"Turned on" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... for the closet, talking from the door as he dressed. Ernest lighted his pipe and listened thoughtfully under the electric light he had turned on. He was a shorter man than Roger and stockily built. He was still very fair, with soft yellow hair already receding from a broad forehead. His eyes were beautiful, a deep violet, soft dreaming eyes that men as well ...
— The Forbidden Trail • Honore Willsie
... strands of yarn, and which showed the supple muscles of his clean-cut thighs, and who had done up an extra high pompadour in white clay, and burnished his knife, which gleamed at his waist, ushered these Washington women into a small apartment adjoining the bath-room, and turned on the inky stream into ...
— Vanished Arizona - Recollections of the Army Life by a New England Woman • Martha Summerhayes
... soon discovered, now that he was once more at the surface, it seemed really impossible for him to sink. He turned on his back and floated like ...
— The Rival Campers Ashore - The Mystery of the Mill • Ruel Perley Smith
... his word. When he saw the gateman examine my ticket and passports and smile pleasantly, he turned on his heel, convinced that there was nothing dangerous about me. He climbed on his horse and galloped away. He might have caused me no end of delay, and time meant everything in a case like mine. Scarcely had I secured a compartment in a first-class carriage than the wheels groaned and the ...
— Arms and the Woman • Harold MacGrath
... innumerable cases, and I wished to suggest the difficulty rather than to express it. It was the twilight of an early Washington winter. The lights in the great library, softened with delicate shades, had been turned on. Outside, Sheridan Circle was almost a thing of beauty in its vague outlines; even the squat, ridiculous bronze horse had a certain dignity in ...
— The Sleuth of St. James's Square • Melville Davisson Post
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