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Letter "G" » gas lamp
«A child of one can be taught not to do certain things such as touch a hot stove, turn on the gas, pull lamps off their tables by their cords, or wake mommy before noon»
«London was beginning to illuminate herself against the night. Electric lights sizzled and jagged in the main thoroughfares, gas-lamps in the side streets glimmered a canary gold or green.»
Author: E. M. Forster
(Essayist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
canary, electric light, gas lamp, glimmer, glimmering, Glimmers, green light, illuminate, in the main, jagged, lamps, sizzle, sizzled, sizzles, thoroughfare, thoroughfares
«When Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electric light, he had to do it by gas lamp or candle. I'm sure it made the work seem that much more urgent.»
Author: George Carlin
(Actor, Author, Comedian)
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An electric, candle, Edison, electric, electric light, gas, gas lamp, lamp, Late Night, that much, Thomas, Thomas Edison, urgent, worked
«What a comfort a dull but kindly person is, to be sure, at times! A ground-glass shade over a gas-lamp does not bring more solace to our dazzled eyes than such a one to our minds.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
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dazzled, gas lamp, glass eye, ground glass
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