loadstars

But I think those are the two touchstones, the loadstars that ought to guide decisions as we go along on settlements.

Press Conference Of President And Pm Netanyahu ITY National Archives 1996

"Such is the world, understand it, despise it, love it; cheerfully hold on thy way through it, with thy eye on highest loadstars."

The Right Knock A Story Helen Van-Anderson

But unhappily by this means he held fast the false no less firmly than the true; he dwelt far too long on one idea, particularly when it was of an aphoristic shape; and thus he left his natural mode of thought and action, and frequently took foreign lights for his loadstars.

Chapter I. Book V 1917

Melt down loadstars for magnets, use women for whetstones,

The Heptalogia Algernon Charles Swinburne 1873

Sybil's features were exquisite, yet you looked only at her eyes -- they were the loadstars of her countenance.

Rookwood William Harrison Ainsworth 1843

To whoever does still know of loadstars, the proceedings, which expand themselves daily, of these sublime philanthropic associations, and "universal sluggard-and-scoundrel protection-societies," are a perpetual affliction.

Latter-Day Pamphlets Thomas Carlyle 1838

The State aims, once more, with a true aim; and has loadstars in the eternal Heaven.

Latter-Day Pamphlets Thomas Carlyle 1838

Him no Tenpound Constituency chose, nor did any Reforming Premier: in the deep-sunk British Nation, overwhelmed in foggy stupor, with the loadstars all gone out for it, there was no whisper of a notion that it could be desirable to choose him, -- except to come and dine with you, and in the interim to gauge.

Latter-Day Pamphlets Thomas Carlyle 1838

She was fair, not pale; her eyes were loadstars, her dimples marks of Cupid's finger, &c.Mr. Gibson finished reading it; and began to think about it in his own mind.

Wives and Daughters Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837

'Come, don't go on trying to match her eyes as if you were a draper, and they a bit of ribbon; say at once "her eyes are loadstars," and have done with it!

Wives and Daughters Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837