How To Use Lighthouse In A Sentence
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It's like being a lighthouse keeper, without the view.
Times, Sunday Times
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When like me you have chosen the tough and rugged regime of living in a lighthouse for two nights, you will know that getting your daily victuals can be a demanding task.
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Our lighthouses are as diverse as our towns.
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The Richards took over the Taranaki lighthouse in 1976 when previous keeper Charlie Mallowes died from a heart attack.
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I found many excellent blogs on lighthouses eg The Keeper's Blog, Old Salt Blog, Shed Some Light on Lighthouses Blog, New England Lighthouse Treasures, Montauk Point but few of them talked about heritage protection, de-manning, funding.
Archive 2009-07-01
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To the north of our house is the ocean, and the lighthouse sits on a cliff above a pretty little inlet beach overlooking the ocean.
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Decades ago, lighthouses evolved into scenic anachronisms as the U.S. Coast Guard converted the sites still in use into fully automated navaids.
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In China, To the Lighthouse is equally favoured, but criticism tends to concentrate on its writing techniques, and many essays attempt to provide a feminist or deconstructionist interpretation.
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One by one they had taken waterproof oilskins and boots from the lighthouse; the last one had apparently locked the outer door behind him.
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As relaxed as the atmosphere is, there is a mute reminder of Poland's past in the landmark red-brick lighthouse at the promenade's western end.
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And from every point on the coast you may get, if the weather is fine which cannot be guaranteed rapturous views across the firth to the Isle of May, with its Stevenson lighthouse.
In praise of … the coast around Crail | Editorial
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The lighthouse at Portland Bill, a famous landmark on the promontory for mariners, stands 135 feet high and was built around 1903
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He had put off with the engineers to visit some remote lighthouse of the Hebrides.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
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Like a lighthouse beacon, this magnetic field has guided ocean voyagers for hundreds of years.
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The lighthouse island was stencilled in bramble-black on a gold-leaf sea.
Try Anything Twice
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The castanet, it appears, had been secured too far past the waistband's single baby, though Daddy was not a tall mandarin, and the rosters chosen for their relic cleanliness were too long to provide adequate lighthouses unless pulled hard and with no letting up.
Farouche
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The classic example of a public good is a lighthouse: unlike a private good, the benefits of the lighthouse are joint and, once produced, are unsusceptible to exclusion.
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SuBo plays a lighthouse keeper.
The Sun
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The Irish Lights vessel ‘Granuaile’ paid a flying visit to the bay earlier in the week to service the Blackrock Lighthouse.
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Keeping an eye on the sea has been the job of 14 successive keepers at Point Pinos Lighthouse since it opened in 1855 in Pacific Grove, northwest of Monterey.
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Most of the time these visuals are circling out and around the auditorium like the beacon of a lighthouse.
Times, Sunday Times
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As the pulsar rotates, this beam sweeps the sky a lighthouse beam sweeps around the horizon.
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Distance: 4kmDuration: 1 hour 15 minsWalk grade: ModerateBeach access: EasyDirections: Head south out of Bideford on the A39 and, just after the Clovelly roundabout, take the right turn on the bend, signposted Hartland and Lighthouse.
Secret beaches of the southwest: Mouthmill Beach
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When I had already been drinking for a good couple of hours, it was finally decided, after long confusion and communication-difficulty between Rye and his Lighthouse friends, that the two of us would be driving to Wollangara Camp - which is between Licola and Heyfield - to participate in part of their annual woodchop weekend.
Archive 2005-06-01
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brightly beams our Father's mercy from his lighthouse evermore
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The lighthouse flashes signal twice a minute.
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Oregon's lighthouses were all but inaccessible when they were built in the 19th century, near shoals and sandbars, treacherous offshore rocks and reefs.
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Oregon's lighthouses were all but inaccessible when they were built in the 19th century, near shoals and sandbars, treacherous offshore rocks and reefs.
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The lighthouse, built in the 1880s, is one of only three of its kind left in the world, and has been fully restored to shine its 5800 candlepower light 33 km out to sea using its original flat lens.
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The less energetic can take the 20-minute bus ride up to the lighthouse from the ferry terminal.
Times, Sunday Times
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The flagship of Trinity House Lighthouse Service, her function is to cruise the coastal waters of England, Wales and the Channel Islands, servicing and repairing lighthouses, lightships, buoys and other navigational markers.
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We made our way to the lighthouse, in full view of the temple, and dropped anchors.
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Luke took Hailey's hand in his, and the two hastily flew down the stairs and out of the lighthouse.
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The wreck, called the Borghild, lies upright on the sea bed just offshore from a lighthouse and her decks are at 42m.
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The lighthouse beam swept across the sea with the same boring exactitude of all beacons.
HAVANA BEST FRIENDS
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It's a straightforward, unimaginative slasher picture about a serial killer convict, one Leo Rook, who kills off warders and fellow lags one by one when they are marooned on a lighthouse.
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He stops near the lighthouse and points towards the south.
Times, Sunday Times
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For nearly 300 years a lighthouse has stood on Portland Bill to guide vessels heading for Portland and Weymouth and acting as a waymark for vessels navigating in the English Channel.
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It is said that the word minaret comes from the Arabic term Al - manar, which means lighthouse and minaret.
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The light flashed out from the little lighthouse.
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The light flashed out from the little lighthouse.
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Then you notice the whacking great big lighthouse back left.
Times, Sunday Times
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In contrast, though, the foghorn blast from a lighthouse is one of the most hellish things on Earth.
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A lighthouse on the cliff warns ships to keep their distance.
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Man must behave like a lighthouse; he must shine day and night for the goodness of every man. Mehmet Murat ildan
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At the time the fleet rounds the lighthouse, they may have less than one metre over them and are therefore extremely dangerous.
Times, Sunday Times
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Nada prepared great garlicky fish steaks, cuttlefish pasta, seafood risotto, grilled mullet, calamares and creamy fish pâté. Everything was caught from the waters surrounding the lighthouse and served with fresh vegetables.
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The bay, the promontories, the little white pencil of a lighthouse stuck on its rock.
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Then, in the distance a foghorn wails and the roaming light of a lighthouse momentarily pierces the shadows.
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The darkness was pierced by the beam from the lighthouse.
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Every twenty seconds their elongated selves were flung before him, their shadows cast down by the lighthouse beam.
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May lighthouse, where the Firth expands into the German Ocean; and away to the west, over all the carse of Stirling, you can see the first snows upon Ben Ledi.
Edinburgh Picturesque Notes
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For ten years the lighthouse was happily staffed by a three man crew, rotated every fortnight.
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Some are just mudflats, some just sandbanks, many are rocky outcrops and skerries known only to seals, albatrosses, and retired lighthouse-keepers.
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The red pulse of the watchtower/lighthouse glows over the darkening scene, and this is what particularly commended the setting to Jan Kott, at a past performance which began at dusk.
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Rising under the shrine is a lighthouse gleaming white in the day, and at night its turning lights brings boats safely home.
The Road To El Dorado
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The Lighthouse itself was once a Cromwellian fort guarding the harbour.
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There was Lighthouse Harry of Revolutionary fame and a Harry Appelbaum who lived on the corner of 93rd Street and Lexington Avenue.
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There is also rock fishing at Europa Point below the Lighthouse for bass fishing, spinners and plugs - though a rubber sand eel on a light trace would be the better bet.
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A single beam of light radiated from the lighthouse.
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Lighthouse miniatures are now being produced and offered for sale.
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A picture of a lighthouse or a beacon was emerging.
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Given the inapplicability of the exclusion principle, there is no economic incentive for private enterprises to supply lighthouses.
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In 1995 an embarrassing conversation between a lighthouse and an aircraft carrier was recorded by the Chief of Naval Operations, the transcript of which leaked out to the general public.
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Man must behave like a lighthouse; he must shine day and night for the goodness of every man. Mehmet Murat ildan
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The frontispiece was a photograph of Captain Jim himself, standing at the door of the lighthouse, looking across the gulf.
Anne's House of Dreams
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You can barely hear the music over the carping, which appears to be getting louder as her debut album approaches: a cynic might say that's just as well, given the recent Saturday Night Live appearance in which she demonstrated her uncanny mastery of the vocal style deployed by Ian Brown during the Stone Roses' later years – she honked like the foghorn on Portland Bill lighthouse.
Lana Del Ray: Born to Die – review
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Twenty years ago an enterprising Jack Jackson ran diving holidays from here, his visitors camping in the courtyard of the lighthouse.
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I particularly enjoyed my encounter with the lighthouse's grumpy postmistress.
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And because of dangerous sailing conditions and flat coastline in the region, the construction of a lighthouse was necessary.
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The tower provided shore accommodation for keepers and kept in communication with the lighthouse by means of flagstaff signals and carrier pigeons.
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I waited there like a fogbound ship looking for the flash of a lighthouse, some sense of direction, a beacon to steer by.
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The light flashed out from the little lighthouse.
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The short link to the island and its lighthouse is submerged at high tide.
Times, Sunday Times
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Here, Bruegel depicted a four-master and two three-masters anchored near a fortified island capped by a lighthouse.
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There are lighthouses all along the eastern shore.
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I was in the vicinity of the lighthouse so I pulled onto the shoulder of the road to ponder my situation.
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Joe asked, as they flew by a lighthouse blinking from a rocky headland.
Chapter X
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On Sunday June 1st a large crowd of walkers left Belmullet to walk 10 miles to the Lighthouse Tavern for Charity.
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The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum on the edge of town had boats on dry land which the kids could climb in, a lighthouse to climb up, fishing nets to climb over, and, inevitably, a history of oystering.
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Most of the time these visuals are circling out and around the auditorium like the beacon of a lighthouse.
Times, Sunday Times
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The darkness was pierced by the beam from the lighthouse.
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Beyond that, people are attracted to lighthouses as a symbol of hope or truth.
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The lighthouse flashes signal twice a minute.
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In the extension of the Mole-what we call a lighthouse extension-there were seven guns, and these guns could fire in any direction.
The Fight at Zeebrugge
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It is topped by a stumpy, Lego-like lighthouse where a keeper and his family lived until 1987, when they were replaced by a light bulb.
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Later the pulsating lights of a lighthouse and a lightship played a part.
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The three spooked lighthouse keepers are very fine.
Times, Sunday Times
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French vocabulary: le phare (m) = lighthouse; la dédicace (f) = inscription; la balade (f) = stroll, walk; la famille (f) = family; Salut, Maman.
French Word-A-Day:
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He was getting winded, and Liz kept moving faster in her excitement at seeing the lighthouse.
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His sun-valve was fitted in a number of lighthouses powered by acetylene gas.
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Then on the Sunday, when he was off duty, we used to take a walk out to the Torry Lighthouse, or down by the auld brig o 'Balgownie, and then hame to an hour's read of the Bible afore I put down the kebbuck and the bannocks.
Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places
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Then you notice the whacking great big lighthouse back left.
Times, Sunday Times
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As they approached the coast the lookouts strained to see the beacon at Black Rock Lighthouse on the horizon, as navigation was left largely to chance in the darkness.
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It used to stand on a pedestal above the Beacon-Light offices on Saratoga Street," Tess explained, walking around the lighthouse.
IN A STRANGE CITY
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From 7.00 p.m. that evening you can enjoy cookery demos and spectacular seafood dishes at the Lighthouse Restaurant.
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The tower provided shore accommodation for keepers and kept in communication with the lighthouse by means of flagstaff signals and carrier pigeons.
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Whether its their isolation, their oddity, or their relationship with shipwreck and disaster, there's barely a lighthouse in the world that hasn't got some creepy and curious history, some tale of hauntings or sea monsters.
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Waves fizzled softly on boulders in the cove, and in the distance a white lighthouse stood on an island.
Times, Sunday Times
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According to Wratten's article, the Chinook was ‘some 15 seconds from the fogbound lighthouse and perilously close to steeply rising ground that was also shrouded in cloud’.
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The tower provided shore accommodation for keepers and kept in communication with the lighthouse by means of flagstaff signals and carrier pigeons.
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the lighthouse, flashing feebly against the sleet-blurred, rocky backdrop of the coast of north west Norway
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Pass a radio mast and follow the track that services it back to the lighthouse car park.
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The present lighthouse is 30 feet higher than Smeaton's, and is fitted with the modern system of dioptric refractors, giving a light of
Yorkshire
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However, with the development of sophisticated radio beacons and automated electrical lighting, as well as shipboard navigational aids, many lighthouses became redundant.
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The round tower looking uncommonly like a lighthouse or a telescope, contains relics of the hero of Trafalgar.
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I imagine lighthouse keepers have much the same eyes.
Times, Sunday Times
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At the time the fleet rounds the lighthouse, they may have less than one metre over them and are therefore extremely dangerous.
Times, Sunday Times
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The light flashed out from the little lighthouse.
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Occasionally the road must be set back, and once the lighthouse was moved back from the cliffs, eaten away by the edacious tooth of the sea.
Among the Forces
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The images include four lighthouses in Maine - Bass Harbor Head Light, Cape Neddick Light, Pemaquid Point Light, and Portland Head Light.
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The lighthouse is made of iron and was completed in 1872.
Archive 2007-05-01
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He flees to an abandoned lighthouse with the hopes of starting over, creating his own self-made, independent, and organic society.
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The boat was a lightship, essentially a lighthouse on a ship, a ship with a lighthouse stuck in the middle of it.
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Your little friendship lamp is now a lighthouse in the fictitious Midwestern city of Springfield.
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The birds may be fatally attracted to lighthouses, offshore drilling platforms, and the high-intensity lamps used by fishermen to lure squid to the surface.
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There are lighthouses all along the eastern shore.
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A listing of lighthouses in the National Park System can be found at the NPS Maritime Parks page.
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Serving no seafaring purpose, the lighthouse is a fascinating landmark on the prairies providing a spectacular view of the many lakes, beaches, and resorts in the area.
The First World War Memoirs of Sampson J. Goodfellow, Part 6: Army Athletics
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Fifty miles southwest of the town on a tiny island in the delta, lies the Adziogol Lighthouse, an important beacon for ships navigating the tangle of sandbanks.
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The lighthouse is just as beautiful inside as out, lined with clear blue opaline tiles that would grace an eastern palace, and with a handsome open staircase.
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Many of the lighthouse keepers attended, as did their families and it was a great afternoon of reminiscing.
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Three lighthouse keepers were duly installed.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the years since then, the Park Service has continued to keep the old lighthouse in operating condition in case its unromantic replacement ever breaks down.
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I imagine lighthouse keepers have much the same eyes.
Times, Sunday Times
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The focus of his meditation is the lighthouse that rears up from within the complex; in rectifying the lapses of the Pallavas, this tower also overshadows the cave temple of Mahishasura-mardini.
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The lighthouse beam was quite distinct in the gathering dusk.
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Sitting almost on Portland Bill Branscombe Lodge Cottage is peacefully situated up a quiet track and offers spectacular views from the lighthouse tower.
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Out near the lighthouse at Cabo Sardão the cliffs were smothered in mesembryanthemum, sherbet-yellow flowers in tangles of fleshy leaves.
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Since they have to be read regularly, they are placed in post offices, farms, radio stations, lighthouses, airports, etc and mostly in towns and cities.
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The lighthouse stands on a plinth of rock undermined by caves, perhaps once used by smugglers.
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The ship seemed tiny and insignificant now, dwarfed by the great tower of the Pharos lighthouse.
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The lighthouse flashes signal twice a minute.
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The 264 ft ship with her 42 ft beam just missed the lighthouse, but the wind and waves drove her high on the rocks, where she stuck fast.
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Nine miles southwest, meanwhile, is a second lighthouse.
Times, Sunday Times
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Utterly useless as a lighthouse (phare), it was put up as a marketing stunt early last century.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was, however, driven back by storms to Port Jackson, which is marked by a very handsome lighthouse, a granite tower seventy-six feet high, with a lantern lit by gas, visible at a distance of nine leagues.
Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century
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The print was Thea Schrack's ‘Yaquina Head Lighthouse.’
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Their efforts can be traced in the many historic sites around the state, from outback sheep stations to colonial lighthouses along the coast.
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The lighthouse beam was quite distinct in the gathering dusk.
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When night falls, the lighthouse and its embracing beacon draw the eye, flashing every five seconds as its loom bounces over the waves.
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In the distance, straight ahead off the bow, I could see the loom of the green five-second light of the Block Island lighthouse.
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Like a lighthouse beacon, this magnetic field has guided ocean voyagers for hundreds of years.
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The "speckles" were everywhere, about the post office, in Ras Beebe's store, about the lighthouse, on the beaches, and far and wide over the hills and hollows.
Galusha the Magnificent
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Lighthouse and beacons flash at night.
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The Northern Lighthouse Board proposals to close their Stromness depot were described on Tuesday as ‘desperately sad’ by the convener of Orkney Islands Council.
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When conditions are good I like to make a day of it, mooring the boat in front of the lighthouse and climbing ashore with a picnic or even a barbecue between dives.
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I used to pretend I was a lighthouse keeper and the dormer was my lighthouse, and I’d look out for boats about to crash on our ront lawn, which I pretended was a treacherous beach.
When Lightning Strikes
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The lighthouse keeper was a huge old man with a grizzled beard that came down over his chest.
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The lighthouse is redundant now; these days it's a tearoom.
Times, Sunday Times
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The lighthouse was built in 1901 and manned until 1966 by two lighthouse keepers.
Times, Sunday Times
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I do not have an official listing of lighthouses in Newfoundland, but I have compiled a list of 37 of them.
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One look at yon great moonface of his and we felt as if the Pladda Lighthouse had been lifted off our backs.
THE LONELY SEA
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Mr Fairbairn, 51, will take 27 days to journey from Bishop Rock on the Isles of Scilly in the South West, to the lighthouse at Muckle Flugga in Shetland, which is set on the most northerly rock in the British Isles.
Undefined
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A lighthouse is not interested in who gets its light! It just gives it without thinking! Giving light is its nature! Mehmet Murat ildan
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When you're alone in the Polo Lounge, the fluting tones of Australia's greatest son beckon you home like a lighthouse.
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Then you notice the whacking great big lighthouse back left.
Times, Sunday Times
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The short link to the island and its lighthouse is submerged at high tide.
Times, Sunday Times
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As we left, a yellow-breasted kiskadee set off from the cannon, ascending in a great arc over the water, soaring high above the hook-shaped archipelago of the Great Sound toward the distant outline of Gibbs Hill Lighthouse, the beat of her wings thankfully undisturbed by the sound of gunfire.
Losing Oneself in Bermuda
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A barber pole motif has been used as a daymark for lighthouses.
Eggheadcafe.com articles
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“I can see the lighthouse on the island,” she said at the top with one long leg hooked over the crosspiece which supported a lantern.
THE FORBIDDEN GAME
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Three lighthouse keepers were duly installed.
Times, Sunday Times
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The aircraft was on a charter and transporting building materials to the Brough of Birsay lighthouse.
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Passengers alighting taxis at the transport hub exited through the bus depot entrance near the lighthouse.
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Sea waves brought by Typhoon Nari hit an abandoned lighthouse on the shore of Keelung yesterday.
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By 1815 a wave of canals, docks, port, and road improvements, waterworks, lighthouses, and bridges were establishing the profession of consulting engineer.
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Now, the cathedral which crowns the hill, roofless and ruinous, is only imposing from a distance, and a part of it is used for the storage of marine or lighthouse stores under our prosaic and irreverent rule.
The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither
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Stromboli in the Aeolian Islands, the peak of Teneriffe, like a lighthouse, would serve to guide the mariner in a circuit of more than 260 leagues.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1
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The tip of the Sark lighthouse is brilliant white against the sky.
Times, Sunday Times
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The ruins of the Cistercian Church which once graced this shore and raised above the trees its lighthouse tower, a seamark by day and a beacon by night, are among the loveliest in Wessex.
Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter
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A squadron of pelicans scuds toward the distant white lighthouse.
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Virtually in the centre of town, the lighthouse towers over you.
The Sun
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On a moonlit winter evening, as the shore approaches, the town lays itself out beneath an electric halo, the Church of Saint-Joseph lifting its lighthouse-like campanile majestically behind.
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Lighthouse tours were included in my vacation package and I was in the mood for sightseeing.
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So because the analysis is half-baked, so too is the solution and as such, when combined with the slight hitch referred to, it will prove as about as effective as a lighthouse in the Bog of Allen.
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Ships were wrecked off Bishop Rock until 1847, when Trinity House decided to erect a lighthouse.
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The Lighthouse was spinning its beacon again, as though it had never been as lifeless as it was just yesterday morning.
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The three spooked lighthouse keepers are very fine.
Times, Sunday Times
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A lighthouse loomed off the starboard bow.
Tuning the Rig: A Journey to the Arctic
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One of the most striking scenes portrays various fishing vessels buoyed to the wharf in the harbor with the lighthouse in the background.
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For more than 100 years, Wisconsin lighthouses have guided ships through our Great Lakes and inland waters.
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an onshore lighthouse
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It is a neutron star spinning just under 100 times per second and emitting regular radio pulses like a lighthouse beam.
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The ship steered towards the great lighthouse, around whose base, waves boiled white and broke in showers of foam against treacherous dark rocks.
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I will be adding additional lighthouses to the site as time and travel permit me to do so.
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Already he has his paintings adorning the walls of the Lighthouse Bar and a few homes around the country.
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By theroomvote » Blog Archive » Living Room of a Lighthouse-Shaped Home in Kawaguchi City on April 1, 2010 at 1: 05 pm
$4,95 million 8400 Grand View Drive Residence in LA
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A lighthouse marks the entrance to the harbour.
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It was a squat intimidating folly, circular for about two-thirds of its height but topped with an octagonal cupola like a pepperpot pierced with eight glazed slit windows, compass points of reflected light which gave it something of the look of a lighthouse.
She Closed Her Eyes
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Except for eight privately-owned towers, all but a handful of Maine's lighthouses now have local support groups.
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Ferragut recalled the cortege of Aphrodite which the doctor had so often described to him on summer evenings, by the light of the far-away gleam of the lighthouse.
Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel
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Holland 1 was built in 1901 and sank off the Eddystone Lighthouse on her way to the breaker's yard in 1913.
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The Lighthouse Inn reactivated its working lens in 1989, and is now known as the West Dennis Light.
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So the teacher preparation part will call for the identification of what we call lighthouse colleges, teacher colleges that are exemplary, that are clearly quality teacher colleges.
Press Briefing By Education Sec Riley And Mike Mccurry
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The lighthouse beam was quite distinct in the gathering dusk.
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Lighthouses are more helpful than churches. Benjamin Franklin
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Shaped like a fortified medieval castle with domes and a lighthouse-like tower, the case conforms glovelike to the elements of the inkstand.
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It's almost like listening to a lighthouse keeper who's conditioned to pause every five seconds, whether the foghorn's on or not.
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In 1787, before Stevenson was part of the family, Smith had become the first engineer for the Northern Lighthouses, a trust set up in 1786 to introduce the lighting of seamarks to the dangerous coasts of Scotland and the Isle of Man.
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Accommodation links offer breaks in converted castles, churches, lighthouses and wigwams.
