loadstar

How to use loadstar in a sentence

• But to a man of Marmont's character one word of warning was enough; his head governed his heart; glory was his loadstar.

  Napoleon's Marshals | R. P. Dunn-Pattison

• When man seized the loadstone of science, 20 the loadstar of superstition vanished in the clouds.

  Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources | James Wood

• Justice and fairness I will endeavor, under whatever complexities, to make my loadstar.

  History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. XIII. (of XXI.) | Thomas Carlyle

• But without partialitie (for in this earand I have set my compas to the loadstar of reason), we pronunce it better.

  Of the Orthographie and Congruitie of the Britan Tongue | Alexander Hume

• Consequently the bright little scissors glanced before his eyes a sort of loadstar.

  Vagabondia | Frances Hodgson Burnett