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Definition
viewor more rarely:
a view of a possible future
- But for the south porch, the Maycomb County courthouse was early Victorian, presenting an unoffensive vista when seen from the north.Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird
vista = view
- I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance I have come.Nelson Mandela -- Long Walk to Freedom
- Unlike the one in the foyer, it was hardly professional, with no dramatic vista behind us.Sarah Dessen -- Just Listen
- In one moment, Sarayu's words opened up a new vista into Kate's struggle.William P. Young -- The Shack
- And now a new vista of peril opened before her.Edith Wharton -- The House of Mirth
- Full souls are double mirrors, making still An endless vista of fair things before, Repeating things behind.George Eliot -- Middlemarch
- It was the most forbidding vista Eragon had clapped eyes upon.Christopher Paolini -- Eldest
- It has a screen with a programmable vista: You can jog through the woods, or run the New York Marathon.Neal Shusterman -- Unwind
- Then he came to a place where the timbered slope fell away steeply and a wide vista opened to the north and the west.Hal Borland -- When the Legends Die
- At Buona Vista, Wimbledon.Agatha Christie -- Early Cases Of Hercule Poirot
- I held her and looked across the long vista of the room to where Claudia stood, with that strange coffin, watching me.Anne Rice -- Interview with the Vampire
- The vista coming over the mountains was quite stunning.Rick Riordan -- The Red Pyramid
- The vista into depth closes over.Joseph Campbell -- The Hero With a Thousand Faces
- And then down the vista of the counters came a bawling of 'Here he is!'H.G. Wells -- The Invisible Man
- Piper tried to remember the vista in her dreams.Rick Riordan -- The Lost Hero
- As we passed Dundas Island, though, the vista suddenly widened.Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild
- Summer had come and the advanced grade and the glowing, incalculable and unlimned vista of the school vacation-that had remained unlimned.Henry Roth -- Call It Sleep
- Some way down the central vista was a little table of white metal, laid with what seemed a meal.H.G. Wells -- The Time Machine
- Far, far down a vista of intolerable light, a tiny daub of black cotton, Twosie had stationed herself at the edge of things, and slept and fished.Eudora Welty -- The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
- On this strange sort of school-but-not-school day, and with the snowy vista outside, Emily Sue's kitchen seemed twice as welcome, and warm, and fun.Homer Hickam -- October Sky
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