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Example sentences for "gaslight"

Lexicographically close words:
gashing; gashly; gasholder; gasket; gaskets; gaslights; gaslit; gasolene; gasoline; gasometer
  1. Fancifully the two silhouettes went through their parts within the lighted square as cast by the gaslight upon the lawn.

  2. A yellow gaslight burned dimly in the harness shop when the man in the worn top hat entered.

  3. The gaslight which I had left lit for Jonathan, but turned down, came only like a tiny red spark through the fog, which had evidently grown thicker and poured into the room.

  4. And when the gaslight sprang up under Quincey's match, we saw nothing but a faint vapour.

  5. We were shown into a darkened room, where there was a dim gaslight burning, and a fire glimmering, and here and there a streak of sunshine struggling through the drawn curtains.

  6. Its gilt lettering glittered, and the gaslight revealed to me the reissued poems of Swinburne.

  7. Here at last was the singer for whose songs my ears were shells which still murmured with such lines as I had first furtively read by the gaslight of the Brighton theater.

  8. The boy lifted his head with a quick, reproachful anger, and in the gaslight his cheeks were flushed, his eyes full of tears.

  9. And we do not know how precious our gaslight is till we have lost it.

  10. Wealth can command its bath here as well as its gaslight and its supplies of ice, but wealth only.

  11. The engineer apprentices would have nothing to say to us, nor indeed to the bagman; but talked low and sparingly to one another, or raked us in the gaslight with a gleam of spectacles.

  12. In the flickering gaslight the Indian saw this, and rightly guessed that there the money was.

  13. The two professors exchanged notes, and then stepped over to a flaring gaslight where they could read them.

  14. Gaslight and Gaiety, beam for a while; Pleasure and Paraffin, lend us a smile.

  15. For I have not got the gaslight on my gloomy second-floor,) Comes an echo, "Nelly Moore!

  16. Where house-gas is available the incandescent gaslight is however much to be preferred.

  17. For example, the printing frames should be filled as far away from any window as possible, and the prints examined from time to time either by gaslight or as feeble daylight as possible.

  18. Personally, I favour ordinary gaslight passed through a No.

  19. The green and blue were such convertible colours in the gaslight that no one took any notice.

  20. But this was not an outdoor party, the night was too cool to make it even partially such; and to walk the whole evening in the moonlight is one thing, and in the gaslight quite another.

  21. He drew it out from under the table and hoisted it up under the gaslight to examine it; and then he burst into a loud and cheerful laugh.

  22. The hours passed on unreckoned until pencils of cold blue daylight began to stream in through the chinks of the shutters and contend with the warm gaslight within.

  23. By gaslight it was, as I have said, dingy enough, but by daylight it was shabby in the extreme.

  24. Only a rhomb of dim gaslight on my ceiling remained.

  25. The way I bring it out is that Homeward Bound is the best, with Gaslight second.

  26. In 1810 the Gaslight and Coke Company got their Charter, and thenceforward the use of gas sprang into life, and although it may be on its last legs, as an illuminating power, there is plenty of vitality in it yet.

  27. The Gaslight and Coke Company had offices in Pall Mall, and in the street, in front, lamps for public use were once more exhibited, this time for the benefit of the West-end loungers.

  28. The gaslight flashed on Irene's hair as it hung over the side of the sofa; he stooped, and pressed his lips to the floating curls, and went down to the library, smiling grimly at his own folly.

  29. The carriage-top was thrown back, and by the neighbouring gaslight he saw Irene's white face turned toward him, then the horses sprang off.

  30. I have expressed my opinion so frequently as to the permanent human values of Miss Hurst's work that I can only remark here that "Gaslight Sonatas" is one of the very few permanent short story books.

  31. He crossed the great echoing cathedral yard, and passed slowly from gaslight to gaslight, too weary now to talk.

  32. The plates were also tested using gaslight instead of daylight.

  33. It will be noted that the plates most sensitive to gaslight are by no means necessarily the most sensitive to daylight; in several instances, in fact, the reverse seems to be true.

  34. Gaslight comes quite as natural to them as any other light; and I have more than a suspicion that, in the minds of the two lords, the early public-house at the corner has superseded the sun.

  35. No Englishman knows what gaslight is, until he sees the Rue de Rivoli and the Palais Royal after dark.

  36. The Major was still looking at him quietly, but with protruding eyes, when the front door was flung open, releasing a flood of gaslight on the face of the fading mist; and another figure in pyjamas sprang or tumbled out into the garden.

  37. The interior exhibited a paradox often to be marked in such morning hours: that the rooms seemed brighter than the sky outside; even after the Major had turned out the one gaslight in the front hall.


  38. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gaslight" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.