Oil obtained from the blubber of various species of whales.
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Examples for "train oil"
Examples for "train oil"
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.
1Before the discovery of petroleum, whale oil was generally used for lighting.
2The whale oil soap spray is the one to use.
3Thence a large number of ships sail annually for Europe laden with whale oil.
4But you can't measure everything in barrels of whale oil.
5We have no use for whale oil on this ship.
6They built and outfitted vessels, owned wharves and storehouses, made candles and sold whale oil.
7Germany was a huge purchaser of Norwegian whale oil.
8Those States, as you know, depended before the war chiefly on their whale oil and fish.
9As a boy, I blithely ate Stork margarine, unaware that I was munching on whale oil.
10I knew that, before the day of mineral oil-kerosene-peopleusedwhale oil almost altogether for lamps.
11We do not need whale oil so much, because we have kerosene, gaslights, and electric lights.
12What will they do with the whale oil?
13Ice-bleached bones and sled tracks, dog fur and slicks of green whale oil pitted the path.
14Marble mermaids lit the way as Davos climbed, bowls of burning whale oil cradled in their arms.
15This is whale oil- anauseoussmelling compound.
16Cetearyl alcohol This stuff was originally created by a chemical reaction between whale oil and cow fat.
Translations for whale oil