Citations:lightable

English citations of lightable

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• 1868 December 8, “Miscellaneous News: Oriental Gas Company, Limited”, in The Journal of Gas Lighting, Water Supply, & Sanitary Improvement, volume 17, number 421, London, page 874:

  The Chairman, after referring to the satisfactory nature of the report, said: I may mention that not one-tenth of the lightable houses in Calcutta are at present lighted with gas; in fact, I believe I should be within the mark if I were to say not one-twentieth.

• 1872, William Morrison Bell, Other Countries, volume 2, London: Chapman & Hall, page 311:

  In that excursion, too, we visited the burning spring—a curious spectacle. Burning water; not always lit, but always lightable. Sulphuretted hydrogen, I read.

• 1886, Notes on the Plan of Franklin Park and Related Matters, City of Boston, Park Department, page 51:

  Also that a considerable space of ground should be open for pleasure use after daylight; that this space should be lightable in such a manner that no part of it will be in dark shadow, and to this end that it should be free from underwood, low-headed trees or other conditions offering facilities for concealment.

• 1904 October Term, Andrew B. Duvall, Edward H. Thomas (attorneys), Supreme Court of the United States; No. 62; Abraham Wolff, Plaintiff in Error, v. the District of Columbia; Brief for District of Columbia, Washington, DC: Judd & Detweiler, Statement of the Case, page 9:

  Indeed, Sunday night was and is the night on which this club-house was most patronized, and “every Sunday evening” it was the practice “to light up everything that was ‘lightable’”, and “when all the lights are lit it is absolutely impossible not to see that stone when you are on the top of the steps or coming down” them.