gas-bracket

He mounted the stairs -- there was not a nail in his boots which did not know each shred of fraying timber in them -- thridded an unerring way through the outspread lumber on the floor to the stand at which he commonly worked, set the gas-bracket blazing there, and began to stack type as if for dear life, but without a copy.

Despair's Last Journey David Christie Murray

Without waiting for a reply he entered the room whence she had emerged and, striking another match, applied it to a gas-bracket.

The Grell Mystery Frank Froest

She was standing beneath the gas-bracket, one hand raised to the handle.

"Contemptible", by "Casualty"

Under the gas-bracket by the door hung the first photograph in which he appeared, the cricket team of four years ago.

The Head of Kay's 1928

A long flexible gas-bracket depends from the ceiling above it.

The Atlantic Book of Modern Plays Eugene O'Neill 1920

Another many-jointed gas-bracket projects from the middle of the high mantelpiece, its flame turned down towards the stove.

The Atlantic Book of Modern Plays Eugene O'Neill 1920

And he remembered with reminiscently aching muscles the comfort of such a "single bed" as is peculiar (one hopes) to top hall backs, and with a qualm what it was to cook a surreptitious meal on a metal heater clamped to the gas-bracket

The Fortune Hunter Louis Joseph Vance 1906

He rasped a match over its surface and applied the flame to a small gas-bracket fixed to the wall.

The Fortune Hunter Louis Joseph Vance 1906

There was bright-patterned muslin round the gas-bracket in the middle of the room, round the mirror over the mantel, stuff with ball-fringe along the mantel and casing in the fireplace, -- I first saw ball-fringe here -- and even the lamp on the little bureau wore a shade like a large muslin hat.

Tono Bungay 1906

He stood under the gas-bracket, and she could see his face distinctly.

A Prince of Sinners 1906