pharos
Example Sentences
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The pharos was probably a linen garment of Egyptian origin, which was sometimes worn instead of the peplus.
From Greek Women by Mitchell Carroll
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 Theodore F. (Theodore Frelinghuysen) Wolfe
Sometimes, O Lord, thou lightest in my head A lamp that well might pharos all the lands; Anon the light will neither rise nor spread: Shrouded in danger gray the beacon stands!
From The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 2 by George MacDonald
Misfortune to some natures is a pharos, which illumines to their eyes the dark low corners of social existence.
From The Lesser Bourgeoisie by Honoré de Balzac
The sun winked in and out like the light of a great pharos.
From Shadows of Flames A Novel by Amélie Rives
