"Gas burner" Quotes from Famous Books
... in the bed and stretched out his arms, one aloft, the other behind him, finding with the fingers of this hand the turncock of the gas burner which swung low from the ceiling at the end of a goose-necked iron pipe, finding with the fingers of that hand the wall switch which controlled the battery of electric lights round about, and with a long-drawn sigh of happy deliverance he turned ... — The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various |