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Definition of Horizonless
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Horizonless
Literary usage of Horizonless
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Urban Condition: Space, Community, and Self in the Contemporary Metropolis by Ghent Urban Studies Team (1999)
"Within this horizonless grid system, there is a hierarchy between up and down,
far and near, which is indicated by the geometrical volumes that represent ..."
2. The Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.] by Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner (1889)
"... for now-a-days whenever she pulled out from the station and got her train
fairly started on one of those horizonless transcontinental sentences of hers, ..."
3. Viagens ethnographicas sul americanas: Argentina by Charmian London, Online Archive of California, Simoens da Silva (1921)
"The worst had befallen; the future was plain, a horizonless expanse of ready work
in which one must in good time build out of the wreck a renewed, ..."
4. The American Political Science Review (1918)
"We have heard so much of the inert, homogeneous people spread over vast horizonless
plains that the dismemberment of Russia after the revolution has ..."
5. The Bookman (1907)
"... Roberts to crystallise into a series of brief and vibrant character- studies
the really salient features of the horizonless life of the outer worlds. ..."
6. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1888)
"They are shut in, and horizonless as their native haunts, and too timid and
suspicious to court or care for intercourse with others. ..."
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