She could see, some way off but clearly, the beacons on the coast of hope.
Strange beacons were seen at night upon the Wicklow Hills.
See, the beacons are all alight along the hilltops!
Staggering against the doorpost, the girl watched the beacons on the hills, as, fed with furze, they flared up and glowed awhile, then dwindled and died out one by one.
Such facial markings seem especially characteristic of gregarious animals; and they are peculiarly significant as social symbols rather than as mere beacons for guidance in flight.
Still red blood calls, still rings the valiant fray; Adventure beacons through the summer gloaming: Oh long and long and long will be the day Ere I come homing!
Meantime we are nearing Cowes in our sail from Portsmouth, and must mind the rocks and beacons rather than soliloquies, for this one question may be put after all:—Is it right to moralize at all in a log-book?
Then the ship-lights sparkled numerous on the stream, and red rays from the beacons glinted athwart our sail.
It lights the beaconsof Faith and Freedom, and heats the furnace through which the earnest and loyal pass to immortal glory.
Five beacons were stationed between Block Island and Portsmouth to give warning of the first approach of danger, and the Colony's war sloop, the Tartar, of a hundred and fifteen tons burthen held in readiness for instant service.
A line ofbeacons was established from Wonumytomoni Hill, near Newport, to Mooshausick Hill, in Providence.
Guess naow all pilots git up agin hard fixes onct in a while, where the finest flash beacons in the hull world caint help 'em any.
After which, beacons of piles of wood, were set fire to on Herringfleet and Mousehold Heath.
The Shear Beacon must be kept a little open to the left or eastward of the West Beacon, until you get abreast of the lighthouse; after which, both beacons should be kept in one.
The high part of the Western Reef, bearing South by East leads into the fairway of the Western Channel, when will be seen the white beaconsover Lagoon Bay.
Englishmen are notorious for the facility they have of making money, and some enterprising men among our forefathers lighted beacons along the coast, and levied tolls upon those who benefited by their light; and James I.
Many after attempts were made to put beacons upon the Inchcape, but all were destroyed by the stormy waves, one after the other, until Robert Stevenson undertook to build a structure that should be strong enough to stand.
Then said Ethelwulf; "Choose now one who shall have charge under you of the watchings and beacons on your shore.
Now I had not thought that they would have bided when the beacons were lit; but would have gone out westward with this tide.
Acetylene has also been used for the illumination of beacons and other unattended lights.
These apparatus have been fitted to beaconsand buoys, and are generally arranged to automatically switch off the current during the day-time.
Incandescent electric lighting has been adopted for the illumination of certain light-vessels in the United States, and a few small harbour and port lights, beacons and buoys.
The introduction of Pintsch's gas system in the early 'seventies provided a means of illumination for beacons and buoys of which large use has been made.
The soul of Adonais beacons to thee 'from the abode where the Eternal are.
Whilst, burning through the inmost veil of heaven, The soul of Adonais, like a star, Beaconsfrom the abode where the Eternal are.
While, by the strand, Cette, with its glistening houses white, Curves with the curving beach away To where the lighthouse beacons bright Far in the bay.
By Chong Mong-ju's orders the beacons flared their nightly message of peace.
And night by night the peace-beacons flared, while day and night Chong Mong-ju's messengers killed horses on all the roads of Cho-Sen.
Nightly the single beacons flared their message of peace across the land.
Just beyond Llanvihangel the road to Raglan branches off to the left, and a glance backwards shows the great mass of the Brecknock Beacons silhouetted against the western sky.
The luminaries of the press are no beacons for the people during this bloody and deadly tempest!
The sun had evidently been at work up here while we were in the south, as some of the beacons were quite bent over, and great icicles told us clearly enough how powerful the sunshine had been.
The beacons we had put up came to our aid, and for our final success we owe a deep debt of gratitude to our prudence and thoughtfulness in adopting this expedient.
Of the various dogs we had killed on our way south and laid on the tops of beacons I did not see even so much as that.
We had determined to mark it not only at right angles to our course -- that is, from east to west -- but by snow beacons at every two geographical miles to the south.
We had now gone the full distance, and according to the beacons we had passed, we ought to be on the spot.
In spite of these unfavourable conditions, we passed beacon after beacon, and at the end of our march had picked up all the beacons we had erected on this distance of seventeen miles and three-eighths.
But with this glacier lying straight across our line of route, and with the numerous beacons we had erected, we reassured ourselves on this score.
We had not put up more than two beacons on this stretch, but the ground was of such a nature that we thought we could not go wrong.
We had been expecting to stumble upon one of our beacons before long, but this did not happen until we had gone twelve and a half miles.
During our stay here we decided to build beacons at every fifth kilometre, and to lay down depots at every degree of latitude.
From the experience thus gained, we afterwards erected the whole of our extensive system of beacons on the way south.
So as not to fall into these on the return, we erected our beacons in such a way that the line between any two of them would take us clear of any danger.
Although these beacons were not more than about 3 feet high, they were extremely conspicuous on the level surface.
Portable beacons employing gas were used during the war on some of the flying-fields near the battle front.
The light-sources of beacons have had the same history as those of other navigation lights.
In the hundred years since the Boston Light was built the same great changes wrought by the development of artificial light in other activities of civilization have appeared in the beacons of the mariner.
Many of these beacons of safety are automatic in operation and require little attention.
Mighty lanterns, the shells of her great buildings, gave to the night the crimson beacons which seemed dyed with the very blood of the dead.
The watchfires on the hills were the beaconsof her happiness.
When the tourist had released himself and was proceeding on his way to Rome there were the beacons dotted along the coast for him to notice, beacons for signalling the sighting of a Turk or corsair vessel from south to north in a few hours.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "beacons" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
