electrolier

Example Sentences

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It was a warm night and under the glow of the electrolier Rosemary's magnificent hair curled and shone like polished bronze.

From Rosemary by Lawrence, Josephine

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

Then she shifts sudden to another chair, where she has me under the electrolier, facin' her, and I knows that I'm let in for something.

From Wilt Thou Torchy by Ford, Sewell

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

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