pharos

Example Sentences

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Lights o'er the land, from cities lost in shade, New constellations, new galaxies spread, And each high pharos double flames provides, One from its fires, one fainter from the tides.

From The Columbiad by Barlow, Joel

Misfortune to some natures is a pharos, which illumines to their eyes the dark low corners of social existence.

From The Lesser Bourgeoisie by Balzac, Honoré de

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

Sometimes, O Lord, thou lightest in my head   A lamp that well might pharos all the lands; Anon the light will neither rise nor spread:   Shrouded in danger gray the beacon stands!

From The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 2 by MacDonald, George