pharos

Example Sentences

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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

When at length the boat crunched upon the sandy shore he got up unsteadily from the stern and pointed to the pharos that flamed in the heavens.

From O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920 by Various

He sat there changing colour like a revolving pharos, twist316ing his fingers hysterically, swallowing air, the picture of guilt.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson Swanston Edition Vol. 6 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis

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