electrolier

Example Sentences

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"Here, switch on the light someone," said Malcolm Sage, and a moment after there was a click and a three-lamp electrolier burst into light.

From John Dene of Toronto A Comedy of Whitehall by Jenkins, Herbert George

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

Then she picked up the Gubby dancers and led them in a clattering improvised lockstep thrice round the stage till her last kick sent her diamond-hiked shoe catherine-wheeling to the electrolier.

From A Diversity of Creatures by Kipling, Rudyard

Beyond this pile of ore, near the center of the room, twenty feet above the concrete floor, there was a large hanging electrolier.

From Astounding Stories, March, 1931 by Various

There was a fire ready laid in the grate; on the ceiling was a three-branch electrolier, but the switch by the door had been removed for some reason or other.

From The Slave of Silence by White, Fred M. (Fred Merrick)