electrolier

Example Sentences

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The walls were panelled in myrtle, the same electrolier hung from the ceiling as he had seen on his previous visit.

From The Secret House by Wallace, Edgar

There was a little click as a hand pressed a button on the wall and the whole room was flooded with light from the great electrolier in the centre.

From A Little Book for Christmas by Brady, Cyrus Townsend

But he sat down at the oval table under the electrolier, and came abruptly to his point.

From The Crime Doctor by Hornung, Ernest William

And he was no more than there, in the shadow of the portières, when light from an electrolier flooded the reception-hall.

From The Lone Wolf A Melodrama by Vance, Louis Joseph

In the mass they had nothing but a mechanical existence, subject as they were to the brightness or dimness of the electrolier that regulated their attention.

From Sinister Street, vol. 2 by MacKenzie, Compton