pharos
Example Sentences
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A third pharos, also brilliantly whitewashed, crowns the Cape, and by its side is a lower sea-facing building, the sanatorium; finally, there is a light at the mole-end of Dakar.
From To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
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
That one lonely figure standing out against the yellow light of the desert may perhaps be as a pharos to the youth of his nation, and save them from the shipwreck which is nigh.
From A House-Party Don Gesualdo and A Rainy June by Ouida
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 O'Shea, John Augustus
The only conspicuous landmark visible in approaching the anchorage is the Jail: rather a singular pharos for a settlement in Australia, which boasts its uncontaminated state.
