pharos

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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

The greater part of the pharos of the Romans were much higher than the most celebrated modern towers.

From Smeaton and Lighthouses A Popular Biography, with an Historical Introduction and Sequel by Smeaton, John

"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

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

And there the wells still remain, a standing example, a pharos to enlighten the world.

From Buchanan's Journal of Man, November 1887 Volume 1, Number 10 by Buchanan, Joseph R. (Joseph Rodes)