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Examples
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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For everyone else, though, towering, garish sodium-vapor street lamps intrude on the peacefulness of the night with the insistence of a stuck horn.
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Employing a sodium-vapor torch our neighbor will seek to defeat the night.
Pa^2 Patois William "Papa" Meloney 2004
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Employing a sodium-vapor torch our neighbor will seek to defeat the night.
Archive 2004-07-18 William "Papa" Meloney 2004
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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.
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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.
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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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