Pharus

The "Pharus Foetidus Viscera," or "Olfactory Lighthouse," is a cylindrical pedestal topped by a bell jar and surrounded by metal octopus arms.

Pataphysics and Fictive Art Heather McDougal 2008

Sites sampled in the past included the following plentiful or notable species: at 250 m, Garcinia intermedia, Pouteria sp. and Schizolobium parahybum; at 450 m, Ardisia tigrina, Pharus cornutus (rare), Smilax subpubescens and Ternstroemia tepezapote; at 600 m, Lobelia and Welfia sp. and Satyria warscewiczii.

Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve, Honduras 2008

The "Pharus Foetidus Viscera," or "Olfactory Lighthouse," is a cylindrical pedestal topped by a bell jar and surrounded by metal octopus arms.

Archive 2008-02-01 Heather McDougal 2008

"Profumo has lost a lot of credibility," said Davide Pasquali, chairman of Swiss fund Pharus SICAV, which sold all its UniCredit stock in 2007.

Once-Defiant UniCredit CEO Profumo Cites 'Misjudgment' 2008

The Tankervellia (or Pharus?) has sepala pet. conformia extus alba, intus fusco-brunnea, labellum cucullatum, breve, calcaratum; intus inconspicue bilamellatum; extus albidum margines versus exceptis qua uti intus fusco - sanguineum, fauce saturatiore.

Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith

Lo! while Pharus utters weak vaunts the hurled javelin strikes on his shouting mouth.

The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil

In these dark years you are like the lanterns of Pharus to your people.

In the Days of Poor Richard Irving Bacheller 1904

If I had not caught sight of the Colossus of Rhodes and the Pharus tower, I assure you I should never have made out the Earth at all.

Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 of Samosata Lucian 1895

He was the builder of that incomparable work, whether for size or beauty, the Pharus tower.

Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02 of Samosata Lucian 1894

‘Pharos,’ or ‘Pharus,’ the name given to light-houses, is derived from the celebrated one built on the island of Pharos, at the entrance of the port of Alexandria.

The Metamorphoses of Ovid Literally Translated into English Prose, with Copious Notes and Explanations 43 BC-18? Ovid 1847