sensible horizon
Example Sentences
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“We’re giving people a terrible deal over any sensible horizon,” he told me.
From New York Times
Almost as soon as he was in possession of his purchased religion, he saw, at a great distance, a fire raging, which soon increased, so that it seemed to compass the whole sensible horizon.
From Project Gutenberg
The sensible horizon is that portion of the surface of the earth, to which our vision extends.
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When viewed through a telescope the sensible horizon of the lake presented a billowy tumultuous appearance, fragments being incessantly detached from it and suspended in the air.
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This is designated as the sensible horizon; the rational, or true one, being a great circle of the heavens, parallel to the sensible horizon, but passing through the centre of the earth.
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