"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
... dark night, and I tiptoed down to the end that overlooked the city and stood looking at the lights and listening to the music of the switch engines in the yards below the hill. The porch was in darkness except the broad beam of light from the hall gas jet through ...
— Danger Signals • John A. Hill and Jasper Ewing Brady
... to sleep in a house or room with a gas jet or gas stove turned low. The pressure in the pipes may change and the flame go out, or a breeze may blow out the flame leaving the gas ...
— Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts • Girl Scouts
... girls were huddled together in the dark scantily-furnished front room, which at some time probably had served the purpose of a combined parlor and reception room. The next apartment, probably designed as a living room, was lighted by a single gas jet turned low. ...
— Campfire Girls in the Allegheny Mountains - or, A Christmas Success against Odds • Stella M. Francis
... light, tough ashplant, with a silver band around the handle. The barrister held it under a gas jet and examined it closely. Nothing escaped him. After scrutinising the band for some time, he looked at the ferrule, and roughly estimated that the owner had used it two or three years. Finally, when quite satisfied, he ...
— The Stowmarket Mystery - Or, A Legacy of Hate • Louis Tracy
... permitted to go home at once? She was sent home in the automobile and when she reached her own room her first act was to find and open Isaiah's letter which had arrived that afternoon. With trembling fingers she held it beneath the gas jet and this ...
— Mary-'Gusta • Joseph C. Lincoln
... housewife in the home. This method of determining the freshness of eggs consists in placing a piece of cardboard containing a hole a little smaller than an egg between the eye and a light, which may be from a lamp, a gas jet, or an electric light, and holding the egg in front of the light in the manner shown in Fig. 4. The rays of light passing through the egg show the condition of the egg, the size of its air space, and the growth of mold or the spoiling of the ...
— Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 2 - Volume 2: Milk, Butter and Cheese; Eggs; Vegetables • Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences |
