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
A star, a daystar, a firedrake, rose at his birth.
From Ulysses by James Joyce
To the east, and right amidships of the dawn, which was all pink, the daystar sparkled like a diamond.
From Island Nights' Entertainments by Robert Louis Stevenson
When the owls cry and the crickets chirp, my wife leaves my bed, and until the daystar appears, I lie alone, torn with curiosity, to know where she is, and what she is doing.
From Welsh Fairy Tales by William Elliot Griffis
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 Mary Jane Holmes
