pharos

Example Sentences

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"The forum of France was to be the pharos of humanity."

From Modeste Mignon by Balzac, Honoré de

The sun winked in and out like the light of a great pharos.

From Shadows of Flames A Novel by Rives, Amélie

She wears a girdle that blazes like that pharos at Dubræ, which I have seen; she goes belted with flame that dazzles the eyes.

From Nicanor - Teller of Tales A Story of Roman Britain by Kinney, Margaret West

And lastly when dawn ends the night And belts the semi-orb of sea, The tall, pale pharos in the light Looks white and spectral as may be.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XXII (of 25) Juvenilia and Other Papers by Stevenson, Robert Louis

Fleets swiftly ply where lagged the lone batteau, And quarries trench the gorge; Where waned the council-fire, now steadfast glow The pharos and the forge.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866 by Various