gas-globe

An electric-light, disguised within a mid-Victorian gas-globe, occupies a conspicuous position on one wall.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, April 11, 1917 Various

By and by the moon arose far across the water, looking like an old-fashioned gas-globe, and set sail on her brief voyage low down in the sky from south-east to south-west.

The Huntress Hulbert Footner 1911

The reason he had worn his hair low was explained: he wanted to hide from us the fact that it was he who had smashed the gas-globe in Mr. Glenthorpe's room, and had cut his head by the accident.

The Shrieking Pit 1907

He became more agitated, and climbed the stoop, unlocked his way into the house, went up the dim, soft, red-cushioned stairs, past the milky gas-globe in the narrow hall, and knocked at her door.

The Nine-Tenths James Oppenheim 1907

Superintendent Galloway picked up one by the foot of the bed, and I picked up the other under the broken gas-globe.

The Shrieking Pit 1907

When Edwin crept into the bedroom he was so perturbed by continually growing excitement that he saw nothing clearly except the central group of objects: that is to say, a narrow bed, whose burden was screened from him by its foot, a table, an empty chair, the gas-globe luminous against

Clayhanger Arnold Bennett 1899

She lowered the heavy curtains, shaded the gas-globe, and, placing a bunch of sweet violets on his pillow, sat down at his side.

Macaria 1872

She lowered the heavy curtains, shaded the gas-globe, and, placing a bunch of sweet violets on his pillow, sat down at his side.

Macaria; or, Altars of Sacrifice Augusta Jane 1864

The pieces you picked up alongside the bed are tallow; mine, picked up from underneath the gas-globe, are wax. "

The Shrieking Pit 1907

"If there were only one more," muttered Cope, looking at the pile of sheets under the gas-globe, "I should probably learn that Chaucer derived from

Bertram Cope's Year Henry Blake Fuller 1893