electrolier

Example Sentences

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He raised a pair of anguished eyes to the green and yellow paper festoons that trailed from the electrolier above the dining-table to various picture nails in the walls.

From Adventures of Bindle by Jenkins, Herbert George

It was clad from head to foot in a long coat of black silk, which shimmered in the half-light of the electrolier.

From Jack O' Judgment by Wallace, Edgar

In the dining-room was an electrolier made of seven kinds of inimical colored glass, and a plate-rack from which were hung department-store steins.

From The Innocents A Story for Lovers by Lewis, Sinclair

On its top, directly in the glare of light from an electrolier overhead, was spread a large black silk handkerchief.

From The Girl in the Golden Atom by Cummings, Ray

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