What is "gaslights"

Usage examples of "gaslights".

Through the interstices of a protective net I saw the reflector-shaded, wire-caged gaslights which from aloft shed down their brilliance solely on to the court proper, a stylised version of a barnyard of some ancient abbey in the Avignon of Pope Joan, or Cahors of the turreted bridge, or grey-walled Carcassonne of the many candlesnuffer towers.

It had the same wraparound porch as the others, the same gaslights, the same dormers and eaves.

It was so beautiful in the moonlight, the filthy water below it iridescent, the gaslights from Cheyne Walk flickering like St.

Yes, there were gaslights, but they had not been turned on, or else had been extinguished as soon as the lamplighter had gone on his way.

The theatres and music halls were disgorging their second-house audiences, the gin palaces their inebriates, into the blurred glow from gaslights and the naked flicker of naphtha fog-flares.

Talbot whistled nervously into his lantern and soon approached the stairwell at the far end of the vault, which promised a return to the warm gaslights and a shorter route to his home than the streets.

No candles or gaslights were permitted in Gore Hall because of the danger of fire, so the library alcoves and the books were dim as the winter.