visible horizon

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Origin of visible horizon

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First recorded in 1695–1705

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How to use visible horizon in a sentence

  • These representations of the earth's surface of ours had a round contour, resembling the circular outline of the visible horizon.

  • It is up above the earth and extends beyond and below the visible horizon and the limit of the earth.

    The Bontoc Igorot | Albert Ernest Jenks
  • 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 | Vicente Blasco Ibanez
  • There are few difficulties that hold out against real attacks; they fly, like the visible horizon, before those who advance.

  • At the spot where he and Esther had conferred, he reached the boundary of the visible horizon from the rock.

    The Prairie | J. Fenimore Cooper