Oil obtained from the blubber of various species of whales.
1The Greenlander detests turtle soup as much as we abominate train oil.
2One is often asked whether seal's flesh does not taste of train oil.
3She has had one dose of the cod-liver oil; it smells and tastes like train oil.
4We all know how they live upon whales, and have rare old vintages of prime old train oil.
5It weakens you: it turns you into train oil: it is the doctor's friend, and the sick man's bane.
6A puff of red-hot air flavoured with lemon peelings, soft-coal smoke and train oil came in through the half-open windows.
7Certainly it cannot be olive oil, nor macassar oil, nor castor oil, nor bear's oil, nor train oil, nor cod-liver oil.
8The eggs of the loom are palatable, and the flesh is excellent, though not quite free from the flavour of train oil.
9If the beast affected is full grown, administer one English pint of train oil, and smaller doses in proportion to the age.
10The worst part of the business was when we were nearly starving and had to live on rotten yams and train oil.
11So the mollys took Tom up on their backs, and flew off with him, laughing and joking-andoh, how they did smell of train oil!
12The 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.
13'Why, make train oil, to be sure,' said Ernest.
14"That will help to keep life in us; though train oil was never much to my fancy."
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