Sentence examples for by lighthouse from inspiring English sources

The school is run by Lighthouse International, which provides services for people with vision impairment.

The small body was found by Lighthouse nurse and local resident Marit while walking her dogs on Kagia beach next to Skala Sikamineas.

An Taisce dismisses the government's claim that birds such as these are accustomed to helicopter intrusion by lighthouse staff on the island.

For almost 90 years afterwards, the light, which rotates almost soundlessly in the same vat of mercury that it was built with, was tended by lighthouse keepers who kept the tradition of devout public service alive.

At the northern end of the island, by Lighthouse Park, Abramson found ruts in the grass left by urban explorers who had made a habit of off-roading with their Jeeps.

I was particularly affected by "Lighthouse," set during the Depression on a remote island off the coast of Maine, where young Frances and Peter's father works as a lighthouse keeper.

People are fascinated by lighthouses for many reasons, says Henry Stephenson, the project director of the National Lighthouse Center and Museum on Staten Island.

"Nothing must be allowed to silence our voices … We must call out to one another," wrote Janet Frame, a shy New Zealand writer also fascinated by lighthouses, "across seas and deserts flashing words instead of mirrors and lights".

They described, for example, how Lincoln directed Henry to find a substitute for the whale oil used by lighthouses that was no longer available because of the South's attacks on the country's whaling fleet.

Beyond the dunes, this area was made for lazy summer days punctuated by lighthouses, farmers' markets, tree-lined bike paths, and water sports galore.

Other novels on the short list of six finalists included "The Garden of Evening Mists," by Tan Twang Eng; "Swimming Home," by Deborah Levy; "The Lighthouse," by Alison Moore; "Umbrella," by Will Self; and "Narcopolis," by Jeet Thayil.