They are globes of gases and vapors so hot as to be practically self luminous.
"Lectures in Navigation"
Ernest Gallaudet Draper
On the third landing the man paused, and after examining the number on the key, turned to the left, and slouching past three or four doors, finally unlocked one and preceded Woburn into a room lit only by the upward gleam of the electric globes in the street below.
"The Greater Inclination"
Edith Wharton
He sat thus for a long time, his elbows on the table, his chin between his hands, till at length the contemplation of the abandoned sidewalks, above which the electric globes kept Stylites-like vigil, became intolerable to him, and he drew down the window-shade, and lit the gas-fixture beside the dressing-table.
"The Greater Inclination"
Edith Wharton