pharos

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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

The grounds were intended to stretch over the downs to a great distance, and on the highest point was to stand a pharos, whose light would be visible from the Solent. 

From John Keble's Parishes by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

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

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

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