; then sail after sail rose above the sea-line, and the enemy came into full view. ❋ Stanley Lane-Poole (N/A)
Yet he was prudent, conciliatory, and willing to wait; and as the English power in France -- that triangle of which the base was the sea-line from Harfleur to Calais, and the apex Paris -- was unnatural and far from being really strong; and as the relations between Bedford and ❋ Various (N/A)
The distant sea-line of the north horizon was defined in the calm atmosphere, but I could get no idea of the breadth of the lake, as an archipelago of islands, each consisting of a single hill rising to a height of two or three hundred feet above the water, intersected the line of vision to the left. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
The ripple beat gently on the sea-line of the boat, which oscillated with the regularity and softness of a cradle. ❋ Paul Adrien (N/A)
About twenty-two miles to the west, the sea-line is broken by an island, about which there is an indefinable air of romance. ❋ Rosalind Northcote (N/A)
As the ships of the vanguard began to clear the channel between Oxia Island and Cape Scropha, and the wide expanse of water at the entrance of the Gulf of Corinth opened before them, the look-outs reported several ships hull down on the horizon to the eastward, the sun shining on their white sails, that showed like flecks of cloud on the sea-line. ❋ John Richard Hale (N/A)
This wall is a continuation of the one visited in Peking, and formerly ended at the sea-line in Shanhaikwan, but the ravages of time and the devastation of man have carried away much of it. ❋ Ellen Mary Hayes Peck (N/A)
Rogers being called by Mr. Robbins, took a look around the sea-line, cast a shrewd look at the heavens, went and squinted at the glass, and then ordered the canvas reefed down and all hands to breakfast. ❋ W. Bertram Foster (N/A)
Mariana, a Roman colony, stood on the coast near the lower extremity of this present lagoon; and Aleria, another still further south, on the sea-line of the great plain extending for forty miles below Bastia. ❋ Thomas Forester (N/A)
Beyond the sea-line were palaces with terraced gardens, white palaces against which grass and trees showed glossy green; and there she wandered among the flowers, and waited. ❋ Sarah Grand (N/A)
Bittra Campion sat in the large drawing-room, with the high, broad windows, that looked over a dun, brown moorland, to where the sea-line threw its clear curve athwart the sky. ❋ P.A. Sheehan (N/A)
We heard the chimes of midnight before we stirred from our seat, and then we moved with some reluctance, for the moonlight was rare, and the light upon the water where the sea-line showed through the interstices of the trees was a silvery radiance too blessed to lose. ❋ Various (N/A)
