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

Then she shifts sudden to another chair, where she has me under the electrolier, facin' her, and I knows that I'm let in for something.

From Wilt Thou Torchy by Ford, Sewell

Margaret sought out a small bundle tied to the electrolier on the right hand side of the hall.

From Ethel Morton's Holidays by Smith, Mabell S. C. (Mabell Shippie Clarke)

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

"Here, switch on the light someone," said Malcolm Sage, and a moment after there was a click and a three-lamp electrolier burst into light.

From John Dene of Toronto A Comedy of Whitehall by Jenkins, Herbert George