candle-power

I see nothing wrong with Eric Cantor acting his real (not chronological) age and interacting with those of similar intellectual candle-power.

Eric Cantor Seen At Britney Spears Concert 2009

It has supplied pretty regularly 3 gas-jets (one of them higher candle-power – I think 60 – than the others) & a fourth occasionally.

Boing Boing 2008

This we did with the help of a Lux lamp of 200 candle-power, which gave an excellent light and kept the indoor temperature at about 68° F. throughout the winter.

The South Pole~ The First Account 2009

The nights I stayed there, however, something was wrong with the electricity and we were operating on candle-power.

Hotels de la Salud, Meson del Gallo and Madala 2002

This we did with the help of a Lux lamp of 200 candle-power, which gave an excellent light and kept the indoor temperature at about

The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the 'Fram', 1910 to 1912 2003

Wesley's face lit and glowed like a million candle-power searchlight.

Encounter At Farpoint Gerrold, David, 1944- 1990

It hurt to see and she was forced to blink rapidly, bringing some of the darkness back so that she would not be overwhelmed by the candle-power.

The Miko Lustbader, Eric 1984

The statue looked somehow less sinister in the unglamorous glare of three hundred watts than it had in the wavering candle-power of flashlights.

Salvage for the Saint Charteris, Leslie, 1907- 1983

Situation: they stood about five yards from the car and they weren't looking at me and there was a flush of light rising from behind the long-hauler as someone else came homing in on the trap and in ten seconds or so they'd be dazzled by it if they looked in my direction so it wasn't a question of yards but of seconds and increasing candle-power.

The Striker Portfolio Hall, Adam 1968

There would be a World Premier Ball at the university gymnasium and a monster rally in the public square, the latter lit by one-million candle-power of spot and flood lights as well as the great searchlight.

The Private World of William Faulkner Coughlan, Robert, 1914- 1953