4988 examples of oil in sentences

Instead of the ship, the camel, and the ass, we now have the ocean freighter or liner, and the flying train of cars: new forces, oil, steam, electricity, and water-power, do the carrying work of man.

In the act of opening, it was made to crush certain berries, and the oil they yielded, was carried by a small duct to the hinge, which was thus made to turn easily, and was prevented from creaking.

"But stop here a moment," said our host, "till I go to see how my last improved oil-cake is relished by my cattle.

Then fry 1 chopped onion in 2 tablespoonfuls of olive-oil; add the lentils and 1 cup of cooked rice and 1 tablespoonful of butter.

"If a little hair-oil and powder does come off upon my coat, the latter will wash, I suppose.

Their solemn, intent faces were lit grotesquely by the uncertain glow of two seal-oil lamps, mounted on two posts, planted one in front of the right sleeping-bench, the other on the left.

More grunts, and room made for the visitor on the sleeping-bench next the post that supported one of the lamps, a clay saucer half-full of seal-oil, in which a burning wick of twisted moss gave forth a powerful odour, a fair amount of smoke, and a faint light.

He jerked his loosely-jointed body over to the sick man, lifted the seal-oil lamp with his shaky old hands, and looked at the patient long and steadily.

Nicholas got up, dazed but obedient, and lit the seal-oil lamp.

He sat monologuing under the seal lamp till the Boy longed to throw the dish of smouldering oil at his head.

But the necessity of keeping dust out of the machinery, the inconvenience of having flying ends carried toward it, closed every window in the big factory, and the operatives gasped in the early heat, the odour of oil, the exhausted air.

"Lamp oil is mighty rousin' to them as late like he's doin'.

I 'low that a little dosin' of lamp oil never hurt

It's possible he didn't wait until she warmed the oil.

If looked as if the oil was not vaporizing properly and the lamp was going out.

Burning oil splashed around him, a pillar of fire rushed up, and when a whistle screamed he let go the valve and turned from the blinding dust.

Naow, ef I hear one word about this 'tarnal foolishness comin' to Angy's ears, or Brother Abe's, or Blossy's either, fer that matter, we'll all have to eat off'n oil-cloth Sundays, the same as weekdays, until I see a more Christian sperit in the house.

The roadway of this bridge was supported on the enormous jars used for storing oil and wine, numbers of which were easily collected in the suburbs of Galata.

The headquarters of their wholesale trade | | is at the old Broadway and Grand street store, while their | | stock of carpets and oil-cloths is mainly limited to the | | Grand and Chrystie street establishment.

To the picture of Our Lady of Kazan they were ever ready to burn wax and oil; to truth and justice they constantly omitted the tribute of mere common honesty.

And Nausicaa brought from her chamber all her vestments, and laid them up in the coach, and her mother placed bread and wine in the coach, and oil in a golden cruse, to soften the bright skins of Nausicaa and her maids when they came out of the river.

2402 Nurse, Wet, abstinence from improper food 2411 Age of the 2439 Diet of the 2442 General remarks on the 2435-8 Health and morality of the 2440 Spirits, wines, and narcotics to be avoided 2443 Nutmeg, the 378 Nuts, dish of 1599 hazel and filbert 1599 Olive and olive oil 506 Omelet, au Thon 1494 Aux confitures, or jam omelet 1460 Bachelor's 1462 Ham 1457 Kidney 1458 Plain, sweet 1459 Soufflé 1461

The spring is the usual period set apart for house-cleaning, and removing all the dust and dirt, which will necessarily, with the best of housewives, accumulate during the winter months, from the smoke of the coal, oil, gas, &c.

Electrification is essentially completed, and heavy industries, such as fertilizer and assembly plants and oil refineries, now exist.

Sinkiang is of great importance to Communist China as the site of large sources of oil and of atomic industries and testing grounds.

4988 examples of  oil  in sentences