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skyline

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skyline
the line at which the earth and sky appear to meet; horizon


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And then came the city of Oakland, and on the shelves of that free library I discovered all the great world beyond the skyline.
For three days we steamed north-westwards up a stream which even here, a thousand miles from its mouth, was still so enormous that from its center the two banks were mere shadows upon the distant skyline.
All the officers and men of Denisov's squadron, though they tried to talk of other things and to look in other directions, thought only of what was there on the hilltop, and kept constantly looking at the patches appearing on the skyline, which they knew to be the enemy's troops.
 
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