north star

• “The north star guides the mariner safely to his desired haven even though he never reaches the star itself.”

  Max Heindel's Letters to Students by The Rosicrucian Fellowship

• “At this crisis in her despair Roger's note was handed to her, and it was like the north star suddenly shining out on one who is benighted and lost.”

  Without a Home

• “The only blessing the light brought was that Pea Eye caught a glimpse of the north star as the clouds were breaking.”

  Lonesome Dove

• “Now, each night as the clouds part, the north star looks down upon the deck; then, the Southern Cross will be visible in the sky, words quickly written, but half a globe apart.”

  The Life of the Fields

• “Yet it is not the volume, not the bulk only; cannot you see the white sails swelling, and the proud vessel rising to the Pacific billows, the north star sinking, and the advent of the Southern Cross; the thousand miles of ocean without land around, the voyage through space made visible as sea, the far, far south, the transit around a world?”

  The Life of the Fields

• “This cameo was a north star to German manhood, but caused many chaste expressions of abhorrence from Aunt Lisbeth, Gottlieb's unmarried sister, who seemed instinctively to take part with the Dragon.”

  Complete Short Works of George Meredith

• “Ackroyd says we can't risk coming in closer than a. mile from the rig, so if you can swim that distance you'll navigate by the north star and listen for the call of the sea swallow - I'll play you the tape in a minute.”

  The Mandarin Cypher

• “O thou with the north star in the tip of thy tail!”

  The Prince of India — Volume 01

• “And only those will heed who keep the compass needles of their souls true to the north star of a great ambition.”

  The Little Colonel's Christmas Vacation

• “A day or two later the north star disappeared behind them and the constellation of the Cross came into view above the southern horizon.”

  Mark Twain, a Biography. Complete

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