Pole-star

“It would scarce avail us among these mountains,” answered the youth; “for though that wonderful needle may keep its point to the northern Pole-star, when it is on a flat surface like the sea, it is not to be thought it would do so when the huge mountains arise like walls, betwixt the steel and the object of its sympathy.”

Anne of Geierstein 2008

Two peaks below the Pole-star, sharply defined against the sky, were the only signs of any other world than the world of fire and mystery around.

The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004

Coldly the Pole-star shivered above the frozen summit, and a blue moon, nearly full, withdrew her faded light into infinite space.

The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004

The vernacular translators think it is the region of the Pole-star that is intended.

The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

"How can that be?" inquired Browne, "the Pole-star is visible from here, or, at any rate, we saw it on the second or third night we were at sea in the boat."

The Island Home Richard Archer

Did you now look up into the midnight sky through the shaft in the Great Pyramid you would not see the Pole-star; new brilliant space-worlds would shine down on you.

The Life Radiant Lilian Whiting

We sail in chartless seas, but behold! the Pole-star is above us -- TUPPER.

Lays from the West M. A. Nicholl

I have been told by experts that the astronomers who built those marvels of antiquity, the Pyramids of the Nile, pierced a slanting shaft through the larger pyramid which pointed direct to the Pole-star, and that in those days had you gazed heavenward through the shaft into the Eastern night, the

The Life Radiant Lilian Whiting

If one draw a line from through the back wall of the Dipper, that is, from the back bottom star, through the one next the handle, and continue it upward for twice the total length of the Dipper, it will reach Vega, the brightest star in the northern part of the sky, and believed to have been at one time the Pole-star -- and likely to be again.

Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts Girl Scouts of the United States of America 1918

Pole-star or Polaris, is not a very bright one, and it would be hard to identify but for the help of the Pointers of the Big Dipper.

Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts Girl Scouts of the United States of America 1918