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 Robert Louis Stevenson
"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
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 Mitchell Carroll
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
Through all the bewildering discord of his thoughts the face of Perpetua seemed to shine clearly, like the light on a pharos to a striver in an angry sea.
From The Proud Prince by Justin H. (Justin Huntly) McCarthy
