Sentences with gaslight
gas·light
G g - The gaslights in the passage would be on, turned low.
- He would show his collection by gaslight.
- Central heating and gaslights were included in the architect's specifications, followed a little later by the introduction of electricity throughout the house.
- The gaslights were few and far between on Water Street.
- gaslight melodrama
- How do you know if your partner is gaslighting you?
- In the theaters, the gaslights are going out, replaced by flat, bright electric illumination.
- Did this include the re-introduction of gaslights?
- What had it come to beyond the gaslights and wood fires?
- Edison designed this distribution system to compete with gaslight on price, while offering brighter and safer illumination.
- In the lobby of the police station in Court Square, he looked up from his notepad, squinting at the gaslight after a long engagement with a sheet of paper.
- Members of Britain's Bowler family, enacting a Victorian lifestyle for PBS's ‘The 1900 House,’ have to read by gaslight and boil their laundry.
- The author shows how gaslight gave the night walker the experience of poetry and irrationality.
- ‘Van Gogh mentioned in his letters that his paintings looked different in daylight and gaslight,’ said Bluhm.
- Turning on the gaslight, hoping that he wouldn't notice the tatty furniture and peeling brown wallpaper, she stepped into his arms, tilting her head so that he had no choice but to bring his lips down onto hers.
- The color was particularly brilliant beneath the gaslight of the theater.
- Sharlene agreed to participate in Gary's plan to gaslight Grant and slipped a drug into Grant's drink.
- As late as the early 1900s, older houses with gaslight were still being retrofitted for electricity.
- The same decade saw the foundation of the South Kensington Museum, endowed with an exemplary collection for craftsmen to learn from, and soon lit by gaslight in order to encourage working people to visit the collections in the evening.
- It was much like modern gallery openings, except that it was held during the afternoon so that gaslight would not throw off the subtleties of Whistler's harmonies.
- He professed to be hurt and affronted by suggestions that he was just trying to gaslight a competitor's customers.
- Galleries were generally lit by skylights, although by the later nineteenth century many commercial art galleries were using gaslight in order to stay open after dark.
- Inside the main room, there is an ornate gaslight in each corner.
- Then she blew out the gaslight and took the pot and spoon to the table.
- I watched his bulky frame receding beneath the gaslight as we pulled away.
- As Nead compellingly demonstrates, the volatile magic of gaslight lent enchantment and vitality to the pursuit of pleasure after dark, recreating the city as a vast stage set or Benjaminesque phantasmagoria.