rock oil
Example Sentences
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But by fracking the rock, oil flowed from the shale.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 2014
Both Townsend and Drake would have died richer men had they never heard of the Pennsylvania rock oil.
From Inventors by Philip Gengembre Hubert
Then came the great discovery of rock oil, which rapidly superseded the whale oil of commerce in general use.
From Equatorial America Descriptive of a Visit to St. Thomas, Martinique, Barbadoes, and the Principal Capitals of South America by Maturin Murray Ballou
From such processes the so-called hydrocarbons, rock oil and natural gas, have accumulated.
From Earth and Sky Every Child Should Know Easy studies of the earth and the stars for any time and place by Julia Ellen Rogers
Girl in Tranquilla convent that nun told me liked to smell rock oil.
From Ulysses by James Joyce
