gas-lighted

Sipping a cider in the Bennett Tavern and Inn that at one time served travelers and canal workers, I can almost hear the footsteps of weary canal workers in their rooms above the pub can feel the spirit of gas-lighted diners and drinkers celebrating the prosperity that the canal brought them.

A TIME TRIP TO THE ERIE CANAL 2007

Steampunk stories, which started appearing with regularity in the 1980s, eschew clean and orderly visions of the future in favor of gas-lighted streets, steam engines belching toxic smoke, and dastardly villains inventing strange technologies.

Posthuman Blues Mac 2007

The pretty women, by this time in the short, gay foulards and in the dressy hats in which they will appear later at the Casino ball, are tripping up and down in the gas-lighted grounds.

Manners and Social Usages Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood

Hot, gas-lighted theatric and operatic performances, beginning at eight, and ending at midnight; hot, crowded parties and balls; dancing with dresses tightly laced over the laboring lungs, -- these are almost the whole story.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866 Various

Then the pictures for a while grew blurred and confused, till presently they shewed the gas-lighted streets of London ....

Drolls From Shadowland

Boston, Washington, and other cities where the dining-rooms are ordinarily larger than those in a New York house, the danger of crowding, of heat, and want of ventilation, is more easily avoided; but in a gas-lighted, furnace-heated room in New York the sufferings of the diners-out are sometimes terrible.

Manners and Social Usages Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood

There were several of the young people present one evening; and Miss Prue, enjoying the moonlighted veranda and the music from the gas-lighted drawing-room, as well as anybody, watched the little by-plays with keen, interested eyes.

Sara, a Princess Fannie E. Newberry

Fanny Brandeis was to see much that was beautiful and rare in her full lifetime, but she never again, perhaps, got quite the thrill that those ugly, dim, red-carpeted, gas-lighted hotel corridors gave her, or the grim bedroom, with its walnut furniture and its Nottingham curtains.

Fanny Herself Edna Ferber 1926

The December kitchen was gas-lighted long before she got there, and

Martie, the Unconquered Kathleen Thompson Norris 1923

Fanny Brandeis was to see much that was beautiful and rare in her full lifetime, but she never again, perhaps, got quite the thrill that those ugly, dim, red-carpeted, gas-lighted hotel corridors gave her, or the grim bedroom, with its walnut furniture and its Nottingham curtains.

Fanny Herself 1917