These consist of groups of minute pouches lined with cells producing an oily material which serves to oil the hair and keep the skin moist and pliant.

The surface is continually casting off perspiration, oily material, and dead scales.

If this be not thoroughly done, the oily secretion holds the particles of waste substances to the surface of the body, while dust and dirt collect, and form a layer upon the skin.

The almond-tree, {104} with its flat stages of large smooth leaves, and oily eatable seeds in an almond-like husk, is not an almond at all, or any kin thereto.

He had brought home also several Guacharos from the Trinidad caves, all of which died on the passage, for want, seemingly, of the oily nuts on which they feed.

The oleaginous group comprises all oily matters, which are even purer hydro-carbons than the first-mentioned class.

" "And you make your own fires and bring in your own oily lamps; or do your evening guests assist you perhaps in lieu of the servants?"

The pools in general are bedded with black mud, and creamed over with oily flakes which may proceed from the tar on the vessels' sides, and may also from "decomposing animal matter," as we euphemise it now-a-days.

When the tide had risen and flowed past, oily smooth, under the full moon, the windlass began to rattle and the cable clanged.

" There was a deeply injured note in Oily Dave's tone now.

But then, to her surprise, Mrs. Jenkin burst out excitedly: "You surely haven't been putting any belief in that story that Oily Dave has been going round with this morning?" "Isn't it true?" faltered Katherine; then, feeling suddenly weak, she dropped into the nearest seat, and tried to keep her lips from quivering.

But that was when Oily Dave was in power here.

Then she hesitated, turned very red in the face, and burst into impetuous speech: "I knew Stee was in danger that night last winter when he and Oily Dave went through the snow to steal goods from your cache, and the wolves set upon them.

But never a word had come from across the waste of grey, heaving waters, to let the anxious watchers at Seal Cove know whether the Mary still lived, or whether her crew had really gone to the bottom from the little boat which Oily Dave and his mates had found floating keel upwards.

This was the question which had ceaselessly tortured Katherine through the days and nights since Oily Dave had brought the bad news about the Mary.

"We have had a very easy and prosperous time, though, unfortunately, we lost one of our boats on the way outthe boat picked up by Oily Dave, which has made all the trouble.

"Do you mean to ask Oily Dave, Bobby Poole, and all that lot?"

"But Oily Dave" she began, then stopped as if she had no words adequate to the expression of her feelings.

But perhaps if he had not fastened me in, to drown like a rat in a hole, you would not have come to rescue me; and as that fact so much out-balances the other, why, I feel rather in Oily Dave's debt than otherwise.

I believe Oily Dave possesses a 'top' hat, and that will be certain to appear.

The oily water shimmered in smooth heavings as the clumsy boat advanced upon it.

Except for the ripples spread by their wake, the water laid oily smooth.

Cunning, intrigue, the oily tongue, have, through extended and powerful conspiracies, brought the resources of society under the control of the few, who stood aloof from his homely toil.

All the mental energies are crushed beneath the oily mass.

He was round, and fat, and oily, as one of his own "duff" puddings.