pharos
Example Sentences
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Misfortune to some natures is a pharos, which illumines to their eyes the dark low corners of social existence.
From The Lesser Bourgeoisie by Honoré de Balzac
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 Sir Richard Francis Burton
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 Robert Louis Stevenson
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 Joel Barlow
"That is a lighthouse—they call it a pharos, after the one that Ptolemy built; it must have stood about in the same direction."
From The Ship Dwellers A Story of a Happy Cruise by Albert Bigelow Paine
