electrolier

Example Sentences

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And he was no more than there, in the shadow of the portières, when light from an electrolier flooded the reception-hall.

From The Lone Wolf A Melodrama by Vance, Louis Joseph

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)

And, sure enough, by holdin' the pad under the big electrolier in the lib'ry, we could trace out the address.

From Shorty McCabe on the Job by Ford, Sewell

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

Then she picked up the Gubby dancers and led them in a clattering improvised lockstep thrice round the stage till her last kick sent her diamond-hiked shoe catherine-wheeling to the electrolier.

From A Diversity of Creatures by Kipling, Rudyard