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President by the flickering light of the torches, and one large gas lamp post on the sidewalk.”

From Washington Post • Oct. 5, 2015

“I recognized the lengthy form of the President by the flickering light of the torches, and one large gas lamp post on the sidewalk,” he wrote later.

From Washington Post • Apr. 10, 2015

The only light was from candles and a gas lamp.

From Time • Mar. 8, 2012

AS the last tinges of lavender faded from the fall sky, a group of people lingered for a moment beneath a flickering gas lamp on the threshold of an 18th-century London town house.

From New York Times • Dec. 31, 2010

Under the gas lamp, Hugo greets several men.

From "The Boy Who Dared" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti




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