daystar

Example Sentences

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"A brighter day is dawning," cried the famed Horace Mann, "and education is its daystar."

From Time Magazine Archive

He beamed, the daystar of the rising age.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah

Now from the shuttered east a silvery bar Shines through the mist, and shows the mild daystar.

From An Anthology of Australian Verse by Stevens, Bertram

And lo, wonder of metempsychosis, it is she, the everlasting bride, harbinger of the daystar, the bride, ever virgin.

From Ulysses by Joyce, James

To the east, and right amidships of the dawn, which was all pink, the daystar sparkled like a diamond. 

From Island Nights' Entertainments by Stevenson, Robert Louis