By day the din of his hammer rarely ceased, and by night the flame and sparks from his chimney were a Pharos to all travellers approaching the town.

Antony, feeling his line taut, drew up the prey, and when, as may be imagined, great laughter ensued, "Leave," said Cleopatra, "the fishing rod, autocrat, to us poor sovereigns of Pharos and Canopus; your game is cities, kingdoms, and continents.

Antony, full of repentance and despair, shut himself up in Pharos, and there remained in gloomy isolation.

Amongst other expeditions, I and my son Wilfrid went with the 'Pharos' (Northern Lights Steamer) to the Skerry Vohr Lighthouse, &c. I also visited Newcastle, &c., and returned to Greenwich on Aug. 2nd.

Here with contrary winds we stayed six weeks, and in the end, hauing the winde prosperous, we sailed by Nicaria, Pharos, Delos, and Andros, with sight of many other Ilands in the Archipelago, and arriued at the two castles in Hellespont the 24 of August.

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.

One day Caesar noticed them behaving carelessly, by reason of their supremacy, and suddenly sailed into the harbor, where he burned a number of boats, and disembarking on Pharos slew the inhabitants of the island.

[Sidenote: The Pharos.]

[Sidenote: Great splendor of the Pharos.]

The Pharos was a lofty towerthe accounts say that it was five hundred feet in height, which would be an enormous elevation for such a structureand in a lantern at the top a brilliant light was kept constantly burning, which could be seen over the water for a hundred miles.

In the course of the contest with the Egyptians, Caesar took possession of the Pharos, and of the island on which it stood; and as the Pharos was then regarded as one of the seven wonders of the world, the fame of the exploit, though it was probably nothing remarkable in a military point of view, spread rapidly throughout the world.

In the course of the contest with the Egyptians, Caesar took possession of the Pharos, and of the island on which it stood; and as the Pharos was then regarded as one of the seven wonders of the world, the fame of the exploit, though it was probably nothing remarkable in a military point of view, spread rapidly throughout the world.

[Sidenote: Situation of the Pharos.]

The Pharos was built upon an island, which was connected by a pier or bridge with the main land.

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.

SEE Les avaries: Les Hannetons ... PHAROS AND PHARILLON, by E. M. Forster.

SEE Pharos and Pharillon.

SEE Les avaries: Les Hannetons ... PHAROS AND PHARILLON, by E. M. Forster.

The island called Pharos; poems, by Archibald Fleming, pseud.

One of these experiments of paper money, however, begun under the most promising auspices, and on a professed basis of convertibility, was yet so stupendous and awful in its effects, that it has taken its place as a Pharos in History, and is never to be forgotten.

SEVEN WONDERS OF THE WORLD, the pyramids of Egypt, the hanging gardens of Babylon, the tomb of Mausolus, the temple of Diana at Ephesus, the Colossus of Rhodes, the statue of Jupiter by Phidias at Olympia, and the Pharos at Alexandria.

SORTES VIRGILIANÆ, consulting the pages of Virgil to ascertain one's fortune, by opening the book at random, putting the finger on a passage and taking that for the oracle of fate one is in quest of. SOSTRATUS, architect of the Pharos of Alexandria, lived in the 3rd century B.C., and was patronised by Ptolemy Philadelphus.

Fine woven purple linen XLIX When I am home from travel L When I behold the pharos shine LI

L When I behold the pharos shine And lay a path along the sea, How gladly I shall feel the spray, Standing upon the swinging prow; And question of my pilot old, 5 How many watery leagues to sail

LXXXIV Soft was the wind in the beech-trees; Low was the surf on the shore; In the blue dusk one planet Like a great sea-pharos shone.