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Meanings of whale oil in English
Synonyms
Examples for "train oil"
Examples for "train oil"
1
The Greenlander detests turtle soup as much as we abominate train oil.
2
One is often asked whether seal's flesh does not taste of train oil.
3
She has had one dose of the cod-liver oil; it smells and tastes like train oil.
4
We all know how they live upon whales, and have rare old vintages of prime old train oil.
5
It weakens you: it turns you into train oil: it is the doctor's friend, and the sick man's bane.
Usage of whale oil in English
1
Before the discovery of petroleum, whale oil was generally used for lighting.
2
The whale oil soap spray is the one to use.
3
Thence a large number of ships sail annually for Europe laden with whale oil.
4
But you can't measure everything in barrels of whale oil.
5
We have no use for whale oil on this ship.
6
They built and outfitted vessels, owned wharves and storehouses, made candles and sold whale oil.
7
Germany was a huge purchaser of Norwegian whale oil.
8
Those States, as you know, depended before the war chiefly on their whale oil and fish.
9
As a boy, I blithely ate Stork margarine, unaware that I was munching on whale oil.
10
I knew that, before the day of mineral oil-kerosene-peopleusedwhale oil almost altogether for lamps.
11
We do not need whale oil so much, because we have kerosene, gaslights, and electric lights.
12
What will they do with the whale oil?
13
Ice-bleached bones and sled tracks, dog fur and slicks of green whale oil pitted the path.
14
Marble mermaids lit the way as Davos climbed, bowls of burning whale oil cradled in their arms.
15
This is whale oil- anauseoussmelling compound.
16
Cetearyl alcohol This stuff was originally created by a chemical reaction between whale oil and cow fat.
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