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
A light, varied of blue and red, blazes like a pharos over its portals to entice the customers.
From Mated from the Morgue A tale of the Second Empire by John Augustus O'Shea
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
And it is here again that Astronomy surpasses all the other sciences, that it becomes our sovereign teacher, that it is the pharos of modern philosophy.
From Astronomy for Amateurs by Frances A. (Frances Alice) Welby
