pharos

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Thus the nymph Calypso "donned a great shining pharos, light of woof and gracious, and about her waist she cast a fair golden girdle, and a veil withal on her head."

From Greek Women by Carroll, Mitchell

A nameless player on the World's great stage, He spread his sails, adventured to that shore And reared a pharos with his art sublime, Like Ilion's song-wrought towers, to beacon every clime.

From The Coast of Bohemia by Page, Thomas Nelson

There was a remarkable pharos built at Ostia by the Emperor Claudius, which was erected on an artificial breakwater.

From Grace Darling Heroine of the Farne Islands by Hope, Eva

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

An Intellectual Capital For twenty years this home of Voltaire was the centre and pharos of the intellectual world.

From A Literary Pilgrimage Among the Haunts of Famous British Authors by Wolfe, Theodore F. (Theodore Frelinghuysen)