What is "gasolier"

Usage examples of "gasolier".

No one has ever known her first name, let alone her second probably lighting one of her customary panatellas from the gasolier on the mahogany counter of the old cigar store on Old Compton Street.

Beneath the gasolier stood the center table with its two chairs facing each other, and this was where I often sat, upright and very comfortable, to read.

The heavy draperies of the front windows were swaying, and the gasolier above me had started to move.

I looked up at the gasolier to see if the electric bulbs were blinking.

And no sooner had she spoken those words than the gasolier up above us began to move.

He had removed his sunglasses, and he stood under the gasolier as if he was bathing in its light.

Austrian lusters of the gasolier overhead, congratulating and admonishing, but admonishing with a twinkle in his eyes.

Waters hesitated, then stepped out into the flickering yellow light coming from the brass gasolier above their heads.

The gasolier trembled, the floor throbbed, the little goblin dwelling pulsated as if it were alarmed.

She had just lowered the gasolier when she looked up and found Ivan watching her from the conservatory.

She glanced up at the gasolier, but heard no choir of angels announcing her entrance.

The ceiling lights were gasoliers, with brass arms and cut crystal cups for their bulbs, more ordinary yet more atmospheric than the sumptuous crystal chandeliers of the first floor.

Looking up, he saw an abovestairs maid lighting the gasoliers for the evening.

She held the picture of the double parlor in her mind, like a sacred sepia photograph – hadn't she seen such pictures, with the gasoliers, and those very chairs?

She held the picture of the double parlor in her mind, like a sacred sepia photograph-hadn't she seen such pictures, with the gasoliers, and those very chairs?