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electric-lighted

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  • He paused, holding the door ajar, and peered into a cool, electric-lighted cement room where stood a long, glass-fronted, glass-shelved refrigerator flanked by an ice-machine and a dynamo.

    CHAPTER III 2010

  • Honolulu a modern, electric-lighted city at a time when it straggled, unkempt and sand-tormented, over a barren reef of uplifted coral rock.

    Chun Ah Chun 2010

  • Where the pier adjoins the shore was the station of the harbor police, and Alf backed into the electric-lighted office, very much to the amusement of the dapper lieutenant in charge.

    In Yeddo Bay 2010

  • Outside the rain was splashing in torrents on the electric-lighted asphalt of

    The Titan 2004

  • It has the modern attributes of steam-heated, electric-lighted hotels and restaurants, a tramway system that is appalling and dangerous to all other traffic by reason of its complexity, and an Opera House and a Hôtel de Ville that would do credit to a city ten times its size.

    The Automobilist Abroad

  • It seemed to be steam-heated and electric-lighted, and although _Marie Antoinette_ did not make her entrance in an automobile, you felt that it was waiting outside.

    Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905 Various

  • He had simply disappeared, in this sane, electric-lighted street.

    Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930 Various

  • The curve of the tyre marks at the junction of the road gave me the direction I needed, and, letting my car go, in four or five minutes I found myself running into the electric-lighted streets of a town.

    The Motor Pirate G. Sidney Paternoster

  • But along the sidewalk where the electric-lighted bar-rooms buzzed and hummed, brawny cow-men, booted and spurred, lounged about, talking in that odd but not unpleasant Western English that could almost be called

    The River and I John G. Neihardt 1927

  • Gradually they had added an improvement here, a convenience there, as Chug's prosperity grew, until now the cottage by the tracks was newly painted, bathroomed, electric-lighted, with a cement walk front and back and a porch with a wicker swing and flower baskets.

    Half Portions Edna Ferber 1926

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