| He professed to be hurt and affronted by suggestions that he was just trying to gaslight a competitor's customers. |
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| Fashionable Victorians flocked to promenade through this new underwater marvel, an amazing twin-bore arched corridor lit by flickering gaslight. |
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| Edison designed this distribution system to compete with gaslight on price, while offering brighter and safer illumination. |
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| The author shows how gaslight gave the night walker the experience of poetry and irrationality. |
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| His eyes were an unusual green color that gave off a faint luminescence in the gaslight. |
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| It is the only cinema, perhaps in the country, certainly in the region, that still uses gaslight. |
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| Sharlene agreed to participate in Gary's plan to gaslight Grant and slipped a drug into Grant's drink. |
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| As late as the early 1900s, older houses with gaslight were still being retrofitted for electricity. |
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| Lurid and licentious, lit only by gaslight, the city encompasses art both elevated and abused, pomp and excess, poverty and hardship. |
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| 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. |
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| Inside the main room, there is an ornate gaslight in each corner. |
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| I watched his bulky frame receding beneath the gaslight as we pulled away. |
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| Then she blew out the gaslight and took the pot and spoon to the table. |
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| The color was particularly brilliant beneath the gaslight of the theater. |
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| The first public gas company in the world was set up in London in 1812, and Westminster Bridge was the first public thoroughfare to be illuminated by gaslight. |
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| 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. |
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| Paxton was in the Army and visited the Village on the weekends to play gigs at the gaslight and the Commons. |
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| The armchair he painted for Gauguin is more substantial, with a gaslight behind it creating a mysterious, nocturnal effect. |
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| To those used to gaslight or candles, their unwavering glare was unnerving. |
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| These lamps were replaced by gaslight on December 31, 1855 but still had to be lit by a lamplighter with a ladder each night. |
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| In 1829, the rue de la Paix was the first street in Paris to be equipped with gaslight. |
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| Our website invites you to discover the charming gaslight with the various facets. |
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| Enormous technical and industrial achievements were only possible through the development of gaslight. |
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| It is the sun which is in electricity and in gaslight, and in all forms of heat it is the sun which manifests through different processes. |
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| Much like the sewage system put the night cart men into other professions, or electricity put an end to the gaslight men, the book industry is also undergoing change. |
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| 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. |
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| In November 1730, the permanent street light was introduced, and by 1867 many streets had a gaslight. |
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| It was only in the 1960s that film-makers, and TV producers, began to exploit the potential of the Victorian atmosphere – gaslight, London fog, cobblestones, peelers, urchins, clubs – that Conan Doyle so matchlessly evoked. |
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| Indoors, gaslight plays virtually no role any more. |
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| In 1817, bare flame gaslight had replaced the former candles and oil lamps that lighted the Covent Garden stage. |
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| On 29 December 1881, The Times described the electric lighting as superior, visually, to gaslight. |
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| In his age of gaslight and the telegraph, Disraeli had discerned the fundamentals, the essence, of what higher learning would be learning, light, liberty. |
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| Public illumination preceded the discovery and adoption of gaslight by centuries. |
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| South Orange, New Jersey, has adopted the gaslight as the symbol of the town, and uses them on nearly all streets. |
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| Standing opposite him, partially lit by the bulb shining from its gaslight cage, was a young woman dressed in a miniskirt of stretch fabric and a bosomy blouse of silver lamé. |
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| Abandoned gaslight in Poole's Cavern, Buxton, Derbyshire, England. |
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