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

She wears a girdle that blazes like that pharos at Dubræ, which I have seen; she goes belted with flame that dazzles the eyes.

From Nicanor - Teller of Tales A Story of Roman Britain by Kinney, Margaret West

This pharos has not its like in the world for skill of construction and solidity.

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

And lastly when dawn ends the night And belts the semi-orb of sea, The tall, pale pharos in the light Looks white and spectral as may be.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XXII (of 25) Juvenilia and Other Papers by Stevenson, Robert Louis

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