Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A permanent apparatus for the burning of illuminating gas, including a burner or set of burners and the tube connecting it with a gas-pipe, a key or keys for turning the flow of gas off or on, etc. See
gasbracket and gaselier.
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Examples
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From the gas-fixture hung a tangled bunch of well-scribbled dance programs.
CHAPTER I 2010
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He carried them to his room, rubbed his thumb in the lampblack on the gas-fixture, and smeared the magazine covers, then cut the leaves and ruffled the margins to make the magazines look dog-eared with much reading; not because he wanted to appear to have read them, but because he felt that Istra would not permit him to buy things just for her.
Our Mr. Wrenn 2004
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The sight of the dingy ceiling and the gas-fixture depending therefrom dispelled the illusion.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 18, April, 1859 Various
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He carried them to his room, rubbed his thumb in the lampblack on the gas-fixture, and smeared the magazine covers, then cut the leaves and ruffled the margins to make the magazines look dog-eared with much reading; not because he wanted to appear to have read them, but because he felt that Istra would not permit him to buy things just for her.
Our Mr. Wrenn, the Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man Sinclair Lewis 1918
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He went to the old-fashioned gas-fixture, turned out the light, and muttered his way morosely into bed.
The Turmoil 1915
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From the gas-fixture hung a tangled bunch of well-scribbled dance programs.
Chapter 1 1913
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He carried them to his room, rubbed his thumb in the lampblack on the gas-fixture, and smeared the magazine covers, then cut the leaves and ruffled the margins to make the magazines look dog-eared with much reading; not because he wanted to appear to have read them, but because he felt that Istra would not permit him to buy things just for her.
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There was no gas-fixture in this small chamber; but they found Laura's oil-lamp burning brightly upon her writing-table
The Flirt 1912
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There was no gas-fixture in this small chamber; but they found Laura's oil-lamp burning brightly upon her writing-table.
The Flirt Booth Tarkington 1907
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He glanced irresolutely toward the gas-fixture, and from thence to where his evening clothes lay spread out on the couch.
Behind the line A story of college life and football Ralph Henry Barbour 1907
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