pharos

Example Sentences

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

From Merry Men by Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

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 it is here again that Astronomy surpasses all the other sciences, that it becomes our sovereign teacher, that it is the pharos of modern philosophy.

From Astronomy for Amateurs by Welby, Frances A. (Frances Alice)

Heed this confession of a woman to whom fame has been like a pharos, warning her of the only true path.

From Beatrix by Wormeley, Katharine Prescott