"Gas jet" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... into the centre of the floor, and placing them beneath the gas jet he stepped backward and tilted his head to ...
— Elkan Lubliner, American • Montague Glass
... of that dark winter day Mr. Clarence came down into the parlor, and found Cora still there, with one gas jet ...
— For Woman's Love • Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth
... Window. We can hear beats only up to fifteen in a second, beyond that number they give the sensation of a musical or continuous sound. In our sense of sight we can see pulsations or intermittent flashes up to only six in a second, beyond that number they give the sensation of a continuous light; a gas jet, if extinguished and relit six times in a second, can be seen to flicker, but beyond that rate is to our sense of sight a steady flame. The effect may also be shown by making the top of a match red-hot; when stationary or moving slowly, it ...
— Science and the Infinite - or Through a Window in the Blank Wall • Sydney T. Klein
... it was! He tossed off his coat and sat for ten minutes looking blankly at the sputtering gas jet. Then his whole life, desolate as a desert, loomed up before him with appalling distinctness. Throwing himself on the floor beside his bed, with clasped hands and arms outstretched on the white counterpane, he sobbed. "Oh! ...
— The Moccasin Maker • E. Pauline Johnson
... display in the candy shop they were looking at. Across the window, hung from the gas jet by ribbons, ...
— Dew Drops, Vol. 37, No. 7, February 15, 1914 • Various
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