pharos

Example Sentences

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Misfortune to some natures is a pharos, which illumines to their eyes the dark low corners of social existence.

From The Lesser Bourgeoisie by Balzac, Honoré de

A light, varied of blue and red, blazes like a pharos over its portals to entice the customers.

From Mated from the Morgue A tale of the Second Empire by O'Shea, John Augustus

Fleets swiftly ply where lagged the lone batteau, And quarries trench the gorge; Where waned the council-fire, now steadfast glow The pharos and the forge.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866 by Various

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

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)