Steampunk stories, which started appearing with regularity in the 1980s, eschew clean and orderly visions of the future in favor of gas-lighted streets, steam engines belching toxic smoke, and dastardly villains inventing strange technologies. ❋ Mac (2007)
Sipping a cider in the Bennett Tavern and Inn that at one time served travelers and canal workers, I can almost hear the footsteps of weary canal workers in their rooms above the pub can feel the spirit of gas-lighted diners and drinkers celebrating the prosperity that the canal brought them. ❋ Unknown (2007)
The pretty women, by this time in the short, gay foulards and in the dressy hats in which they will appear later at the Casino ball, are tripping up and down in the gas-lighted grounds. ❋ Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood (N/A)
Hot, gas-lighted theatric and operatic performances, beginning at eight, and ending at midnight; hot, crowded parties and balls; dancing with dresses tightly laced over the laboring lungs, -- these are almost the whole story. ❋ Various (N/A)
Then the pictures for a while grew blurred and confused, till presently they shewed the gas-lighted streets of London .... ❋ Unknown (N/A)
Boston, Washington, and other cities where the dining-rooms are ordinarily larger than those in a New York house, the danger of crowding, of heat, and want of ventilation, is more easily avoided; but in a gas-lighted, furnace-heated room in New York the sufferings of the diners-out are sometimes terrible. ❋ Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood (N/A)
There were several of the young people present one evening; and Miss Prue, enjoying the moonlighted veranda and the music from the gas-lighted drawing-room, as well as anybody, watched the little by-plays with keen, interested eyes. ❋ Fannie E. Newberry (N/A)
Fanny Brandeis was to see much that was beautiful and rare in her full lifetime, but she never again, perhaps, got quite the thrill that those ugly, dim, red-carpeted, gas-lighted hotel corridors gave her, or the grim bedroom, with its walnut furniture and its Nottingham curtains. ❋ Edna Ferber (1926)
The December kitchen was gas-lighted long before she got there, and ❋ Kathleen Thompson Norris (1923)
We talked of precious stones, recalling the Koh-i-noor in its small gas-lighted tent at the 1851 Exhibition. ❋ Stephen Lucius Gwynn (1907)
They slept while the tavern emptied itself of noisy guests and clattering crockery was washed at the dingy, gas-lighted windows that overlooked the cockpit. ❋ Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson (1902)
England will either learn to reverence its heroes, and discriminate them from its sham heroes and valets and gas-lighted histories, and to prize them as the audible God's voice amid all inane jargons and temporary market-cries, and say to them with heart loyalty, 'Be ye King and Priest and Gospel and guidance for us,' or else England will continue to worship new and ever new forms of ❋ Unknown (1902)
It fitted, and he was in a gas-lighted passage, with an oil-clothed floor, and a single door to his left. ❋ John Galsworthy (1900)
I wonder sometimes whether he has succeeded in writing himself into liberty and a pension at last, or had to go out of his gas-lighted grave straight into that other dark one where nobody would want to intrude. ❋ Joseph Conrad (1890)
At about half-past six we got into Truro, a clean wide flourishing town with London shops, a commemorative column, a fine spired church, bridges over narrow streams, and, like most other West of England towns, well payed and gas-lighted. ❋ Tupper, Martin F (1886)
In the passage above, which was gas-lighted, he found his hat on a nail, and the two left the house together. ❋ George Gissing (1880)
At first she lay back in the corner of the cab in a state of dreamy peace, watching the gas-lighted streets, the hurrying passengers, with a comfortable sense of security and rest. ❋ Edna Lyall (1880)
