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  • Associated Press Members of a BP clean up strike team work to clean oil from the Deepwater H orizon oil rig off of a rock jetty in Gulfport, Miss., last week.

    BP Links Pay to Safety in Fourth Quarter Guy Chazan 2010

  • They told the mess-men to navigate towards the extreme an 'remote' orizon, an 'they abrogated the sentry about fifteen paces out of earshot.

    Traffics and Discoveries Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • Ha! List to the blighter on the 'orizon sayin' his prayers, Navy-fashion.

    Traffics and Discoveries Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • Horizon c. 1374, from O.Fr. orizon (14c.), earlier orizonte (13c.), from L. horizontem (nom. horizon), from Gk. horizon kyklos "bounding circle," from horizein "bound, limit, divide, separate," from horos "boundary."

    Pharyngula 2009

  • TheWhite when they "be - orizon, glittering They seemed to th America, east dn scènes and places IBwn Lake Champlain Fcharming," leaving its Ftravelers.

    De la philosophie de la nature 1770

  • “Le voila”, said he, “Regardez, mes amis, isn’t zat a bacon tree on ze ‘orizon”?

    with softener no softener - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • Then one thing leadin 'up to another, an' our orders, except about anchorin 'where he's booked for, leavin' us a clear 'orizon, Number Two Six Seven is now -- mind the edge of the wharf -- here! "

    Traffics and Discoveries Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • Likewise I've a sort of a notion that if you stays aloft for a matter o 'ten minutes or so you'll find that there's three on 'em, instead o' two; at all events just as I was layin '' im off the yard I thought I catched a glimpse of somethin 'showin' now and again that looked like the canvas of another craft just liftin 'over the' orizon. "

    A Middy of the King A Romance of the Old British Navy Harry Collingwood 1886

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