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
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A star, a daystar, a firedrake, rose at his birth.
From Ulysses by James Joyce
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
He beamed, the daystar of the rising age.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster
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