Word: blazes
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...present state of things is a marked change from what it was two years ago. Then, it is true, the gas burned in the entries till only half past ten; but a full blaze could be got at any part of the night in the basements. Now the brightest light in many of the buildings is only a glimmer, that hardly serves to make the darkness visible...