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

When the owls cry and the crickets chirp, my wife leaves my bed, and until the daystar appears, I lie alone, torn with curiosity, to know where she is, and what she is doing.

From Welsh Fairy Tales by Griffis, William Elliot

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

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

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

From Ulysses by Joyce, James