beacon-light

He considered himself as fulfilling a sacred duty, while renewing to the eyes of posterity the decaying emblems of the zeal and sufferings of their forefathers, and thereby trimming, as it were, the beacon-light, which was to warn future generations to defend their religion even unto blood.

Old Mortality 2004

Here was a tall flag-staff for signals, and a place for a beacon-light when needed, and a bench with a rest for a spy-glass.

Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004

He was its beacon-light; it was around Mrs. Clemens that its affairs steadily revolved.

Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

Then a line became defined on the belt of foam, and there gleamed a luminous beacon-light point behind a low hill which concealed the scarcely risen sun.

In Search of the Castaways 2003

We had meant to attack at dark, but the wish for food stopped us, and then we had swarms of visitors, for our beacon-light advertised us over half Hauran.

Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

And now her father had been appointed keeper of the Lime Rock Light, the "Ida Lewis" light, as it came to be known in later years, and the girl's home was no longer to be on _terra firma_, but on the rock-ribbed island where the lighthouse stood, whose beacon-light cast strong, steady rays across Baker's Bay, to the greater Narragansett

Ten American Girls From History Kate Dickinson Sweetser

Had she not always told us that we were criminals of the deepest dye not to do what she had done in the West-Indies, had she not always held out to the world the beacon-light of emancipation, there could be little censure cast upon the British ermine; but having laid claim to so white and moral a robe, she subjects herself to the very proper indignation of the anti-slavery party which now governs the

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy. Various

Dalton made the atom a beacon-light which revealed to chemists paths that led them to wider and more accurate knowledge.

The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry M. M. Pattison Muir

In the last week of October, 1911, she fell asleep in the lighthouse on Lime Rock, which had been her home for so long, lulled into an eternal repose by the wind and waves, which had for many years been her beloved companions -- and as she slept the beacon-light which she had for so long kept trimmed and burning sent out its rays far beyond the little bay where Ida Lewis lay asleep.

Ten American Girls From History Kate Dickinson Sweetser

Out flashed the rays of the beacon-light, and far off on the tempestuous waves Ida saw what seemed to be two men in a boat with a load of sheep.

Ten American Girls From History Kate Dickinson Sweetser