For ten years he had waited for the signal of the beacon-fire to be lit at Nauplia, the port of Argos, to announce the fall of Troy. ❋ T. W. Lumb (N/A)
Meanwhile, Li Hsiung's general, Li Hsiang, had prepared an ambuscade on their line of march; and P ` o-t ` ai, having reared long scaling-ladders against the city walls, now lighted the beacon-fire. ❋ 6th Cent. B.C. Sunzi (N/A)
"Thou wilt have it a beacon-fire," Eloisà interposed again; "it is in truth more romantic than a blaze some wanderer may have lighted to do duty for his camp." ❋ Lawrence Turnbull (N/A)
The beacon-fire was known to the ancients, and the fire-towers of the Mediterranean were justly celebrated. ❋ Eva Hope (N/A)
On the opposite side of the steep-sided dale Penhill stands out prominently, with its flat summit reflecting just enough of the setting sun to recall a momentous occasion when from that commanding spot a real beacon-fire sent up a great mass of flame and sparks. ❋ Gordon Home (1923)
The facts of variability, of the struggle for existence, of adaptation to conditions, were notorious enough; but none of us had suspected that the road to the heart of the species problem lay through them until Darwin and Wallace dispelled the darkness, and the beacon-fire of the ❋ Huxley, Leonard, 1860-1933 (1920)
The ancient Arabs always lit a beacon-fire as a proclamation of war, or a notice of the approach of an enemy. ❋ Unknown (1909)
Remember on the third night to kindle the big fire we've agreed on just outside your door on the terrace -- the beacon-fire, you know. ❋ George Allan England (1906)
The facts of variability, of the struggle for existence, of adaptation to conditions, were notorious enough; but none of us had suspected that the road to the heart of the species problem lay through them, until Darwin and Wallace dispelled the darkness, and the beacon-fire of the ❋ Unknown (1904)
There, the seventh day before the kalends, in the middle hour of the night, you shall see a beacon-fire and near it my colors. ❋ Irving Bacheller (1904)
Here are the clumsy leather-topped coach with its masked occupant and stumbling horses; the towed _trekschuit_, with its merry freight, sliding swiftly through the low-lying landscape; the windy mole, stretching seaward, with its blown and flaring beacon-fire. ❋ Unknown (1903)
But the Havre, the neighborhood of the Havre drew Isidore like a beacon-fire. ❋ Maurice Leblanc (1902)
The facts of variability, of the struggle for existence, of adaptation to conditions, were notorious enough; but none of us had suspected that the road to the heart of the species problem lay through them, until Darwin and Wallace dispelled the darkness, and the beacon-fire of the "Origin" guided the benighted. ❋ Huxley, Leonard (1900)
Nigrinus is the beacon-fire on which, far out in mid-ocean, in the darkness of night, I fix my gaze; I fancy him present with me in all my doings; I hear ever the same words. ❋ Of Samosata Lucian (1895)
My pyre should be built on the island facing me; its flames would be seen for miles and miles; the lake would be lighted up by it, and my body would become a sort of beacon-fire -- the beacon of the pagan future awaiting old Ireland! ❋ Unknown (1892)
The bravest gentleman, a poet, a thinker, a man like a beacon-fire, had loved her and cried her aloud as a goddess out of his reach. ❋ Maurice Hewlett (1892)
Shouts of triumph rose above the exploding of the guns; in every tower bells jangled noisily, and on the summit of the last gateway on the bridge, which from every loophole and window poured on us a deadly hail of slugs, a beacon-fire blazed up, turning the black water below us to blood. ❋ Stanley John Weyman (1891)
I've known him take his hedging-bill, in his dinner-hour, and cut fuel for our beacon-fire, when we were playing at a French Invasion. ❋ Unknown (1886)
