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Example sentences for "lighthouse"

Lexicographically close words:
lightermen; lighters; lightest; lighteth; lighthearted; lighthouses; lighting; lightish; lightkeeper; lightkeepers
  1. Meanwhile, the lighthouse continued to burn, despite the most strenuous efforts made to save it.

  2. I said long ago to your father, my dear, I had a settled conviction that that lighthouse would come to a bad end.

  3. Thus perished the second lighthouse that was built on the Eddystone Rock, in December of the year 1755, and thus, once again, were those black reefs left unguarded.

  4. The lighthouse was enveloped in flames nearly to the bottom, for the outside planking, being caulked and covered with pitch, was very inflammable.

  5. Thirty-Four years passed away, and still Rudyerd's lighthouse stood firm as the rock on which it was founded.

  6. But a lighthouse was talked of long before any attempt was made to erect one.

  7. That John's life in the lighthouse was not all that he had hoped for will become apparent in the next chapter.

  8. She turned once more before they lost sight of the lighthouse keeper, and there he was, towering in the doorway, his dog at his side, smoking his corn cob pipe and gazing thoughtfully out to sea.

  9. What was the use of reading about other people's adventures when a far more thrilling one was in store for them at Lighthouse Island?

  10. For the cottage on Lighthouse Island was a popular place with Mrs. Danvers' relatives and friends, and she often had unexpected company.

  11. Her mother and father had gone on ahead to Lighthouse Island to get everything ready for the girls when they arrived.

  12. For a while Paul had kept the engine running in the hope that he might be able to keep to his course and eventually get to Lighthouse Island.

  13. But they soon found that just getting to the lighthouse was a problem.

  14. All except Billie, who stepped back a moment and gazed off through the dusk to the light in the lighthouse tower glowing its warning to the travelers over the dark highways of the sea.

  15. He spends whole days," she added, turning plaintively to Connie, "up in that old lighthouse just talking to your Uncle Tom.

  16. The lighthouse rose out of the sea like a bulrush out of a pond!

  17. I began my sojourn in the Bell Rock Lighthouse with breakfast.

  18. This lighthouse combines within itself more or less of the elements of all lighthouses.

  19. The lighthouse was a mere pillar in the sea.

  20. It is when he draws near to port that the chief dangers of his career surround him, and it is then that the lighthouse is watched for anxiously, and hailed with satisfaction.

  21. One afternoon Grain and some of his mates were sauntering towards the little lighthouse that stood at the end of their pier.

  22. Of course one of the most interesting points in the lighthouse was the lantern.

  23. The first lighthouse was of wood, and built by Henry Winstanley in 1696.

  24. The lighthouse is a magnificent structure of concrete, one hundred and sixty feet high, supporting a lantern twenty feet high, and flashing every three seconds with such intensity, as to be visible twenty miles.

  25. Halfway down among the palms the lighthouse stands, from which a gun was fired as we passed, to give notice that the English mail was coming in.

  26. In one place there is a lighthouse towering on a rock so rugged and steep, that no path can be cut in the cliffs, and we see the derrick and the basket which are used for letting people up and down, from the boats to the platform of the phare.

  27. The silver moon rises over a lighthouse on the other side of the ship.

  28. The little lighthouse on the north point, which had proved such a veritable tower of strength, was still unharmed, although the rocks about it were splintered and pulverised by shell-fire.

  29. He was obeyed, and the gun was fired hurriedly; the shell struck the rock just below the lighthouse and exploded with a terrific report, but the living rock held good, and the deadly ray shone on.

  30. Take hold of my glass and bring it to bear on the Monk"--this was the lighthouse guarding the westernmost reef of the Off Islands.

  31. With a touch of imagination the scene had become a prospect of the Cyclades, the lighthouse a column to Aphrodite or the twin brothers of Helen.

  32. Beyond that are distinctly visible various points on the North Shore, as far as Eastern Point Lighthouse in Gloucester.

  33. To read of the erection of this remarkable lighthouse reminds one of the building of Solomon's temple.

  34. The only inhabitants are fishermen, Customs-officers, and the lighthouse men.

  35. It goes by the name of La Lantern; but it was not a lighthouse at all, but the lodge of a harbour-master, who gave directions with a flag to vessels how to enter the harbour and avoid the shoals.

  36. Rose was ready for anything, and enjoyed her visit to the lighthouse on the Point very much, especially climbing up the narrow stairs and going inside the great lantern.

  37. We'll take a look at the lighthouse first, for you have not been there yet, and it is worth seeing.

  38. After they had passed the Port Atkinson lighthouse the Inlet broadened and spread out over wide flats.

  39. Before them was seen the white lighthouse of Port Atkinson, and on either side of the channel they were following rose a low, rock-bound, fir-fringed coast.

  40. Brandt, was coming slowly up the coast, heading for Cedar Point, the lighthouse on which marked the turning-point for vessels bound into the Patuxent.

  41. There's old Sharkfin," he called jubilantly, as the gleam from the lighthouse on the shoal of that name showed ahead.

  42. Passing the lighthouse and leaving it astern some miles, the four bug-eyes took a more northerly course, entering the river.

  43. In the distance she watched the flashes of a lighthouse and counted the seconds between them.

  44. The inland slope of the hills of blown sand is shown in this view, with the lighthouse of Hasborough in the distance.

  45. Then in the distance there hove in sight a squat lighthouse and the roofs of a few houses.

  46. On the left bank lay a township of sorts, and the lighthouse I had seen.

  47. The National Bureau of Education, the Lighthouse Board and the State of Massachusetts obtained "Grand Diplomas of Honor" for documents.

  48. This part of the coast is well lighted, and it was always a matter of felicitation at night when, every eighty miles or so, the guiding rays of a lighthouse shone out in the soft gloom of the starlight night.

  49. The mast was straight; the waves were regular; the lighthouse was upright; but the blot had spread.

  50. The entire bay quivered; the lighthouse wobbled; and she had the illusion that the mast of Mr. Connor's little yacht was bending like a wax candle in the sun.

  51. The beam from the lighthouse strode rapidly across the water.

  52. As the Lamp-post, Bubbles, and the little servant came panting up, he sent them along the edge of the cliff, in the lighthouse direction.

  53. Yet in the little rock-bound cove the lighthouse boats and the Arrow were secure and safe.

  54. The lighthouse keeper's name was John Bowling, and he was a brother-in-law of Captain Anderson of the Red Key Life Saving Station.

  55. You know that's where the sponging fleet work at this time, so, in case of storm, they can shelter under the lighthouse key.

  56. Sometimes we take trips over to Key West for supplies, and twice a year the steamer belonging to Uncle Sam's lighthouse department brings us the regulation stores of oil, coal, etc.

  57. To increase the effect of a lighthouse painted upon the scenery, a strip of suitable length with one light at each end is provided.

  58. When the lighthouse was built on the Chickens Rock, the men who were to live in it were transferred from two old lighthouses on the little islet called the Calf of Man, but their families were left in the disused lighthouses.

  59. But I knew at the time that when the next day but one should bring the lighthouse steamer I shouldn't be any more fit to go ashore, to stay, than a jellyfish.

  60. Soon after the fog cleared away, and a gleam of hope arose when the bright clear light of the Bishop Rock Lighthouse shone out.

  61. Another work of great labour and difficulty was the erection of a lighthouse on the Skerryvore Rocks, which lie twelve miles W.

  62. That the building erected by Rudyerd was, on the whole, well adapted for the purpose for which it was intended, was proved by the fact that it served as a lighthouse for ships navigating the English Channel for nearly fifty years.

  63. The initial cast-iron lighthouse was designed by Mr. Gordon in 1840, and was cast and put together within three months from the date of the contract.

  64. It may here be remarked that in many works the credit of designing and building this lighthouse has been given to Robert Stevenson, the resident engineer.


  65. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lighthouse" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.