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

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

Loudon has had it in his head for some time;—ever since that colic of forty-eight hours, I should guess; upon the wrecks of which it might well rise as a new daystar.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 20 by Carlyle, Thomas

The Wise-         men were led to behold and to follow this daystar of vi:12 divine Science, lighting the way to eternal harmony.

From Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures by Eddy, Mary Baker