daystar

Example Sentences

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"A brighter day is dawning," cried the famed Horace Mann, "and education is its daystar."

From Time Magazine Archive

“The day is approaching,” He similarly has written, “when the faithful will behold the daystar of justice shining in its full splendor from the dayspring of glory.”

From The Advent of Divine Justice by Shoghi Effendi

And lo, wonder of metempsychosis, it is she, the everlasting bride, harbinger of the daystar, the bride, ever virgin.

From Ulysses by Joyce, James

To the east, and right amidships of the dawn, which was all pink, the daystar sparkled like a diamond. 

From Island Nights' Entertainments by Stevenson, Robert Louis

Instead of that the hope that Genevra might in some way be restored to me unspotted, had unconsciously been the daystar of my existence, and I shrank from a final separation.

From Family Pride Or, Purified by Suffering by Holmes, Mary Jane