At that instant Tom flashed a pocket
electric lamp he had taken from beneath his pillow and in the gleam of it he and Ned saw fluttering about the tent some dark, shadow-like form, at the sight of which Tom's chum cried:
The
electric lamp was combined in such a way as to give its most powerful light.
I recognised his face at once, although I had only seen it by the flash of my
electric lamp. From that moment I have had my suspicions."
I took out the list of Professor Challenger's exploits, and I read it over under the
electric lamp. Then I had what I can only regard as an inspiration.
There was a noise of business from the gasworks, and the
electric lamps were all alight.
It may be lit with fifteen thousand tiny electric lamps and nerved with as much wire as would reach from New York to Berlin.
Here electric lamps are made, five thousand of them in a day, in the same manner as elsewhere, except that here they are so small and dainty as to seem designed for fairy palaces.
I'll have a row of
electric lamps up here inside of six months, and you won't know it again, with a thousand candle-power Swan and Edison right here in front of the hall door."
It appeared that this was a great manufacturing place, where the people were engaged in making things, as though the West End, with its
electric lamps, its vast plate-glass windows all shining yellow, its carefully-finished houses, and tiny live figures trotting on the pavement, or bowled along on wheels in the road, was the finished work.
Keep this near your heart." As he spoke he lifted a little silver crucifix and held it out to me, I being nearest to him, "put these flowers round your neck," here he handed to me a wreath of withered garlic blossoms, "for other enemies more mundane, this revolver and this knife, and for aid in all, these so small
electric lamps, which you can fasten to your breast, and for all, and above all at the last, this, which we must not desecrate needless."
Her head drooped; from the windows of a building with terraces and balconies came the banal sound of hotel music; before the low mean portals of the Casino two red posters blazed under the
electric lamps, with a cheap provincial effect.--and the emptiness of the quays, the desert aspect of the streets, had an air of hypocritical respectability and of inexpressible dreariness.
They lay alight in their cases like the
electric lamps above.
electric lamp - a lamp powered by electricity