In November 2005, billboards and unipolls all over Beirut were displaying a lady's hand upon a cloudy horizon.

By the time the sun was sniffing its nose at the cloudy horizon, the station was humming with activity.

Dawn had just shouldered through a cloudy horizon.

A seascape broke the shadows of a cloudy but brilliantly bright horizon.

Adding to the dreamlike vagueness of the moment was the now nebulous sunset along the cloudy horizon and the summit of Point Loma.

Ned raved, and tried to pierce the cloudy horizon.

Stragen asked as they were saddling their horses in the courtyard while the emerging dawn laid a dirty stain across the cloudy eastern horizon.

The vast lake, really an inland sea, stretched out to a cloudy horizon.

The rain had now nearly ceased; a cloudy, greyish horizon became visible, and the dim light spreading from a watery sky made objects dimly discernible out of doors.

Although Wednesday's figures contained some bright spots - industry grew by 2.7 percent quarter-on-quarter - they looked more like the silver lining of what is still a cloudy economic horizon.