10 examples of candle-power in sentences

Then arm and arm up the million-candle-power flare of Broadway, content, these two who had never seen a lake reflect a moon, or a slim fir pointing to a star, that life could be so manifold.

The dinner-hour descends glitteringly upon West Forty-seventh Street, its solid rows of long, lanky hotels, actors' clubs, and sixty-cent tables d'hôte adding each its candle-power.

She leaned forward and caressed Lanyard's hand with sisterly warmth, in her admiration and gratification loosing upon him the full candle-power of the violet eyes in their most disastrous smile.

He turned out all the lights, save one shaded lamp of low candle-power in the cabin; then he did the same in the room where the girl was.

Upon the antique writing-desk that housed the safe burned a single lamp of low candle-power.

THE PHEASANT-HEN And the Great Bubo? THE BLACKBIRD Just two ten-candle-power lamps, to be turned on and off with a switch,crick-crack!

If poverty steps behind you and claps the occulting bushel over your thirty thousand candle-power luminary, your brilliancy is apt to be obscured.

I experienced innumerable tense moments when my horseas frequently happenedtook me for a bit of a circular tour in an adjacent field, so as to avoid some colossal motor lorry with one headlight of about a million candle-power, which would suddenly roar its way down our single narrow road.

I do not know their candle-power, but Mr. Hazard exaggerates little if at all in the matter of their brilliancy.

I declare, a man living here ought to attain a high candle-power of luminosity.

10 examples of  candle-power  in sentences