pharos

Example Sentences

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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)

The grounds were intended to stretch over the downs to a great distance, and on the highest point was to stand a pharos, whose light would be visible from the Solent. 

From John Keble's Parishes by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

"The forum of France was to be the pharos of humanity."

From Modeste Mignon by Balzac, Honoré de

Heed this confession of a woman to whom fame has been like a pharos, warning her of the only true path.

From Beatrix by Wormeley, Katharine Prescott

"That is a lighthouse—they call it a pharos, after the one that Ptolemy built; it must have stood about in the same direction."

From The Ship Dwellers A Story of a Happy Cruise by Paine, Albert Bigelow