pharos
Example Sentences
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Misfortune to some natures is a pharos, which illumines to their eyes the dark low corners of social existence.
From The Lesser Bourgeoisie by Honoré de Balzac
This pharos has not its like in the world for skill of construction and solidity.
From Grace Darling Heroine of the Farne Islands by Eva Hope
He sat there changing colour like a revolving pharos, twist316ing his fingers hysterically, swallowing air, the picture of guilt.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson Swanston Edition Vol. 6 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
Immediately above this rose a steep and rocky mount, on the top of which in old times had been a pharos or lighthouse, from which the height derived its name of Gibralfaro.*
From Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada by Washington Irving
Heed this confession of a woman to whom fame has been like a pharos, warning her of the only true path.
From Beatrix by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
