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In literature, "skyline" is often used to bridge the natural and the manmade, setting a vivid stage for action and reflection. Writers employ the term to mark a boundary where earth meets sky—a dramatic threshold that can evoke both serenity and tension. For instance, a family might retreat toward the eastern skyline in haste [1], while elsewhere a bomb is dramatically silhouetted against an urban outline [2]. In many works, the skyline frames not only the physical landscape with elements like wind-battered trees and distant mountains [3] but also the narrative itself, serving as a backdrop for human endeavor and natural mystery. This multifaceted use underlines the skyline’s role as both a literal horizon and a metaphorical demarcation in the storyteller’s world.
  1. The Happy Family, having no other recourse, therefore retreated in haste toward the eastern skyline.
    — from The Flying U Ranch by B. M. Bower
  2. A huge curiously shaped bomb on its skyline has a silhouette that looks much like a sitting duck.
    — from Hawaii National Park: A Guide for the Haleakala Section, Island of Maui, Hawaii by George Cornelius Ruhle
  3. High up on the skyline, a few wind-battered oaks bristled on the ridges; and beyond there lay nothing but the unknown, laden with mystery.
    — from The Life of the Fly; With Which are Interspersed Some Chapters of Autobiography by Jean-Henri Fabre

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