"Lighthouse" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... to bed!" grinned Oliver. "I'll build up another fire, to serve as a sort of lighthouse for the boys and sit ...
— The Boy Scout Camera Club - The Confession of a Photograph • G. Harvey Ralphson
... now four o'clock; the storm was raging with unabated violence, and it was still two hours to daybreak. About a mile from Longstone, the island on which the vessel struck, lies Brownsman, the outermost of the Farne Islands, on which stands the lighthouse. At this time the keeper of the lighthouse was a man of the name of William Darling. He was an elderly, almost an old man, and the only other inmates of the lighthouse were his wife and daughter Grace, a girl of ...
— The True Story Book • Andrew Lang
... coast of Africa. Don't you see the lighthouse on Cape Bon? If it wasn't for Gibraltar being in the way, I could show you the harbor lights of Bizerta, and the terraces of Algiers shining like a cafe ...
— Soldiers of Fortune • Richard Harding Davis
... confinement there make one marvel afresh at what man has inflicted and endured. In a country in which a policy of extermination was to be put into practise this horrible tower was an obvious resource. From the battlements at the top, which is surmounted by an old disused lighthouse, you see the little compact rectangular town, which looks hardly bigger than a garden-patch, mapped out beneath you, and follow the plain configuration of its defenses. You take possession of it, and you feel that you will ...
— Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 3 • Various
... told you. Because my conscience is so constituted that it puts nothing above itself. I feel it upon me as the headland can feel the lighthouse which is upon it. All life is an abyss, and conscience ...
— The History of a Crime - The Testimony of an Eye-Witness • Victor Hugo
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