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Above, the sky would be of a cold blue colour, save for a fringe of flame-coloured streaks on the horizon that kept turning ever paler and paler; and when the moon had come out there would be wafted through the limpid air the sounds of a frightened bird fluttering, of a bulrush rubbing against its fellows in the gentle breeze, and of a fish rising with a splash. Poor Folk by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor View in context When I was in Spaceland I heard that your sailors have very similar experiences while they traverse your seas and discern some distant island or coast lying on the horizon. Flatland by Abbott, Edwin View in context When the head of it had reached the base of the mountains, the rear was not yet visible on the horizon. A Study In Scarlet by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context More results

? References in classic literature

Above, the sky would be of a cold blue colour, save for a fringe of flame-coloured streaks on the horizon that kept turning ever paler and paler; and when the moon had come out there would be wafted through the limpid air the sounds of a frightened bird fluttering, of a bulrush rubbing against its fellows in the gentle breeze, and of a fish rising with a splash.

Poor Folk by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor View in context

When I was in Spaceland I heard that your sailors have very similar experiences while they traverse your seas and discern some distant island or coast lying on the horizon.

Flatland by Abbott, Edwin View in context

When the head of it had reached the base of the mountains, the rear was not yet visible on the horizon.

A Study In Scarlet by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context

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