pharos
Example Sentences
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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
There was a remarkable pharos built at Ostia by the Emperor Claudius, which was erected on an artificial breakwater.
From Grace Darling Heroine of the Farne Islands by Eva Hope
"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
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
This pharos has not its like in the world for skill of construction and solidity.
From Grace Darling Heroine of the Farne Islands by Eva Hope
