"Electric switch" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... met her on the threshold, staying the hand she raised to the electric switch. She moved slowly through the dying light to the window and stood before it motionless, gazing forth into the glory. It poured around her in a rosy splendour, lighting her pale, tired face. For several minutes she stood drinking in the beauty of ...
— The Keeper of the Door • Ethel M. Dell
... the enameled wall and found the electric switch. Turning, to cover all corners of the stateroom he ...
— Peter the Brazen - A Mystery Story of Modern China • George F. Worts
... lighted, but she found the hall, when she reached it, in darkness, save for one tiny light above the electric switch on the wall near the entrance. Myra pressed the switch and at once the apartment ...
— Bandit Love • Juanita Savage
... of apprehension and he was angry with himself over his inability to concentrate his mind. Concentration was his god. He could turn from lace-buyer to floor-walker with the quickness of the swing of an electric switch. Concentrate and he was oblivious to everything but the subject in hand. He was in one of the moments of apprehension, half staring at the buttons on the desk rather than at the papers, when he heard the door open without warning and looked up to see ...
— Over the Pass • Frederick Palmer
... all in a moment, fear seized her again—the sudden consciousness of some one near her, some one watching. With a gasp she started to her feet, and on the instant there came the click of the electric switch by the door, and the room was flooded ...
— The Swindler and Other Stories • Ethel M. Dell
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