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• The uncertain flicker of the flames and sparks from our beacon (which, though itself invisible, darkened and lightened like sheet lightning), the dismal umbery glimmer of the waning moon, and the pale approach of day over the mountains to the east, made the face appear almost ghastly. The Dew of Their Youth
• Most of the time these visuals are circling out and around the auditorium like the beacon of a lighthouse. Times, Sunday Times
• An orbiting satellite picked up a distress signal from the ship's emergency beacon, standard equipment on all modern boats.
• They had divers arsenals, or piratic harbors, as likewise watch towers and beacons, all along the sea-coast; and fleets were here received that were well manned with the finest mariners, and well served with the expertest pilots, and composed of swift sailing and light-built vessels adapted for their special purpose. The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
• Havel has become his country's beacon of democracy and hope.
• First, the causeways may have probably been made "during the construction of the tower with its central pole," (here the cairn is a habitable beacon, habitable on all hypotheses,) or, again, The Clyde Mystery a Study in Forgeries and Folklore
• A huge black beacon waddled along, dragging a reluctant mass of iron at the end of its chain cable, followed by a roughly-built "flatty" and a huge log of silkwood. Confessions of a Beachcomber
• The firewood, soaked in oil, blazed up immediately, and his boat became a beacon of flame, drifting downstream towards Lake Tallian.
• We also needed to confirm the airport would be open, and the airport lights and non-directional beacon were working.
• The Bush administration claimed that Ethiopia was the linch-pin of its regional counterterrorism strategy and a vital beacon of stability. With a Friend Like This