pharos

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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 Irving, Washington

A third pharos, also brilliantly whitewashed, crowns the Cape, and by its side is a lower sea-facing building, the sanatorium; finally, there is a light at the mole-end of Dakar.

From To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

He sat there changing colour like a revolving pharos, twisting his fingers hysterically, swallowing air, the picture of guilt.

From Merry Men by Stevenson, Robert Louis

Soon as darkness comes upon Grande Anse the face of the clock in the church-tower is always lighted: you see it suddenly burst into yellow glow above the roofs and the cocoa-palms,—just like a pharos.

From Two Years in the French West Indies by Hearn, Lafcadio

And it is here again that Astronomy surpasses all the other sciences, that it becomes our sovereign teacher, that it is the pharos of modern philosophy.

From Astronomy for Amateurs by Welby, Frances A. (Frances Alice)