daystar

Example Sentences

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"A brighter day is dawning," cried the famed Horace Mann, "and education is its daystar."

From Time Magazine Archive

So sinks the daystar in the ocean bed.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah

To the east, and right amidships of the dawn, which was all pink, the daystar sparkled like a diamond. 

From Island Nights' Entertainments by Stevenson, Robert Louis

Instead of that the hope that Genevra might in some way be restored to me unspotted, had unconsciously been the daystar of my existence, and I shrank from a final separation.

From Family Pride Or, Purified by Suffering by Holmes, Mary Jane

Quaff from the tongue of the merciful the stream of divine mystery, and behold from the dayspring of divine utterance the unveiled splendor of the daystar of wisdom.

From The Hidden Words of Bahá'u'lláh by Bahá'u'lláh