loadstar
Americannoun
noun
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Now that the landmark ruling is gone, the movement is struggling to find a new loadstar.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 21, 2023
Her teeth, which she but seldom showed, were very even and very white, and there rested on her chin the dearest dimple that ever acted as a loadstar to mens's eyes.
From Phineas Finn The Irish Member by Anthony Trollope
Led by the loadstar of heauenly lookes, Wends poore oppressed Balthazar, As ore the mountains walkes the wanderer Incertain to effect his pilgrimage.
From The Spanish Tragedie by Thomas Kyd
In the home, she is the "loadstone to all hearts, and loadstar to all eyes."
From The Little Gleaner, Vol. X. A Monthly Magazine for the Young by Various
Consequently the bright little scissors glanced before his eyes a sort of loadstar.
From Vagabondia 1884 by Frances Hodgson Burnett
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