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Sentences ending with oil

And how fair were the visions that rose before her young fancy as she broke off one piece after another and hastily eat them after slightly moistening them with the fresh oil. [10]
The latter are used for fuel, and the former are pressed for their oil. [4]
As it disappeared under our bows I held my breath; but we slid over it like oil. [5]
Others again, opening the white-hot furnace-doors, cast fuel on the flames, which came rushing and roaring forth to meet it, and licked it up like oil. [12]
When, returning from such an excursion, he stretched himself again on his couch, the old woman, pointing to the hanging-lamp which the impatient creature often knocked with his head, would call out, "Euphorion, mind the oil. [10]
The senator had provided him with a lamp and oil. [10]
He dropped the pan of tar and oil. [11]
She has had one dose of the cod-liver oil; it smells and tastes like train oil. [14]
This gave me new light; I took his advice, got over my shyness, and my speech flowed like oil. [10]
This fellow had money, too, and hair oil. [5]

Short sentences using oil

It would run like oil. [4]
Rank b'ar's oil! [9]

Sentences containing oil two or more times

She takes the cod-liver oil and carbonate of iron regularly; she finds them both nauseous, but especially the oil. [14]

More example sentences with the word oil in them

Fusel oil, labelled whiskey," she explained, succinctly. [9]
But the thing which clean broke my heart was something which happened in front of our old barrack in a square, while we were enduring the spectacle of a man being boiled to death in oil for counterfeiting pennies. [5]
In the roof were two oil lamps which gave a light strong enough to read by; each had a green-cloth attachment by which it could be covered when the light should be no longer needed. [5]
The sand was very hot and white, and the waters of the Chesapeake rolled like oil under the July sun. [9]
Numerous lamps of various and singular shapes, filled with Kiki oil, hung against the walls. [10]
Here died Jan van Eyck, the father of oil painting; and here, in the hospital of St. John, are the most celebrated pictures of Hans Memling. [4]
Nothing promising occurred, until one night at the Murray Hill Hotel he was introduced by Dr. Clarence C. Rice to Henry H. Rogers, of the Standard Oil group of financiers. [5]
Presently, from the top of the hill, they looked down upon the long line of little homes lying along the banks of the river like peaceful watchmen in a pleasant land, with corn and wine and oil at hand. [11]
I'm not trying to limit their generosity--indeed no, they may pile that Standard Oil, Helen Keller College Fund as high as they please, they have my consent. [5]
Now in order to get the flask, a most ancient ceremonial had to be gone through with; otherwise the Abb, of St. Remi, hereditary guardian in perpetuity of the oil, would not deliver it. [5]
This trade grew to be so formidable that Italy was obliged to put a prohibitory impost upon it to keep it from working serious injury to her oil industry. [5]
You know, when they sink a well," he went on to the company, "they can't always most generally sometimes tell whether they're goin' to get gas or oil or salt water. [8]
We turn out the whole thing--clean from the word go--in our factory in New Orleans: labels, bottles, oil, everything. [5]
I shall remember the Transfiguration partly because it was placed in a room almost by itself; partly because it is acknowledged by all to be the first oil painting in the world; and partly because it was wonderfully beautiful. [5]
Only one of the three little vessels filled with oil that hung from it was burning. [10]
I really believe the scamp has been putting perfumed oil on his curly head. [10]
The flask, with the oil in it, was brought down from heaven by a dove. [5]
In reply to the house-keeper's excited questions, he related that Protarch had sold his master's oil at Messina for as high a price as his own, bought two new horses for his neighbor Cleon, and sent Mopsus himself forward with them. [10]
She perseveres with the cod-liver oil, but still finds it very nauseous. [14]
Underneath it, at the back of the altar, an oil light is always burning; and below repose the bones of the holy man. [4]
He was smoking the "humbliest" pipe I ever saw--a dingy, funnel-shaped, red-clay thing, streaked and grimed with oil and tears of tobacco, and with all the different kinds of dirt there are, and thirty per cent. [5]
Who can realize that never again that majestic form shall rise in the council-chambers of his country to beat back the storms of anarchy which may threaten, or pour the oil of peace upon the troubled billows as they rage and menace around! [7]
It was then that Mr. Plimpton gathered courage to pour oil on the waters. [9]
Can you believe that in all Spain there is no fresh butter to be had, either for bread or in the kitchen for roast meat, but instead rancid oil, which we should think just fit for burning? [10]
After this another surgeon was called, who gave him oil of anise-seed and wine, "which increased his suffering. [3]
His powerful and supple limbs shone with oil, applied in the gymnasium of Timagetes, the scene of his frequent triumphs in all the sports and exercises of the youthful Greeks. [10]
But the old squire had plenty of good hunters in the stables, and haunches on the board, and a cellar that was like the widow's cruse of oil, or barrel of meal--or whatever she had. [9]
Castine was mixing some tar and oil in a pan by the fire, to apply to the still bleeding wounds of his Michael. [11]
Then she took some fresh flour and oil, and thrust them inside the bedroom door where Charley now sat clinching his hands and fighting down the pain. [11]
Nothing but a small oil lamp was burning there. [10]
He could not sleep that night for fear his patients who had not been scalded with the boiling oil would be poisoned by the gunpowder conveyed into their wounds by the balls. [3]
He's grasped the situation, and though he'd like to have Tripple boiled in oil, he doesn't want broken heads and bloodshed. [11]
It had never shone so brightly as on the night when Vigon struck oil on O'Ryan's ranch. [11]
On board the ship they were betting on the run of the ship, betting a couple of shillings, or half a crown, and they proposed that this youth from the oil regions should bet on the run of the ship. [5]
How often had she flown hither from her home near at hand to pour oil on the altar of the god of healing--to make some small offering and find comfort in prayer! [10]
She took the scarf off gently, soaked it in oil and splashed it with flour, and laid it quickly back on the burnt flesh. [11]
You would have said there can be no lamp without oil or gas, or other combustible substance, to feed it; and yet you see a filament which sheds a light like that of noon all around it, and does not waste at all. [6]
Terry O'Ryan had really struck oil, and his ranch was a scene of decent revelry, of which Gow Johnson was master. [11]
Starting with the Railway Systems, Steamer Lines, Standard Oil, Ocean Cables, Diluted Telegraph, and all the rest, and winding up with Klondike, De Beers, Tammany Graft, and Shady Privileges in the Post-office Department. [5]
A rattling blast procures silence: in a moment it is as though oil were poured on a surging sea. [10]
At last his precious oil gave out, and he used instead an insignificant mixture of his own contrivance. [3]
I've turned it over twice; once in oil and once in wheat. [5]
I would tear out his fingernails, pierce his eyes, burn him with hot irons, pour boiling oil over him and red cinders down his throat--if he were your brother. [11]
Gold, coal, iron, oil, he searched for them everywhere, making sure that sooner or later he would find them. [11]
The Government furnishes oil, and pays ten or fifteen dollars a month for the lighting and tending. [5]
Window shades, of oil stuff, with milk-maids and ruined castles stenciled on them in fierce colors. [5]
That will pour oil on the flames, and they must blaze up high; I'd stake both my hands on it, much as I need them. [10]
Fruit and fragrant oil could be had here at any hour of the night. [10]
At any rate, oil and other things rise to the surface of the sea, and the Germans are minus another submarine. [9]
When a man's offered a big price for his farm, he don't care whether it's by a secret emissary from the Standard Oil or not; he's going to sell and get the better of the other fellow if he can. [8]
Two hundred jars of shining oil were standing in the storehouses a week ago. [10]
How many jars of oil might be had from the fruit that has dropped on the ground alone! [10]
He felt sure of finding his son without her, for one of Magadon's people had often carried bread and oil to old Serapion and knew his cave. [10]
The olives are not yet pressed, and the old oil is getting toward the dregs. [10]
This oil was not earthly oil; it was made in heaven; the flask also. [5]
But as the niche was illumined only by the tiny oil lamp burning beneath the image of the Virgin, bedizened with flowers and gold and silver tinsel, fastened against the wall, Biberli asked the weary bar-maid for a brighter light. [10]
Not that I needed them, for I don't think I did; it was for economy; my father took a drug-store for a debt, and it made cod-liver oil cheaper than the other breakfast foods. [5]
Milk, water, whisky, molasses, castor oil, camphene, carbolic acid--it is no use to go into particulars; whatever fluid occurs to you set it down. [5]
Now a good map--" "Is it peradventure that manner of thing which of late the unbelievers have brought from over the great seas, which, being boiled in oil, and an onion and salt added thereto, doth--" "What, a map? [5]
I know a man--a prominent man --who has written a book that will go like wildfire; a book that arraigns the Standard Oil fiends, and gives them unmitigated hell, individual by individual. [5]
For instance, they make olive-oil out of cotton-seed oil, nowadays, so that you can't tell them apart. [5]
Edith made a little calculation that on a flush average of ninety cents a week earned, and allowing so many cents for coal and so many cents for oil, the margin for bread and tea must be small for the month. [4]
The rooms were lighted by oil lamps and candles, while the servants burned tallow-dips. [10]
True, a dim light pervaded the whole apartment, and Sister Hildegard, referring to it, added "The light keeps many of the patients awake, and we have a better use for the pennies which the oil and chips cost. [10]
They are like lamps with half their wicks picked down, and will continue to burn when other lamps have used up all their oil. [6]
None of the king's officials had ever used such a galley, not even the epistrategus of the Delta, who last year had given the banking and the oil trade to new lessees. [10]
Sagacious people shipped it to Italy, doctored it, labeled it, and brought it back as olive oil. [5]
She hastily put it out with a pair of tongs that hung by a chain, and then after pouring fresh oil into the lamp that was still burning she carried the light into her father's sleeping room. [10]
The situation, when it came, was even more difficult than Hodder had imagined it, since McCrae was not a man to oil the wheels of conversation. [9]
An overdressed woman is not so pleasing as she might be, but at any rate she is better than the oil of vitriol squirter, whose profession it is to teach young ladies to avoid vanity by spoiling their showy silks and satins. [6]
Manners, long tried in such occasions, was about to pour oil on the waters. [9]
This pursuit brought in money, which was put to an excellent use by the old man, who offered sacrifices to his own comfort at the cook-shop, and enjoyed fish fried in oil with his Zamora wine. [10]
He was clothed in linseed oil and raw cotton to his waist, and resembled nothing human. [5]
We burn oil in lamps, and grease door-hinges with it, when they creak, but the Italians use it to fry chickens and fish. [10]
I remembered that in America, many centuries later, when an oil well ceased to flow, they used to blast it out with a dynamite torpedo. [5]
I noticed several immense caldron kettles of boiling oil, upon the rims of which little devils sat, with pitchforks in hand, and poked down the helpless victims who floundered in the liquid. [4]
She--" "Well, then, I'll have him boiled in oil. [5]
And so, as I have said, that flask of holy oil was sent for, while we waited. [5]
Later, in Calcutta, I found that the Standard Oil clerks had small one-horse vehicles, and did no walking; and I was told that the clerks of the other large concerns there had the like equipment. [5]
As to this I do not know; I only know it was pulled out, and that the wound was treated with oil and properly dressed. [5]
It was astonishing how many New England clergymen, in the time of the petroleum excitement, took chances in oil. [5]
She had noticed his hands, how thick his fingers were and close together; yet how deftly he had used them, without smearing the cuffs of his silk shirt or the sleeves of his coat with the oil that glistened everywhere. [9]
But no doubt he would have calmed himself at last, as he so often did before, had not some one who desired to pour oil on the flames met him in the fore-court of the palace. [10]
To his surprise, he found them much better than the others the next morning, and resolved never again to burn his patients with hot oil for gun-shot wounds. [3]
The first time he crossed the Atlantic he had just made the first little strike in oil, and he was so young he did not like to ask questions. [5]
The cod-liver oil he considers a peculiarly efficacious medicine. [14]
While he listened, he clawed and strummed on the young man's lyre and poured out the scented oil which Orion had been wont to use to smear it over his beard. [10]
Full be their harvest-bins with corn and oil, To sorrow may their humour be a foil; Quick be their hearts all wise delights to know, Tardy their footsteps to the gate Farewell. [11]
The one Reader's hand may shelter the flame; the one blessed ministering spirit with the vessel of oil may keep it bright in spite of the stream of cold water on the other side doing its best to put it out. [6]
Children and promenaders had sat only yesterday on those benches and, the night before that, oil lamps or gas flames had burned on those lamp-posts. [10]
At first Ann had cast an anxious look at me, then she seemed as though she cared not; but when the oil of roses came to light she took it firmly in her hand to give to me. [10]
The vast ice-hummocks had been his housing, pemmican, the raw flesh of fish, and even the fat and oil of seals had been his food. [11]
It became his habit, as he went out in the morning, to drop into my room for a match, and I returned the compliment by borrowing his coal oil when mine was out. [9]
This great, pure grief had come just at the right time, flowing, like oil upon the storm-lashed waves, over hatred, resentment, and all the passionate emotions by which she had previously been driven to the verge of despair. [10]
Meantime I have got the best and wisest man in the whole Standard Oil group of mufti-millionaires a good deal interested in looking into the type-setter (this is private, don't mention it. [5]
Helena has a good cotton trade; handles from forty to sixty thousand bales annually; she has a large lumber and grain commerce; has a foundry, oil mills, machine shops and wagon factories--in brief has $1,000,000 invested in manufacturing industries. [5]
Protarch himself had gone to Messina, with his own and her father's oil. [10]
My master has gone to Messina, not only to sell our oil and yours, but to speak to the guardian of a wealthy heiress, of whom his brother had written. [10]
When she had gone he began to talk to Janet about the folly, in general, of prohibition, the fuse oil distributed on the sly. [9]
And so we go slowly until we; come to the Oil Mill Tavern, where we have had many a schlager-bout with the aristocrats. [9]

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