How To Use Gaslight In A Sentence
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The cottage is fitted with electric light fixtures designed to resemble the original gaslight fixtures of the 1860s, and modern wiring and plumbing have been installed.
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Turning on the gaslight, hoping that he wouldn't notice the tatty furniture and peeling brown wallpaper, she stepped into his arms, tilting her head so that he had no choice but to bring his lips down onto hers.
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The color was particularly brilliant beneath the gaslight of the theater.
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If he is truly "gaslighting" you then he is not following the Christian guidelines of a marriage.
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Every touch is just right - from the titular gaslights, which flicker eerily in the darkness, to the intensely cramped Victorian-era London house that Paula and Gregory occupy.
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As late as the early 1900s, older houses with gaslight were still being retrofitted for electricity.
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Particularly notable is the open announcement that s/he would "gaslight" my predecessor to the bitter end, and explicitly telling untentured faculty that if s/he did not do EXACTLY as the bully said, said untenured faculty member would not be receiving tenure.
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The Revivalist home styles of the 1920s brought a craze for wall sconces - another gaslight derivative - but the fashion had largely died out by the end of that decade.
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The same decade saw the foundation of the South Kensington Museum, endowed with an exemplary collection for craftsmen to learn from, and soon lit by gaslight in order to encourage working people to visit the collections in the evening.
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Is this normal, or am I being gaslighted?
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Evenings, when we are both home, we usually sit at our wooden table, boiling rose tea in which to dip the day-old bread that complements a warmed, fragrant spread of salted schmaltz, sharing our borrowed newspaper or occasional magazine by gaslight.
Deadly
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Padlin doubted his eyes were visible, shadowed from the overhead gaslights by the brim of his beaver hat.
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They crossed to the farther side of the river, where the influence of the Gothic monument threw a distinction even over the Parisian smartnesses -- the municipal rule and measure, the importunate symmetries, the "handsomeness" of everything, the extravagance of gaslight, the perpetual click on the neat bridges.
The Tragic Muse
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Wavering hawaii beach vacations thalidomide, air frypan, sanies reimbursement, maybe gaslight scheelite and air anastalsis to economiser.
Rational Review
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What a glorious discovery is the gaslight!
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And no city sells its gaslights and cobblestones better than Charleston, largely because so much of it is both authentic and charming.
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Next door, in a small room to which day and night were the same, Mr. Pascoe was always to be found bending over his hobbing foot, under a tiny yellow fan of gaslight which could be heard making a tenuous shrilling whenever the bootmaker looked up, and ceased riveting.
London River
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Several gaslights had been lit, forming a semicircle of illumination.
G'lder
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It is all a world away from my first experience of indoor nets above a Wandsworth garage, at Alf Gover's, with its gaslights and linseed locker-room.
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Adding drama to the downtown scene are the melodramas and vaudeville revues presented at the Gaslighter Theater.
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What had it come to beyond the gaslights and wood fires?
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And Mesdames and Messieurs could truly see what was in those tantalizing vitrines — the arcades were early converts to gaslight.
Paris Under Glass
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Did this include the re-introduction of gaslights?
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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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Opening night for the Gaslight Follies is Saturday, May 18.
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In 1878, he established Edison Electric Light Company and announced plans to invent safe electric lights to take the place of Shanghai's dangerous gaslights.
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He would show his collection by gaslight.
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Inside the main room, there is an ornate gaslight in each corner.
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A group of 16 Tucson-based jazz pros will fire up the Gaslight Theatre tonight.
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The Palace Grand Prize is the title of this year's instalment of the Gaslight Follies at the Palace Grand Theatre in Dawson City.
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His bedroom has retained its working gaslight.
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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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How do you know if you are being gaslighted?
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Where fire was, there they lurked; candle-flame, or gaslight, coal-fire or stoked box of a steam-boiler, burning hearth or burning forest-aIl held his informants, any of which could impart their observations to him.
Red dust
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In fact, neither the bookshop nor the stationer's had been illuminated electrically, although they did have gaslight.
Red dust
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The gaslights were few and far between on Water Street.
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Gas drums made of 2 cm wire-mesh-reinforced concrete or fibrocement must receive a gaslight internal coating.
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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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In fact, neither the bookshop nor the stationer's had been illuminated electrically, although they did have gaslight.
Red dust
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Those two faces looking out of the forest of long hair, moustache, and whisker — those two cold yet bold, trustless yet presumptuous visages — were the same faces, the very same that, projected in full gaslight from behind the pillars of a portico, had half frightened me to death on the night of my desolate arrival in Villette.
Villette
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As late as the early 1900s, older houses with gaslight were still being retrofitted for electricity.
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It was hard to make out the stars because of the gaslights below the building, but she had a better view here then the one she had in London.
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In discussing "The Night Café" 1888, a well-known depiction of a disreputable barroom in Arles—a jarring composition featuring bright yellow gaslight shining on blood-red walls—they tell us that "Vincent began his dissonant painting in a dissonant mood.
A Stranger to Himself
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As paved roads, the telegraph, telephone lines, gaslights, and electric lines caused the city to change, so did the CPD.
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His bedroom has retained its working gaslight.
Times, Sunday Times
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A husband who tells his wife that she suffers from Borderline Personality Disorder when she becomes frustrated because she is consistently being told that things that were said or done didn't happen, is gaslighting his wife.
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Like railroads, gaslights were instrumental stimulants for industrial growth.
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Adding drama to the downtown scene are the melodramas and vaudeville revues presented at the Gaslighter Theater.
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As Nead compellingly demonstrates, the volatile magic of gaslight lent enchantment and vitality to the pursuit of pleasure after dark, recreating the city as a vast stage set or Benjaminesque phantasmagoria.
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The gaslights flickered softly, and as the time passed the surroundings no longer seemed faded and threadbare but rich and sumptuous.
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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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Central heating and gaslights were included in the architect's specifications, followed a little later by the introduction of electricity throughout the house.
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“Oh, Yetta, because,” Rahel snapped back, shoving open the door of their apartment and reaching up to turn on the gaslights.
Uprising
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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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Adding drama to the downtown scene are the melodramas and vaudeville revues presented at the Gaslighter Theater.
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Members of Britain's Bowler family, enacting a Victorian lifestyle for PBS's ‘The 1900 House,’ have to read by gaslight and boil their laundry.
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Evenings, when we are both home, we usually sit at our wooden table, boiling rose tea in which to dip the day-old bread that complements a warmed, fragrant spread of salted schmaltz, sharing our borrowed newspaper or occasional magazine by gaslight.
Deadly
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In the theaters, the gaslights are going out, replaced by flat, bright electric illumination.
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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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Just as much of today's horror fiction is vampire-driven, one major branch of modern fantasy -- in novels, "cosplay" (costume play), gaming and comics -- is obsessed with an alternate 19th century, one in which the inventions and mad scientists of Jules Verne, the tweedy science fiction of H.G. Wells and the gaslight romances of Arthur Conan Doyle have been mixed and remixed.
"The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack," steampunk by Mark Hodder
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Like railroads, gaslights were instrumental stimulants for industrial growth.
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Then she blew out the gaslight and took the pot and spoon to the table.
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Electric lighting was such a powerful symbol of progress that early lighting fixtures proudly flaunted bare bulbs so that no one would dare mistake them for gaslights.
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They will try to control the situation in such a way that the person who was gaslighted is kept away from other associates.
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Street gaslights add their glow to the swimming moonshine and are reflected in the siren's diamond coronet and huge dark eyes that know the secrets of the deep.
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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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We've always argued, but lately she's accusing me of gaslighting her.
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Landscaping officer Cowling said staff were trying to confirm with historians a story that Maldon was the last place in the country to have working gaslights.
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He turns down all the gaslights in the house the house so everything gets dim.
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I've also realized she's been gaslighting me for months now; causing me to doubt myself and how I've handled things.
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She gaslights him into believing he is developing superpowers.
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I watched his bulky frame receding beneath the gaslight as we pulled away.
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She gaslights her mother into a pitiable downfall.
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It's a shame that gaslights are no longer around, but you can still enjoy deliciously spook atmosphere in the darker streets, and glamour around Piccadilly Circus and Trafalgar Square.
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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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Another important part of weaving the past into my story was walking the streets of Brooklyn Heights, especially on a snowy night when it's easier to imagine carriages clattering down the streets and gaslight flickering behind the windows of the brownstones.
Patricia O'Brien discusses her novel Harriet & Isabella, about the trial of Henry Ward Beecher, brother of Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom's Cabin
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I'm pretty sure a coworker is gaslighting me.
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A silver Jaguar convertible with black-tinted windows glinted beneath the gaslights.
Etched in Bone
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The influence of gaslight or electric light on the growth of adjoining paraheliotropic trees.
Ulysses
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‘Van Gogh mentioned in his letters that his paintings looked different in daylight and gaslight,’ said Bluhm.
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The inner wall must either be gaslight at the base or rest on a ring of "gaslight" mortar (h).
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The author shows how gaslight gave the night walker the experience of poetry and irrationality.
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If I ever receive a copy I will most certainly eat it up just like that. *grin* I think that the genre is called gaslight, but I am not so sure really.
Reviews of fantasy and science fiction books
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His bedroom has retained its working gaslight.
Times, Sunday Times
