Significats de sperm oil en anglès

By the mid-19th Century, a number of factors reduced demand for sperm oil.

Hurrah for the gold cup of sperm oil, my heroes!

The lantern held a revolving light, with a four-wick Fresnel lamp, burning sperm oil.

Mineral oil is now generally used, as being superior to rape-seed or sperm oil.

The unmanufactured sperm oil possesses a singularly cleansing virtue.

Kindling fire with my best sperm oil!

What then can it possibly be, but sperm oil in its unmanufactured, unpolluted state, the sweetest of all oils?

Black and greasy from hull to spar, she was a pleasant sight, for she was full of sperm oil.

Tubbs was in the After-Guard; a long, lank Vineyarder, eternally talking of line-tubs, Nantucket, sperm oil, stove boats, and Japan.

What then can it possibly be, but the sperm oil in its unmanufactured, unpolluted state, the sweetest of all oils?

As the years passed, whales became more and more scarce, until sperm oil was selling at over two dollars a gallon.

For the inside of the barrel a trace of refined sperm oil is as good as anything, but an excess should be avoided.

He has registered a vow: he will fill his vessel with good sperm oil, or failing to do so, never again strike Yankee soundings.

The product of the whale fishery in that year was 1,485,000 gallons of sperm oil, 2,065,612 gallons of train oil, and 901,000 pounds of whalebone.

Sperm oil was growing more and more dear in price and worthless in quality, and the old-fashioned lamps were reported to be past their usefulness.

"There is sperm oil on the Island of Birds," said he, "in the lighthouse, plenty of it, gallons of it.