Example Sentences

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Later, the coffin rested in the glow of candles and the glare of television arc-lamps in Milan's great Gothic cathedral.

From Time Magazine Archive

It seemed like a boatless river frozen there in the raw light of the high white arc-lamps; you could drown trying to cross it, he felt; it was too wide, it was too open.

From "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury

In the first arc-lamps plain carbon electrodes were used, but in some of the latest carbon-arcs, electrodes of carbon impregnated with various salts are employed.

From Artificial Light Its Influence upon Civilization by Luckiesh, Matthew

There lay a sea of twinkling, glittering lights with three triangles of arc-lamps round it.

From 'Green Balls' The Adventures of a Night-Bomber by Bewsher, Paul

Below him the Square gleamed in white patches under the arc-lamps, and across these white patches here and there a belated pedestrian, coat collar turned up, hurried, a black shadow.

From Penguin Persons & Peppermints by Eaton, Walter Prichard