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

So sinks the daystar in the ocean bed.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah

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

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