animal oil
Example Sentences
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I had filled a bottle with our air, I poured some colourless animal oil into it and closed it tightly.
From Discovery of Oxygen, Part 2 by Scheele, Carl Wilhelm
These physicians consider that these electric sparks are sufficient to ignite the spirituous liquor which may have saturated any organic tissue of the body, the combustion being afterwards fed by animal oil.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)
I poured 2 ounces of colourless and transparent animal oil of Dippel into a bottle and closed it very lightly; after the expiry of two months the oil was thick and black.
From Discovery of Oxygen, Part 2 by Scheele, Carl Wilhelm
Sometimes she made a dressing out of animal oil, beaten to a cream; and it was better than lettuce salad.
From The Sky Line of Spruce by Marshall, Edison
The lamp consists of a crescent-shaped stone with a concavity, in which there is animal oil and a line of crushed moss as a wick.
From My Attainment of the Pole by Cook, Frederick A.
