单词 | pharos |
例句 | An Intellectual Capital For twenty years this home of Voltaire was the centre and pharos of the intellectual world. A Literary Pilgrimage Among the Haunts of Famous British Authors 2012-02-17T03:00:36.500Z A light, varied of blue and red, blazes like a pharos over its portals to entice the customers. Mated from the Morgue A tale of the Second Empire 2011-11-15T03:00:23.507Z "That is a lighthouse—they call it a pharos, after the one that Ptolemy built; it must have stood about in the same direction." The Ship Dwellers A Story of a Happy Cruise A nameless player on the World's great stage, He spread his sails, adventured to that shore And reared a pharos with his art sublime, Like Ilion's song-wrought towers, to beacon every clime. The Coast of Bohemia The sun winked in and out like the light of a great pharos. Shadows of Flames A Novel The pharos was probably a linen garment of Egyptian origin, which was sometimes worn instead of the peplus. Greek Women That one lonely figure standing out against the yellow light of the desert may perhaps be as a pharos to the youth of his nation, and save them from the shipwreck which is nigh. A House-Party Don Gesualdo and A Rainy June The greater part of the pharos of the Romans were much higher than the most celebrated modern towers. Smeaton and Lighthouses A Popular Biography, with an Historical Introduction and Sequel And lastly when dawn ends the night And belts the semi-orb of sea, The tall, pale pharos in the light Looks white and spectral as may be. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XXII (of 25) Juvenilia and Other Papers He sat there changing colour like a revolving pharos, twist316ing his fingers hysterically, swallowing air, the picture of guilt. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson Swanston Edition Vol. 6 (of 25) Thus the nymph Calypso "donned a great shining pharos, light of woof and gracious, and about her waist she cast a fair golden girdle, and a veil withal on her head." Greek Women And there the wells still remain, a standing example, a pharos to enlighten the world. Buchanan's Journal of Man, November 1887 Volume 1, Number 10 Through all the bewildering discord of his thoughts the face of Perpetua seemed to shine clearly, like the light on a pharos to a striver in an angry sea. The Proud Prince And it is here again that Astronomy surpasses all the other sciences, that it becomes our sovereign teacher, that it is the pharos of modern philosophy. Astronomy for Amateurs Fleets swiftly ply where lagged the lone batteau, And quarries trench the gorge; Where waned the council-fire, now steadfast glow The pharos and the forge. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866 This pharos has not its like in the world for skill of construction and solidity. Grace Darling Heroine of the Farne Islands She wears a girdle that blazes like that pharos at Dubræ, which I have seen; she goes belted with flame that dazzles the eyes. Nicanor - Teller of Tales A Story of Roman Britain Henrietta Temple was the light in the pharos amid all his stormy fortunes; thither he directed all the energies of his being; and to gain that port, or sink, was his unflinching resolution. Henrietta Temple A Love Story Like sister sails that drift at night Together on the deep, Seen only where they cross the light That pathless waves must pathlike keep From fisher's signal fire, or pharos steep. Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations The only conspicuous landmark visible in approaching the anchorage is the Jail: rather a singular pharos for a settlement in Australia, which boasts its uncontaminated state. Discoveries in Australia, Volume 1. With an Account of the Coasts and Rivers Explored and Surveyed During The Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, in the Years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43. By Command of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. Also a Narrative Of Captain Owen Stanley's Visits to the Islands in the Arafura Sea. There was a remarkable pharos built at Ostia by the Emperor Claudius, which was erected on an artificial breakwater. Grace Darling Heroine of the Farne Islands When at length the boat crunched upon the sandy shore he got up unsteadily from the stern and pointed to the pharos that flamed in the heavens. O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920 The pharos of the night; where gods might dance. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 280, October 27, 1827 Rebellion raged within: Then SHERIDAN! dilating to the storm, Bright as the pharos, as the watch-tower strong, With all the patriot's inspiration warm, Thy genius pour'd its thundering voice along. Poems (1828) He sat there changing colour like a revolving pharos, twisting his fingers hysterically, swallowing air, the picture of guilt. Merry Men 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! The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 2 A third pharos, also brilliantly whitewashed, crowns the Cape, and by its side is a lower sea-facing building, the sanatorium; finally, there is a light at the mole-end of Dakar. To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I Lights o'er the land, from cities lost in shade, New constellations, new galaxies spread, And each high pharos double flames provides, One from its fires, one fainter from the tides. The Columbiad The remains of the pharos and the fortresses strengthening the sea-wall, were pointed out by the Syrian who accompanied us as a guide, but his faith was a little stronger than mine. The Lands of the Saracen Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain The grounds were intended to stretch over the downs to a great distance, and on the highest point was to stand a pharos, whose light would be visible from the Solent. John Keble's Parishes Immediately above this rose a steep and rocky mount, on the top of which in old times had been a pharos or lighthouse, from which the height derived its name of Gibralfaro.* Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada Heed this confession of a woman to whom fame has been like a pharos, warning her of the only true path. Beatrix Misfortune to some natures is a pharos, which illumines to their eyes the dark low corners of social existence. The Lesser Bourgeoisie "The forum of France was to be the pharos of humanity." Modeste Mignon "The sun has touched with gold the top of Sir Walter Scott's monument"—and, indeed, the extreme point of the monument blazed like the light of a pharos. The Underground City, or, the Child of the Cavern The man who guided Salammbo made her ascend again beyond the pharos in the direction of the Catacombs, and then go down the long suburb of Molouya, which was full of steep lanes. Salammbo They wondered at the silence, which was occasionally broken by the hoarse breathing of the elephants moving in their shackles, and the crepitation of the pharos, in which a pile of aloes was burning. Salammbo |
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