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

In the late fifties Mr. George H. Bissell had become interested in rock oil, not as an embrocation and as a cure for most human ills, but as a light-giving material.

From The Age of Big Business; a chronicle of the captains of industry by Hendrick, Burton Jesse

His report was so favorable that a company was formed, which leased all the land along Oil Creek upon which were traces of the new rock oil.

From Inventors by Hubert, Philip Gengembre

I was hidden in cheap pink paper that smelt of rock oil.

From Ulysses by Joyce, James

Both Townsend and Drake would have died richer men had they never heard of the Pennsylvania rock oil.

From Inventors by Hubert, Philip Gengembre