Citations:unlightable

English citations of unlightable

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• 1848, James Sherman, An Exposition upon the Second Epistle General of St. Peter, London: Henry G. Bohn, revised and corrected edition of original by Thomas Adams, “Verse 19”, page 195:

  That horror hath in it two things, “weeping, and gnashing of teeth,” Matt. viii. 12. Weeping proceeds from heat, gnashing of teeth from coldness. This is a strange compound; unquenchable fire, unlightable darkness! But how then shall they know one another in hell? If there be any light, it shall be a glimpse to aggravate torment; as the sight of their partners in sin, to be partakers in punishment.

• 1887 May 20, “Ypzneml; or, Mysterious Musmet”, in The Harvard Lampoon (2nd Series), volume 13, number 6, Cambridge, page 56:

  While they were consulting as to where they should get a crab-net, Dick appeared, vainly trying to light a cigar which he had just won by matching with Old Grampus. ¶ The object of their trip was explained to him, and giving his unlightable cigar to Rhinestone, who was standing by, he readily agreed to accompany them.

• 1897 June 5, “Exasperation! (A Screed from Paris.)”, in Punch, or the London Charivari, volume 112, London, page 265:

  O futile product of a foreign clime, / Unspeakable, unstrikable, unlightable; / I use you up by dozens at a time, / Impossible, intractable, indictable! / Take then this tribute of a wrathful rhyme— / Ne'er shall I smoke with you the peaceful calumet! / They charge ten centimes with a cheek sublime / For box of thirty miserable allumettes!

• 1901 October 19, Pierre Bardot, Gas-Lighting Attachment‎^[1], US Patent 752,021, page 1, lines 67–70:

  Should the incandescent burner be damaged and unlightable, use will be made of the auxiliary burner d, for the lighting of which the operation is as follows: […]

• 1920 December 4, W. M. Robinson, “Rear Lamps on Bicycles [Letter to the Editor]”, in The New Statesman, volume 16, number 399, London, page 262:

  On the other hand, it is obvious that, with “universal” rear lighting in operation, the position of pedestrians, cattle, dogs, and all other forms of unlighted and unlightable traffic using the roads at night (with which motorists will always have to reckon), will be perilous in the extreme.

• 1922 September 16, W. P. Cook, “An Ill-Considered and Anomalous Lighting Bill [Letter to the Editor]”, in Country Life, volume 52, number 1341, London, page 355:

  The moment you advocate tail lamps on all vehicles you are up against an impossibility in the case of hand-propelled vehicles like push chairs, handcarts and bassinettes, and you are bound to ignore the position of the unlightable pedestrian, the fact being that there is a good deal of unlightable traffic on the roads at night, and the only solution of the lighting problem was long ago laid down by “Kuklos” in the Daily News, in which he gave the golden rule that no vehicle should travel at such a pace as would prevent the driver from pulling up within a radius of the view provided by his own headlights, […]

• 1941 June 3, H. C. Whitehurst, “Channelizing Intersections; Pedestrian Islands”, in Hearings Before the Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, Seventy-Seventh Congress, Second Session on the First Deficiency Appropriation Bill for 1942, Washington, [DC]: U.S. Government Printing Office, published 1942, page 760:

  If it had been normally laid out, it would have been some 600 feet across that intersection–absolutely uncontrollable by lights. ¶ We have done the same thing at Eleventh and Vermont and Twelfth and Vermont, and at Park Road and Sherman Avenue; and there are still some 30 intersections of that character left that are dangerous points of congestion, and many of them are unlightable.

• 1996 November 13, Herman W. Jansen, Jr., Portable Fused Campfire‎^[2], US Patent 5,743,248, column 1, lines 39–42:

  If the Pratt device is carried over a distance when it is raining, or if the device is set in the snow, the paper starter fuel used to light the device may become damp and unlightable.

• 2012 October 26, Shiro Shirai, Ken Sato, Hiroyasu Sano, Control System for Controlling a Load via Power-Line Communications‎^[3], US Patent US 9,480,117 B2, column 13, lines 55–62:

  When both user codes do not match, the LED lamp 3a is turned to an unlightable state. That is, when both user codes do not match, the control part 20 of the LED lamp 3a blocks the current to the LED modules U8 and U9 and does not make the LED element in the inside emit light. This state is held until the control signal including the user code that matches the user code registered in the LED lamp itself is transmitted.