"Turned on" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... As she turned on both faucets in the bowl in the small dressing-room adjoining, a thick scum rose to the surface of the water, and she realized the bowl had not been washed for some time. At first she gazed at the dust helplessly. Utterly unused to doing anything for herself, ...
— Elsie Marley, Honey • Joslyn Gray
... sitting in a chamber whose one large window overlooked the Place Vendome. M. Dorine, with his back half turned on the other two occupants of the apartment, was reading the Moniteur, pausing from time to time to wipe his glasses, and taking scrupulous pains not to glance towards the lounge at his right, on which were seated ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 117, July, 1867. • Various
... comic picture, all the lights in the theater were turned on and a gentleman stepped on the stage to ...
— The Rover Boys on a Hunt - or The Mysterious House in the Woods • Arthur M. Winfield (Edward Stratemeyer)
... however, were soon to be turned on her, for Giovanna, who had long despaired of providing an heir to her husband, gave birth a few months later to a male child. Florence was jubilant, for the Grand Duchess was as beloved as her rival was detested; and the christening of the heir was made the ...
— Love affairs of the Courts of Europe • Thornton Hall
... began to clear. Rising, she turned on the electric light, and then, reseating herself, remarked with an aspect ...
— The Golden Slipper • Anna Katharine Green
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