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  • At night, on these New England roads, there is no light, no pink sodium-vapor glow, no guideposts.

    Disorienteering Fred Osuna 2011

  • At night, on these New England roads, there is no light, no pink sodium-vapor glow, no guideposts.

    Disorienteering Fred Osuna 2011

  •  I looked all around at the bleak empty wasteland of a street that was lit up only by the light of a sodium-vapor lamp.

    Wild Dreams of Reality, 7 2010

  • Foggy night, suitable for some kind of lurking evil -- orange glow oozing from the sodium-vapor lights and reflecting off snow.

    Walking in the wet wild woods jhetley 2009

  • For everyone else, though, towering, garish sodium-vapor street lamps intrude on the peacefulness of the night with the insistence of a stuck horn.

    15 Ways To Fix The Suburbs 2008

  • Employing a sodium-vapor torch our neighbor will seek to defeat the night.

    Pa^2 Patois William "Papa" Meloney 2004

  • Employing a sodium-vapor torch our neighbor will seek to defeat the night.

    Archive 2004-07-18 William "Papa" Meloney 2004

  • They talked for just a minute longer and the man nodded, closed the door, and the cop turned and headed back to his cruiser, parked half-in, half-out of a pool of glowing orange from the sodium-vapor streetlight, old-growth trees towering into darkness and marching away in a long queue down the center of the grassy boulevard bisecting the street.

    Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 2004

  • They talked for just a minute longer and the man nodded, closed the door, and the cop turned and headed back to his cruiser, parked half-in, half-out of a pool of glowing orange from the sodium-vapor streetlight, old-growth trees towering into darkness and marching away in a long queue down the center of the grassy boulevard bisecting the street.

    Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 2004

  • He looped around the darkened park where hundreds of people strolled on the closed-to-summer-traffic roadway in the ghostly glow of decorative sodium-vapor lampposts.

    Sins of Two Fathers Denis Hamill 2003

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