pharos

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He sat there changing colour like a revolving pharos, twist316ing his fingers hysterically, swallowing air, the picture of guilt.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson Swanston Edition Vol. 6 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis

Through all the bewildering discord of his thoughts the face of Perpetua seemed to shine clearly, like the light on a pharos to a striver in an angry sea.

From The Proud Prince by McCarthy, Justin H. (Justin Huntly)

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

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 Buchanan, Joseph R. (Joseph Rodes)

The greater part of the pharos of the Romans were much higher than the most celebrated modern towers.

From Smeaton and Lighthouses A Popular Biography, with an Historical Introduction and Sequel by Smeaton, John