electrolier

Example Sentences

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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)

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

When they reached the great hall and stood under the brilliant electrolier he unfolded it and held it out for his son's perusal.

From The Men Who Wrought by Cullum, Ridgwell

Suddenly Maloney turned off every electric light except the lights in the electrolier, the glare of which was intensified by the surrounding darkness.

From The Third Degree A Narrative of Metropolitan Life by Klein, Charles

Mrs. Heth, who had helped Willie with his furnishings, had considered it the prettiest electrolier that fourteen dollars would buy in the town during the week before last.

From V. V.'s Eyes by Harrison, Henry Sydnor