lightning-conductor

They much improve the appearance of a forest as seen from the coast; for they vary the otherwise monotonous tree-tops with feathery crowns of leaves rising clear above them, and each terminated by an erect leafy spike like a lightning-conductor.

The Malay Archipelago 2004

‘A swallow is perched on the lightning-conductor,’ said Susan.

The Waves 2003

In England, during our Revolutionary war, an active scientific discussion was carried on as to whether the upper end of a lightning-conductor should be sharp or blunt.

Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science Various

Academy of Sciences of Paris, on being consulted by the Minister of War in 1823, expressed the opinion that a lightning-conductor protects a circular space of which the radius is equal to the height of the rod.

Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science Various

The monument terminates in a _knob_ being 0m .460 in diameter and to which ever since 1835 a lightning-conductor has been adapted; one may climb there but with the aid of iron bars to which you must cling with hands and feet.

Historical Sketch of the Cathedral of Strasburg Anonymous

There is, for instance, a model of the first lightning-conductor.

From a Terrace in Prague Lieut.-Col. B. Granville Baker

I had fancied when strapping my portmanteau that I should find my friend Oscar installed in one of those pretty, little, smart-looking houses, with green shutters and gilt lightning-conductor, dear to the countrified Parisian, and here I found myself amid an ideal blending of time-worn stones hidden in flowers, ancient gables, and fanciful ironwork reddened by rust.

The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

He said, 'Very well, Bradshaw, I will hear what you have to say,' and then sprang, like the cat in the poem, 'all claws', upon an unfortunate individual who had scored twenty-nine, and who had been congratulating himself that Bradshaw's failings would act as a sort of lightning-conductor to him.

Tales of St. Austin's 1928

Again, mistletoe acts as a master-key as well as a lightning-conductor; for it is said to open all locks.

Chapter 65. Balder and the Mistletoe 1922

Being itself a product of lightning it naturally serves, on homoeopathic principles, as a protection against lightning, in fact as a kind of lightning-conductor.

Chapter 65. Balder and the Mistletoe 1922