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Examples
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The lights had gone out, but there were still a few gas-lit burners going.
Starcraft II: Devils’ Due Christie Golden 2011
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Like almost all of his contemporaries except Richard Dadd, he should have laid off the fairies, but when he concentrated on a nocturnal London Docks or gas-lit Leeds back street, he achieved a clarity of vision with his marbling of moonlight and shadow.
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The National Trust has another remote gas-lit cottage with no electricity in the foothills of Snowdonia, Foel Gopyn, which sleeps four, and costs from £346-£707 for a week.
Powerless to resist: a no-tech break on the Isle of Wight 2011
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The rise of electric light and internal combustion had turned their world into a noisy, reeking travesty of the gas-lit, horse-drawn world they grew up in.
What’s The Fuss About Episodic Fiction? « Tales from the Reading Room 2009
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The lights had gone out, but there were still a few gas-lit burners going.
Starcraft II: Devils’ Due Christie Golden 2011
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“With one-and-a-half bathrooms and a gas-lit corner fireplace in the living room, it is large enough for a family of four to stay for 12 days until the Obamas move into Blair House on Pennsylvania Avenue just across from the White House.”
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“With one-and-a-half bathrooms and a gas-lit corner fireplace in the living room, it is large enough for a family of four to stay for 12 days until the Obamas move into Blair House on Pennsylvania Avenue just across from the White House.”
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I imagined hearing it recited in a flickeringly gas-lit auditorium by Sir Henry Irving, the actor who once reduced Bram Stoker to a state of collapse with his rendition of "The Dream of Eugene Aram".
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With one-and-a-half bathrooms and a gas-lit corner fireplace in the living room, it is large enough for a family of four to stay for 12 days until the Obamas move into Blair House on Pennsylvania Avenue just across from the White House.
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With one-and-a-half bathrooms and a gas-lit corner fireplace in the living room, it is large enough for a family of four to stay for 12 days until the Obamas move into Blair House on Pennsylvania Avenue just across from the White House.
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