pharos

Example Sentences

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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

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

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

A nameless player on the World's great stage, He spread his sails, adventured to that shore And reared a pharos with his art sublime, Like Ilion's song-wrought towers, to beacon every clime.

From The Coast of Bohemia by Page, Thomas Nelson