pharos
Example Sentences
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This pharos has not its like in the world for skill of construction and solidity.
From Grace Darling Heroine of the Farne Islands by Hope, Eva
An Intellectual Capital For twenty years this home of Voltaire was the centre and pharos of the intellectual world.
From A Literary Pilgrimage Among the Haunts of Famous British Authors by Wolfe, Theodore F. (Theodore Frelinghuysen)
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
The remains of the pharos and the fortresses strengthening the sea-wall, were pointed out by the Syrian who accompanied us as a guide, but his faith was a little stronger than mine.
From The Lands of the Saracen Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain by Taylor, Bayard
The only conspicuous landmark visible in approaching the anchorage is the Jail: rather a singular pharos for a settlement in Australia, which boasts its uncontaminated state.
