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Example sentences for "lodestar"

Lexicographically close words:
locutus; lod; lode; loden; lodes; lodestone; lodge; lodged; lodgement; lodgepole
  1. A good way to approach it in the proper spirit of pilgrimage is to walk from the station at Sermizelle with the church of St. Magdalene as the lodestar to guide one's steps.

  2. The discovery of a route overland to the north sea was to become the lodestar of Radisson's life.

  3. With that daring which was to prove both the lodestar and the curse of his life, young Radisson laughed to scorn the sudden change of mind.

  4. In 1676, France granted him fishing privileges on the island of Anticosti; but the lodestar of the fur trade still drew him, for that year he was called to Quebec to meet a company of traders conferring on the price of beaver.

  5. FAUST'S LAST DAY The Doctor got up at dawn, as was his wont, and as soon as he was dressed he sat down at his desk in his library overlooking the sea, and immersed himself in the studies which were the lodestar of his existence.

  6. She was immediately spellbound by Franz's music, and he became the lodestar of her dreams.

  7. As I have said before, Emily Fox-Seton has become the lodestar of my existence.

  8. I am selfish myself, and I realise that is the reason why Emily Fox-Seton is becoming the lodestar of my existence.

  9. A light which now shone brightly in one of the windows of the governor's house was the lodestar to which all his thoughts were turned; and as he sat in the cabin with Amyas, Cary, and Jack, he opened his heart to them.

  10. Tuesday morning, after a severe questioning by the foreman, Carl was given a week's try-out without pay at the Lodestar factory.

  11. You go over to the Lodestar Motor Company's office, over on La Salle, Monday, and ask for Bill Coogan, on the sales end.

  12. What do they say up in the carbonate camp about the Lodestar business?

  13. I saw that reciprocity was the lodestar of his life.

  14. He has come at last--the lodestar of our existence!

  15. These were hours to live, precious every one of them--and who would not worship the gold which brought them, who would not turn to it as to the lodestar of desire?

  16. Not for an instant since she stood upon the lawn at Ascot and witnessed the defeat of her great horse Lodestar had she ceased to tell herself that the world pointed the finger at her and held up her name to scorn.

  17. I ran a horse named Lodestar under the name of Count Donato.

  18. God was not in us; and instead of bright hope, and the clear fixed lodestar of duty, weltered in our imaginations a wild possible future of tumult, and flame, and blood.

  19. I did not attempt to analyse the intense, overpowering instinct which from that moment made the lovely vision I had seen the lodestar of all my thoughts.


  20. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lodestar" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    ambition; aspiration; basis; calling; cause; comet; consideration; cynosure; focus; goal; ground; guide; ideal; inspiration; intention; lodestar; lodestone; magnet; mainspring; matter; orb; principle; reason; sake; score; source; sphere; spring; star; vocation