pharos

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A light, varied of blue and red, blazes like a pharos over its portals to entice the customers.

From Mated from the Morgue A tale of the Second Empire by O'Shea, John Augustus

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 Hope, Eva

And there the wells still remain, a standing example, a pharos to enlighten the world.

From Buchanan's Journal of Man, November 1887 Volume 1, Number 10 by Buchanan, Joseph R. (Joseph Rodes)

Thus the nymph Calypso "donned a great shining pharos, light of woof and gracious, and about her waist she cast a fair golden girdle, and a veil withal on her head."

From Greek Women by Carroll, Mitchell

That one lonely figure standing out against the yellow light of the desert may perhaps be as a pharos to the youth of his nation, and save them from the shipwreck which is nigh.

From A House-Party Don Gesualdo and A Rainy June by Ouida