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

Such is the daystar of the word of truth and faithfulness, that hath dawned above the horizon of the pen of the Lord of all names.

From The Hidden Words of Bahá'u'lláh by Bahá'u'lláh

Did they not, by God’s grace, shine out like the daystar from the horizons of Divine knowledge?

From The Secret of Divine Civilization by `Abdu'l-Bahá

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

When the owls cry and the crickets chirp, my wife leaves my bed, and until the daystar appears, I lie alone, torn with curiosity, to know where she is, and what she is doing.

From Welsh Fairy Tales by Griffis, William Elliot