pharos
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Fleets swiftly ply where lagged the lone batteau, And quarries trench the gorge; Where waned the council-fire, now steadfast glow The pharos and the forge.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866 by Various
Like sister sails that drift at night Together on the deep, Seen only where they cross the light That pathless waves must pathlike keep From fisher's signal fire, or pharos steep.
From Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations by Various
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 Washington Irving
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 John Augustus O'Shea
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 Joseph R. (Joseph Rodes) Buchanan
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