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Skyline   /skˈaɪlˌaɪn/   Listen
Skyline

noun
1.
The outline of objects seen against the sky.
2.
The line at which the sky and Earth appear to meet.  Synonyms: apparent horizon, horizon, sensible horizon, visible horizon.





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"Skyline" Quotes from Famous Books



... was! She compared it to similar valleys in Switzerland, in Norway, in Japan, and her own shone out pre-eminent with a thousand beauties of bold skyline, of harmoniously "composed" distances, of exquisitely fairy-like detail of foreground. But oh! the wooden packing-boxes of houses and ...
— Hillsboro People • Dorothy Canfield
... back of Hoar Head. It must have been near three when I reached a great grass-grown mound called Culliford Tree, that marks the resting-place of some old warrior of the past. The top is planted with a clump of trees that cut the skyline, and there I sat awhile to rest. But not for long, for looking back towards Purbeck, I could see the faint hint of dawn low on the sea-line behind St. Alban's Head, and so pressed forward knowing I had a full ten miles to ...
— Moonfleet • J. Meade Falkner
... called down that he had sighted a sail. This did bring them from the cabin, and they crowded the poop rail and weather mizzen shrouds as they watched the strange ship. But its course did not lie near, and when it disappeared below the skyline, they returned shivering to the cabin, not one offering to relieve the ...
— When God Laughs and Other Stories • Jack London
... when she got back to Mabel's apartment her mood was reckless. She went to the window and stood looking at the crooked and chimney-potted skyline that ...
— Love Stories • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... march, was the mountain chain—not a high range, but an elevation which showed a broken skyline. The mountains below the South River did not now seem so formidable; and directly to the south they could see no ranges or hill elevations. To the north the sea might be ten or fifty miles away. The river flowed past them at the rate of about two ...
— The Wonder Island Boys: Exploring the Island • Roger Thompson Finlay


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