Use "electric light" in a sentence

1. As far as external stimuli are concerned I remember little other than a dull ache of occasional electric light and the return of Smiler’s simple, direct and low-level violence

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2. Dumbfounded, he stared at the object that grinned its rictus smile from a plinth under the only electric light in the corridor

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3. The young man opened the door with his usual flourish, a showman to the end, and was greeted by a storm of flashing electric light, and once his eyes had adjusted, to a positive vision in pink

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4. the end, and was greeted by a storm of flashing electric light, and

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5. “Yes, with digging machines, electric lights and stuff

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6. Dark, dirty, lit by dull electric lights

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7. The electric lights may go off at the same time

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8. The electrician pointed to the chandelier and said, “Electric lights, no?”

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9. Since he lived from 1874 until 1932, the notions of electric light and heavier-than-air-flight, or even space-flight were not too far out of the range of human imagination, bearing in mind the fair probability that he could have read the Jules Verne novel, ‘From the Earth to the Moon,’ which was published in 1865, or ‘20,000 Leagues Under the Sea,’ by the same author

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10. No one owns the life which flows in him any more than the electric light bulb owns the current which gives it light

11. The Electric Light

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12. electric lights and the noises of the street traffic, one would not

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13. On chilly nights he often sat in the barn he helped me to build, smoking and reading under the electric lights, which Marjie would never have done

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14. Lorna undressed and was sitting up in bed admiring her ring which winked and sparkled in the electric light, when there was a soft knock on her bedroom door

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15. As steam foghorns and electric lights replaced oil lamps and fog bells, male and female lighthouse keepers passed into history

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16. The Fresnel lens at Two Harbors Light was replaced by rotating electric lights in 1970

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17. A lone food vendor under a bare electric light bulb caught my attention and I bought a coconut from him

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18. But to my surprise, hovering over my magic book, that always perched on the bedside table in the shade of a kerosene lamp, because as I have already mentioned, that wonder of Thomas Alva Edison which is electric light shone by its absence in those dark places, were the book guardians, Petrarco, Cirila and Drefno: those beings from the magic world that accompanied me in my odyssey in Saint Andre, when the ring curse was hanging over my head

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19. The light was no brighter than an ordinary electric light but the darkness had filled Hank's vision for so long that his eyes were extremely sensitive to it

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20. At first she thought it was a matter of a passing debility and she secretly took marrow syrup and put honey on her eyes, but quite soon she began to realize that she was irrevocably sinking into the darkness, to a point where she never had a clear notion of the invention of the electric light, for when they put in the first bulbs she was only able to perceive the glow

21. Electric light bulbs can break and damage occurs to the possessions inside houses

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22. tar, under the bright electric light, past the man and the metal bars of the gate, a trail of

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23. The different planes fill up the same space and interpenetrate one another like the light of a hurricane lamp, electric light, gas lamp and an ordinary kerosene chimney in a room

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24. Rocco was incongruously illuminated with an electric light bulb halo

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25. He could, as if by magic, install an electric light fitting without visible

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26. “Er, you expect us to believe that? ‘Cos unless I’m mistaken this place is blazing with electric lights

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27. Starlight is represented by garlands of mini-white electric lights

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28. "…and luxuriantly bedecked…": with the electric lights

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29. In places where such things have taken place, the malignant devil is enabled to manifest itself as a visible specter without a material body; that is, as an immaterial ghost, similar to a faint white electric light

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30. The electric light has caused

31. If we stand in any large city and let the eye rest on the innumerable large and magnificent buildings, the railroads, the electric cars, the telephones, the electric lights, and all the other conveniences of modern civilization, we may remember that not one of them was there 100 years ago, and if we could stand on the same spot in a hundred years from now, in all probability we should find that but few of them remained

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32. Barnes actually preferred to relinquish the reading aloud rather than use my electric light in the daytime

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33. Barnes have said if she had seen me burning the electric light and doing what she calls trying my eyes at such an hour? It doesn't matter that they are my eyes and my light: Mrs

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34. Shading should be a subtle blending rather than obvious patches; use pinks, golds, peaches and reds in daytime, and keep the darker browns for use under electric light

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35. Now they try to veneer it over with electric lights and bright varnish, but I suppose it comes to the same thing

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36. The newly-lit wood fire blazed cheerfully when they went in, but its amiable light was immediately quenched by the electric light Wemyss switched on at the door

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37. She had supposed she could do as she liked with him, use his house, be waited on by his servants, waste his electric light, interfere between him and his wife, say what she chose, lecture him, stand there and insult him, and he had showed her very quickly and clearly that she couldn't

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38. Just when Gabby couldn't bear the flow of power anymore, the point of light flared brightly and they were plunged into darkness, the electric lights flickering off for a moment

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39. Levi lifted the electric light and held it Harvey Schwartz/The Reluctant Terrorist

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40. An unshaded electric light hung above her head

41. It was dark now over Athens, except for gauzy red streaks where the streets ran; and the front of the Palace was cadaverous from electric light

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42. Even this dark night when the wind rolls the darkness through Lombard Street and Fetter Lane and Bedford Square it stirs (since it is summer-time and the height of the season), plane trees spangled with electric light, and curtains still preserving the room from the dawn

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43. For some reason or other the electric light was not switched on, and the big room was lit up only by a few tall candles, just enough for us to see each other's faces by

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44. Suddenly the electric light went out; there was a bruising thud in the penny-in-the-slot meter

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45. At 10:50 in the evening, that electric light reappeared three miles to windward of the frigate, just as clear and intense as the night before

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46. Assuredly, we were dealing with civilized people, and if it hadn't been for this electric light flooding over us, I would have thought we were in the dining room of the Hotel Adelphi in Liverpool, or the Grand Hotel in Paris

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47. Electric light flooded this whole harmonious totality, falling from four frosted half globes set inthe scrollwork of the ceiling

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48. In 1864, during experiments on fishing by electric light in the middle of the North Sea, glass panes less than seven millimeters thick were seen to resist a pressure of sixteen atmospheres, all the while letting through strong, heat–generating rays whose warmth was unevenly distributed

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49. water as well as underwater, shafts of electric light are transmitted

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50. So we were never lacking in provisions of the highest quality, which the Nautilus'sspeed and the allure of its electric light could continually replenish

51. At first I thought the beacon had gone back on and was casting its electric light into the liquid mass

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52. He grew still more pale under the electric light that bathed his deathbed

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53. Along the narrow walls of this passageway, I saw only brilliant streaks, hard lines, fiery furrows, all scrawled by our speeding electric light

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54. Although the lounge was hermetically sealed, it was filling with an intolerable stink of sulfur, and I could see scarlet flames of such brightness, they overpowered our electric light

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55. Around the Nautilus for a half–mile radius, the waters seemed saturated with electric light

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56. The general effect of these smooth rocks is indescribable: black, polished, without moss or other blemish, carved into strange shapes, sitting firmly on a carpet of sand that sparkled beneath our streams of electric light

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57. At eleven o'clock the electric lights came back on

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58. There was a large piece of ground, the property of the town, that was a suitable site for the works; so in their character of directors of the Electric Light Coy

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59. He said that every encouragement should be given to the promoters of the Electric Light Coy

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60. ) There could be no doubt that the introduction of the electric light would be a great addition to the attractions of Mugsborough, but there was another and more urgent reason that disposed him to do whatever he could to encourage the Company to proceed with this work

61. ) He admitted that the electric light would be an improvement to the town, and in view of the existing distress he would be glad to see the work started, but the price mentioned was altogether too low

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62. That meeting was held two years ago, and since that time the Electric Light Works had been built and the war against the gasworks carried on vigorously

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63. They were reluctantly constrained to admit that the attempt to undermine the Gasworks was a melancholy failure, and that the Mugsborough Electric Light and Installation Coy

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64. `Then,' continued the Chief, `we can arrange for it to be proposed in the Council that the Town should purchase the Electric Light Works

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65. It was an informal affair, and while they were waiting for the other luminaries, the early arrivals, Messrs Rushton, Didlum and Grinder, Mr Oyley Sweater, the Borough Surveyor, Mr Wireman, the electrical engineer who had been engaged as an `expert' to examine and report on the Electric Light Works, and two or three other gentlemen - all members of the Band - took advantage of the opportunity to discuss a number of things they were mutually interested in, which were to be dealt with at the meeting of the Town Council the next day

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66. The report of Mr Wireman, the electrical expert, was also to be dealt with, and afterwards a resolution in favour of the purchase of the Mugsborough Electric light and Installation Co

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67. The next day, at the meeting of the Town Council, Mr Wireman's report concerning the Electric Light Works was read

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68. Weakling withdrew during the singing, and afterwards, before the Band dispersed, it was agreed that a certain number of them were to meet the Chief at the Cave, on the following evening to arrange the details of the proposed raid on the finances of the town in connection with the sale of the Electric Light Works

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69. The electric light was switched on, and as Crass and Sawkins came in they saw that the marble slab was empty

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70. We eat electric light

71. ” The electric lights in the ceiling are far apart, and the silence in the huge space is oppressive

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72. Ky Ebright and his freshman and varsity crews had arrived several days before and moved into a brand-spanking-new boathouse on the more convenient Poughkeepsie side of the river, complete with city water, hot showers, a dining room, cooking facilities, electric lights, and spacious sleeping quarters

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73. There were hot showers, exercise facilities, electric lights, and a spacious dormitory, complete with extra-long beds

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74. They made their way past beer gardens illuminated by bright strings of electric lights, full of people singing gaily, dancing polkas, and hoisting steins of beer in their direction

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75. Holmes picked one out, but it was hard to read by the flickering fire, and he drew out his little dark lantern, for it was too dangerous, with Milverton in the next room, to switch on the electric light

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76. There was a sharp snick as the electric light was turned on

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77. In front of him, in the full glare of the electric light, there stood a tall, slim, dark woman, a veil over her face, a mantle drawn round her chin

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78. Is it not clear that there is just as much of the pencil left as usually follows the Johann?" He held the small table sideways to the electric light

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79. Holmes held it out on his open palm in the glare of the electric light

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80. ‘The electric light everywhere

81. ‘Yes, the electric light,’ said Levin

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82. He sprang across the room, switched on the electric light, and in its white glare I saw him, his eyes gleaming with anger, his face twisted with passion, as the hapless charwoman may have seen him weeks before

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83. It was impossible, unthinkable—and yet there, in the white glare of the electric light beneath us, was that dark figure with the bent grey head, and the twitching elbow

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84. "Simpson! Simpson!" roared Mortimer, and far away down the vista of electric lighted doors we saw the stiff figure of the old soldier suddenly appear

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85. Bingo is yet the only gambling allowed, and the coach parties still drive up to see “The Illuminations,” dating from the time when electric light was a real novelty

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86. Here and there, electric lights cleared larger spheres of green and gold in the otherwise deep-blue tangle of branches

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87. com or, in earlier times, the Edison Electric Light Co

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88. On a fiber-optic network, this is the equivalent of opening a window to let the sunlight into a room instead of turning on an electric light

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89. There was something hard and alert in his eyes, like small electric lightbulbs burning there

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90. The electric lights hummed on as soon as he crossed the threshold

91. He counted sideways until he found a point of electric light that might have been Harrods

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92. The electric lights of Harrods illuminated the whole width of the road

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93. Built by the Edison Electric Light Station company, it opened in January 1882 and supplied power to light the Holborn Viaduct and local businesses

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94. Quiet, quiet, the boarders laid the best linens and gleaming silver and lit candles rather than switch on electric lights and snap the spell

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95. The Witch pulled back the merest quarter inch as if some strange but hidden electric light socket, touched with wet whorl, gave shock

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96. They say the electric lighting plant held out until the last, and that even as they watched the ship sink, from their places in the floating life-boats, her lights were gleaming in long rows as she plunged under by the head

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97. They also watch the working of each part of the machinery which had nothing to do with the actual speed of the ship, principally the electric light dynamos and the refrigerating plant

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98. Then there were none of the comfortable smoking rooms, well-filled libraries, drawing rooms, electric lights, and other modern improvements

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99. Holmes picked one out, but it was as hard to read by the flickering fire, and he drew out his little dark lantern, for it was too dangerous, with Milverton in the next room, to switch on the electric light

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100. These continued intermittently for the space of a quarter of an hour, sending chance shots at the invisible Martians at Hampton and Ditton, and then the pale beams of the electric light vanished, and were replaced by a bright red glow