pharos

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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)

Through all the bewildering discord of his thoughts the face of Perpetua seemed to shine clearly, like the light on a pharos to a striver in an angry sea.

From The Proud Prince by McCarthy, Justin H. (Justin Huntly)

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

Rebellion raged within: Then SHERIDAN! dilating to the storm,   Bright as the pharos, as the watch-tower strong, With all the patriot's inspiration warm,   Thy genius pour'd its thundering voice along.

From Poems (1828) by Gent, Thomas

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