sky-line

• “To the sky-line of the four quarters -- spruce-shrouded islands, dark waters, and ice - scarred rocky ridges -- stretched the immaculate wilderness.”

  THE GREAT INTERROGATION

• “Often he went out of the quiet store, bare-headed and frantic, and shook his fist at the blink of day that came over the southern sky-line.”

  THE STORY OF JEES UCK

• “Then the two craft proceeded in company till the sun showed over the eastern sky-line.”

  White and Yellow

• “Then he surveyed the heavens and ran his eye along the white sky-line to the south.”

  A DAY'S LODGING

• “And it would stay longer every visit, and a time would come when it would ride their heaven day and night, never once dropping below the sky-line.”

  In a Far Country

• “Then she was aware of a blinding flash, and a snap, as though something gave way; and the woman before the cabin vanished, and the cabin and the tall spruce timber, and the jagged sky-line, and Li Wan saw another woman, in the shine of another sun, brushing great masses of black hair, and singing as she brushed.”

  LI-WAN, THE FAIR

• “Seventeen times she had seen the sun travel south and lose itself beyond the sky-line, and seventeen times she had seen it travel back again and ride the sky day and night till there was no night at all.”

  THE MARRIAGE TO LIT-LIT

• “And she was glad of it, as she lay there, slipping back to the old days, when the universe began and ended at the sky-line, and when she journeyed over the Pass to behold the Abyss.”

  CHAPTER 2

• “At every dip, like great billows heaving along the sky-line, the glacier-fretted mountains rose and fell.”

  CHAPTER I

• “The man watched him go, limping grotesquely and lurching forward with stammering gait up the slow slope toward the soft sky-line of the low-lying hill.”

  LOVE OF LIFE

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