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Meanings of oily smoke in English

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Usage of oily smoke in English
1
There was a horrible sizzling, a smell of oily smoke and steam.
Three ways to capsize a boat: an optimist afloat
2
Through the oily smoke, a thin figure rose among the debris, wobbly, unsteady.
Map of bones
3
Motionless trucks-silenttanks, wisps of oily smoke still rising from their shattered hulks.
Dogs of war
4
Enormous gouts of flame were towering upward, topped by thick, black, oily smoke.
Duel
5
The reek of incense and oily smoke from the braziers lingered in my nostrils.
Drood: a novel
6
They boil kettles of food over fires that roll off oily smoke like squid-ink billows.
Iron Council
7
The grayness enveloping Bryce's mind grew thicker, until it seemed like a cold, oily smoke.
Phantoms
8
The air around the Edenists turned impenetrably black, flowing like oily smoke around their bodies.
The Reality Dysfunction
9
A thin column of black, oily smoke rose from somewhere near the bottom of the heap.
Code Three
10
Now great gray masses of oily smoke ballooned upward, drifting away to leeward before the gale.
Navy Boys Behind the Big Guns; Or, Sinking the German U-Boats
11
The oily smoke from the explosions blotted out the sun, turning the desert day into twilight.
The marks of cain
12
An insinuation of russet light and oily smoke.
Perdido Street Station
13
Amy and Angus were upwind of the thick oily smoke issued by the dead, crackling branches.
The marks of cain
14
It stabs oily smoke, and the railroad cut and the people on it, yards away, bloom.
Iron Council
15
The rain-streaked sky above the brown expanse of the water filled with a black, oily smoke.
Mutated
16
They were soaked in petrol and oily smoke was rising from them....
Now It Can Be Told
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United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Common