waymark
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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We have just passed "the Watchman," an island which serves as a waymark for the entrance to that station.
From With the Harmony to Labrador Notes of a Visit to the Moravian Mission Stations on the North-East Coast of Labrador by Benjamin La Trobe
This little place is situated amid romantic sylvan and river scenery, while its church on the top of a hill serves as a waymark.
From Nooks and Corners of Cornwall by C. A. Dawson Scott
Why did her thoughts cling so to distant Sunnybank, or her heart die within her as waymark after waymark told her Collingwood was near?
From Darkness and Daylight by Mary Jane Holmes
She turned her face towards the quarter from which she had come and tried to recognize some tree or waymark she could remember having passed.
From Hills of the Shatemuc by Susan Warner
He was still only a waymark to the kingdom of folly, but she had made a beginning, and she would persevere.
From The Lions of the Lord A Tale of the Old West by Harry Leon Wilson
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