We've had a clear loadstar, a clear first priority here along the way, and that is accountability or accounting for our people. From Wordnik.com. [Press Briefing By Berger And Sperling] Reference
The standard calculation is a loadstar percentage typically 2.5% or so multiplied by number of years of service multiplied by the average of the best 3 years salary. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Nifong Before Lacrosse] Reference
In The Match, 32-year-old Latitia Vane seeks to live as a single distinguished woman, in a house of her own, as “the patroness of arts, the encourager of genius, the loadstar in society” (1.2.687). From Wordnik.com. [Feminist Utopianism and Female Sexuality in Joanna Baillies Comedies] Reference
Desire is guide to me, and love no loadstar needs. From Wordnik.com. [Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete] Reference
The feather in the hat of Lewis was the loadstar of victory. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4] Reference
Surely as the unconscious needle feels the far-off loadstar draw. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell] Reference
"Pretty Mrs. Davies," continued to be the loadstar of his fortunes. From Wordnik.com. [Oliver Goldsmith A Biography] Reference
Obey her conscience there which feels the loadstar through the cloud. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell] Reference
In the home she is "loadstone to all hearts, and loadstar to all eyes.". From Wordnik.com. [Character] Reference
“Pretty Mrs. Davies,” continued to be the loadstar of his fortunes. From Wordnik.com. [Oliver Goldsmith]
Justus Lipsius, whom he regarded as 'the light and the loadstar of wisdom.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Book-Collectors] Reference
Consequently the bright little scissors glanced before his eyes a sort of loadstar. From Wordnik.com. [Vagabondia 1884] Reference
No landmark on the Earth; and, alas, what is that to having no loadstar in the Heaven!. From Wordnik.com. [Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History] Reference
Hard as adamant, uncompromising, ruthless, Vittoria follows ambition as the loadstar of her life. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series] Reference
Heart-broken as I am, I should desire to carry away one memory at least of her whose love was the loadstar of my existence. '. From Wordnik.com. [Lord Kilgobbin] Reference
Ernest Linwood was the loadstar of the scene, and whoever he distinguished by his attention must be conspicuous by association. From Wordnik.com. [Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author] Reference
Strength of purpose was his weak point, and, though the good of humanity was his loadstar, it did not make him quite forget self. From Wordnik.com. [Better Dead] Reference
Carlyle was the loadstar who drew men of renown from all quarters of the civilized globe to this somewhat narrow, dark little street in Chelsea. From Wordnik.com. [Chelsea The Fascination of London] Reference
Andrew was proof against this brilliant loadstar of success, though many of his mates followed it afar, just before the shares dropped below par. From Wordnik.com. [The Portion of Labor] Reference
Economic growth is the loadstar that this Government pursues; it is the criterion by which this Government is prepared-in fact claims to wish-to be judged by. From Wordnik.com. [All content] Reference
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 men's eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Phineas Finn] Reference
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 Wordnik.com. [Phineas Finn The Irish Member] Reference
Miss Keene, general credence was given to the theory that Mazatlan contained his loadstar -- the fatal partner and accomplice of his crime, the siren that allured him to his watery grave. From Wordnik.com. [The Crusade of the Excelsior] Reference
Not wholly without a loadstar in the Eternal; he had still a loadstar, as the brave all need to have: with his eye set on that, he would change his course for nothing in these confused vortices of the lower sea of Time. From Wordnik.com. [Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History] Reference
And she my loadstar while I go and come. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-04-01] Reference
Her mind returned to the loadstar. From Wordnik.com. [A Modern Chronicle — Complete] Reference
Towards the loadstar of my one desire. From Wordnik.com. [The Woodlanders] Reference
Led by the loadstar of heauenly lookes. From Wordnik.com. [The Spanish Tragedie] Reference
And she my loadstar while I go and come. From Wordnik.com. [Poems] Reference
Thou bright eye of the Mine! thou loadstar of. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry] Reference
She was his loadstar, beautiful and peerless. From Wordnik.com. [Dora Thorne] Reference
Which was his loadstar, and he spread his sails. From Wordnik.com. [Kenilworth] Reference
A hero's an excellent loadstar, -- but, bless ye. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 73, November, 1863] Reference
Who was the loadstar of your life: and though. From Wordnik.com. [Act V. Scene II] Reference
And she my loadstar while I go and come (b). From Wordnik.com. [BellaOnline - The Voice of Women] Reference
A loadstar to men’s eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Phineas Finn] Reference
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