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
Girl in Tranquilla convent that nun told me liked to smell rock oil.
From Ulysses by James Joyce
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 Burton Jesse Hendrick
His words are:— “Petroleum, rock oil, or what the Welsh call it, Ymenin tylwyth têg, or Fairies’ butter, has been found in the lime stone strata in our mineral country.
From Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales by Elias Owen
The gold mines of California and of Australia are too well known to require mention; but we must not forget the rock oil, concealed for ages in the North American continent.
From The Mines and its Wonders by William Henry Giles Kingston
