pharos

Example Sentences

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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

The sun winked in and out like the light of a great pharos.

From Shadows of Flames A Novel by Rives, Amélie

There was a remarkable pharos built at Ostia by the Emperor Claudius, which was erected on an artificial breakwater.

From Grace Darling Heroine of the Farne Islands by Hope, Eva

That one lonely figure standing out against the yellow light of the desert may perhaps be as a pharos to the youth of his nation, and save them from the shipwreck which is nigh.

From A House-Party Don Gesualdo and A Rainy June by Ouida

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