pharos
Example Sentences
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Like sister sails that drift at night Together on the deep, Seen only where they cross the light That pathless waves must pathlike keep From fisher's signal fire, or pharos steep.
From Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations by Various
There was a remarkable pharos built at Ostia by the Emperor Claudius, which was erected on an artificial breakwater.
From Grace Darling Heroine of the Farne Islands by Eva Hope
Rebellion raged within: Then SHERIDAN! dilating to the storm, Bright as the pharos, as the watch-tower strong, With all the patriot's inspiration warm, Thy genius pour'd its thundering voice along.
From Poems (1828) by Thomas Gent
Henrietta Temple was the light in the pharos amid all his stormy fortunes; thither he directed all the energies of his being; and to gain that port, or sink, was his unflinching resolution.
From Henrietta Temple A Love Story by Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield
He sat there changing colour like a revolving pharos, twisting his fingers hysterically, swallowing air, the picture of guilt.
From Merry Men by Robert Louis Stevenson
