gas-lit

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A suggestion of gas-lit mission-halls, wet umbrellas, and discreet applause seemed to accompany him everywhere.

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  • And then we shall partake of another pint or three in the Bow Bells, until the landlord ejects us out onto the gas-lit street to stumble home. —  diamond geezer
  • You made me feel like my perceptions of being continuously gas-lit by the RNC and my own government were well founded. —  WordPress.com News
  • Down the long gas-lit perspective of —  Eve's Ransom
  • It was all that she could do not to cry out and run down to the gas-lit passage. —  The Captives
  • As I entered the gas-lit corridor I saw a figure there at the door. —  To-morrow?
 

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