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Gas lamp   /gæs læmp/   Listen
Gas lamp

noun
1.
A lamp that burns illuminating gas.





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"Gas lamp" Quotes from Famous Books



... had retrieved the note, and, followed eagerly by the man, carried it to the light of a gas lamp. The envelope was not illuminating, the sealing-wax was stamped with no crest or initials, the handwriting was ...
— The White Mice • Richard Harding Davis
... middle door, carrying a light. He lights the hanging lamp (it is a gas lamp) over the corner table. While he is thus employed, LOTH also enters by the ...
— The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann - Volume I • Gerhart Hauptmann
... A gas lamp was flaring in the hall when the porter admitted us. At a desk set under the stairway a pale-faced clerk awaited us with staring insolence that shifted to annoyance when Dick asked him if we might go to Bessie Lowe's room. ...
— The Best Short Stories of 1917 - and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various


Words linked to "Gas lamp" :   lamp


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