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

Thou art the daystar of the heavens of My holiness, let not the defilement of the world eclipse thy splendor.

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

A star, a daystar, a firedrake, rose at his birth.

From Ulysses by Joyce, James

This is the daystar of wisdom and of divine mystery that hath shone above the horizon of the divine will.

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

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