cynosure

• Perhaps "cynosure" is even too brainy a word for PBS audiences. —  NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias
• She was more than ever now the cynosure, the adored, of the fine young gentlemen. —  Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story
• There is a day advancing, "by seers predicted, and by poets sung," when the curse of selfishness shall be removed; when "scenes surpassing fable, and yet true," shall be realized; when all nations shall rejoice and be made blessed, under those benevolent influences, which the Messiah came to establish on earth And this is the Country, which the Disposer of events designs shall go forth as the cynosure of nations, to guide them to the light and blessedness of that day. —  A Treatise on Domestic Economy For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School
• The cynosure, however, just now, in our faculty of medicine, would seem, by general consent, to be Dr. Allen Thomson. —  Western Worthies A Gallery of Biographical and Critical Sketches of West of Scotland Celebrities
• If Catharine Trotter, as the cynosure of delicacy, at the age of nineteen, sat through Love and a Bottle without a blush, even her standard of decency was not very exacting. —  Some Diversions of a Man of Letters

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