Sentence examples for light a beacon from inspiring English sources

"[He is] a light, a beacon, the sun.

Golding's boys light a beacon as a signal to rescuers, while their successors this year set fires merely to indulge the destructive delight of arson.

The National Trust also plans to light a beacon on top of Scafell Pike on Armistice Day, just as Lord Leconfield did on Peace Day on 19 July 1919.

As much as the Eiffel Tower, and for well more than half a millennium longer, the Cathedral of Notre Dame has stood stolid and graceful at the very heart of the City of Light, a beacon for people of every country, drawn for centuries to its magnificent Gothic portico.

They were in Mountain Ash to light a beacon on Sunday evening.

Plans to light a beacon for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee on Painswick Beacon in Gloucestershire are under threat.

Another issue was the store's bright lights, a "beacon in the night," as Mr. Jennings put it.

George W Bush and Tony Blair were intoxicated by self-belief, with fantastical visions of "lighting a beacon of democracy" as they doused the region in petrol and set it alight.

In Tonga it was Boy Scouts and Girl Guides who lit the torches while in Canberra the honour went to Julia Gillard, the Australian prime minister, who lit a beacon at Parliament house.

Sir Paul McCartney was the final act on a night that ended when the Queen lit a beacon to mark her 60-year reign.

But one small supermarket stayed open, its bright lights a beacon in the night, doing a steady trade with the police and soldiers who had nowhere else to go.