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

He beamed, the daystar of the rising age.

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

Loudon has had it in his head for some time;—ever since that colic of forty-eight hours, I should guess; upon the wrecks of which it might well rise as a new daystar.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 20 by Carlyle, Thomas

And lo, wonder of metempsychosis, it is she, the everlasting bride, harbinger of the daystar, the bride, ever virgin.

From Ulysses by Joyce, James

Did they not, by God’s grace, shine out like the daystar from the horizons of Divine knowledge?

From The Secret of Divine Civilization by `Abdu'l-Bahá