pharos
Example Sentences
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Rebellion raged within: Then SHERIDAN! dilating to the storm, Bright as the pharos, as the watch-tower strong, With all the patriot's inspiration warm, Thy genius pour'd its thundering voice along.
From Poems (1828) by Thomas Gent
Henrietta Temple was the light in the pharos amid all his stormy fortunes; thither he directed all the energies of his being; and to gain that port, or sink, was his unflinching resolution.
From Henrietta Temple A Love Story by Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield
The pharos of the night; where gods might dance.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 280, October 27, 1827 by Various
This pharos has not its like in the world for skill of construction and solidity.
From Grace Darling Heroine of the Farne Islands by Eva Hope
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 Joseph R. (Joseph Rodes) Buchanan
