sea-line

Half the sky, from the zenith to the western sea-line, was an astonishing sheet of pure, pale, even gold.

CHAPTER XXV 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.

CHAPTER XXXI 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 ….

Lake Victoria 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.

A Woman of Thirty 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.

Erema 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.

Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo 2004

It shone steadfastly until the sea-line hid it, keeping faith with her sleep while I fled away.

The King Must Die Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 1958

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.

Travels in the Far East Ellen Mary Hayes Peck

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.

The Story of the Barbary Corsairs Stanley Lane-Poole

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.

A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole