gas-lamp

• “Among its virtues is a feel for the gas-lamp Victorian world.”

  The Huffington Post: Rabbi David Wolpe: The Game's Afoot Anew

• “Then the door opened wide, and Diego grinned whitely at him in the light from a gas-lamp, gesturing him inside with a flamboyant fling of his arms.”

  Fictionaut: red dust

• “In 1887, he acquired the factory Würth & Co. for chemical-pharmaceutical products in Atzgersdorf and moved the entire chain of production there, creating an affluent gas-lamp industry by improving his patent in the early 1890s.”

  Trafficking Materials and Gendered Experimental Practices: Radium Research in Early 20th Century Vienna

• “He lay, illuminated by a narrow shaft of pale yellow light flung out by the gas-lamp at the top of the passage steps, in a slowly widening pool of dark blood that contrasted oddly with the carrotty hue of his hair and whiskers.”

  Excerpt: The Meaning of Night by Michael Cox

• “On the shimmering gas-lamp; it turns to tears that fall on her face”

  Archive 2007-08-01

• ““Well, I declare to goodness it does illuminate the old place!” says Gus; but the fact was, that there was a gas-lamp opposite our window, and I believe that was the reason why we could see pretty well.”

  The Great Hoggarty Diamond

• “As we passed a gas-lamp, I saw Lady Fanny laughing as usual, and turning her great arch sparkling black eyes at Lord Tiptoff.”

  The Great Hoggarty Diamond

• “You cannot see these things as I can see them, nor can you figure — unless you know the pictures that great artist Hyde has left the world — the effect of the great hoarding by which we passed, lit below by a gas-lamp and towering up to a sudden sharp black edge against the pallid sky.”

  In the Days of the Comet

• “Two-Mile Stone, and thence I had to walk over the hill — I remember very vividly a little man with a shrill voice who was preaching under a gas-lamp against a hoarding to a thin crowd of”

  In the Days of the Comet

• “You cannot see, as I can see, the dark empty way between the mean houses, the dark empty way lit by a bleary gas-lamp at the corner, you cannot feel the hard checkered pavement under your boots, you cannot mark the dimly lit windows here and there, and the shadows upon the ugly and often patched and crooked blinds of the people cooped within.”

  In the Days of the Comet

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