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
Instead of that the hope that Genevra might in some way be restored to me unspotted, had unconsciously been the daystar of my existence, and I shrank from a final separation.
From Family Pride Or, Purified by Suffering by Holmes, Mary Jane
This is the daystar of wisdom and of divine mystery that hath shone above the horizon of the divine will.
From The Hidden Words of Bahá'u'lláh by Bahá'u'lláh
Quaff from the tongue of the merciful the stream of divine mystery, and behold from the dayspring of divine utterance the unveiled splendor of the daystar of wisdom.
From The Hidden Words of Bahá'u'lláh by Bahá'u'lláh
Loudon has had it in his head for some time;—ever since that colic of forty-eight hours, I should guess; upon the wrecks of which it might well rise as a new daystar.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 20 by Carlyle, Thomas
