"Well-lighted" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... I found myself following Mr. John along a darkish passage to a well-lighted apartment, divided by a ground-glass partition from an office in which I saw perhaps eight or ten clerks ...
— The Record of Nicholas Freydon - An Autobiography • A. J. (Alec John) Dawson
... will perhaps more clearly demonstrate the relation of the different constituents. The lower portion (Fig. a) represents a section of the glass plate or support, the collodion film (Fig. b) having upon its surface a thin layer of bromo-iodine silver (Fig. c), which, when exposed to a well-lighted image, as in a camera, changes into different gradations of sub-bromide and sub-iodide, as indicated by irregular, dark masses in the film. The dotted marks immediately above these are intended for the silver ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 288 - July 9, 1881 • Various
... and I remembered that since breakfast I had taken nothing. I was now in the Strand, and, glancing about, I perceived that I was close by an hotel, which bore over the door the somewhat remarkable name of Holy Lands. Without a moment's hesitation I entered a well-lighted passage, and, turning to the left, I found myself in a well-lighted coffee-room, with a well-dressed and frizzled waiter before me, 'Bring me some claret,' said I, for I was rather faint than hungry, and I felt ashamed ...
— Lavengro - The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest • George Borrow
... Paris, on which mills formerly stood. These narrow streets, dark and muddy, where such industries are carried on as care little for appearances wear at night an aspect of mystery full of contrasts. On coming from the well-lighted regions of the Rue Saint-Honore, the Rue Neuve-des-Petits-Champs, and the Rue de Richelieu, where the crowd is constantly pushing, where glitter the masterpieces of industry, fashion, and art, every man to whom Paris by night is unknown would feel a sense of dread and melancholy, ...
— Scenes from a Courtesan's Life • Honore de Balzac
... himself, and by instinct, Parent went in the direction of the broad, well-lighted, populous streets. The light and the crowd attracted him, occupied his mind and distracted his thoughts, and when he was tired of walking aimlessly about amongst the moving crowd, when he saw the foot passengers becoming more ...
— The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume II (of 8) • Guy de Maupassant
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