| 单词 | whale oil |
| 例句 | And no pleasanter light was ever designed, although old timers say that whale oil makes a nicer flame. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Without the hired lamplighters, most of the city’s 662 whale oil streetlamps remained unlit, the surrounding areas cast into a gloomy darkness. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z The moon had already set, but no light flickered in the whale oil lamps that lined High Street. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Granddaddy murmured to me, “Do you realize what this means, Calpurnia? The days of whale oil and coal dust are over. The old century is dying, even as we watch. Remember this day.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z The whale oil lamps stayed on nearly the whole day in the factory, so water buckets were kept filled on every floor. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z George Pocock, meanwhile, began applying a coat of sperm whale oil to the underside of the Husky Clipper. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Marble mermaids lit the way as Davos climbed, bowls of burning whale oil cradled in their arms. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Any message we receive from them is likely to begin "Dear Sire," and congratulate us on the handsomeness of our horses and our mastery of whale oil. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z When Stubb is given his whale steak, he eats it by the light of lanterns filled sperm whale oil. Animal penises’ amazing evolution 2012-06-12T15:40:00Z "This was big business – at the time, whale oil was used all over the world," he said. BBC plans whaling drama based on tale that inspired Moby Dick 2013-04-08T15:02:30Z The army-issued medical manual offers advice on building latrines, soothing blisters with whale oil and providing “moral instruction for the soldier who misses the comforts of the wife.” Review | A med student gets a crash course in battle wounds and PTSD in ‘The Winter Soldier’ 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z But after a few hours spent squinting across a dim parlor illuminated by whale oil, you might want to say, “You know what? There’s this thing now called electricity.” Whatever Happened to Isabel Archer? ‘Mrs. Osmond’ Picks Up Where Henry James Left Off 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z The tables include name of the vessel, its class, tonnage, captain, managing owner, whaling ground, date of sailing and arrival, sperm oil / whale oil / whalebone barrels and pounds. Animal penises’ amazing evolution 2012-06-12T15:40:00Z Read whales for buffalos, and whale oil for mineral oil, and the importance of whaling to the US becomes clear. Thar she blows! Cinema's most spectacular whale hunts 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z Nicholas Shakespeare does Hobart in Tasmania, which once supplied the whale oil that kept Victorian London illuminated and was described as "the cesspit of the Empire". Radio review: from Unknown Cities to Ode To Finchleystrasse 2013-04-20T05:00:11Z Electric lights replaced candles and whale oil, flush toilets replaced outhouses, cars and electric trains replaced horses. The Powers That Were 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z By the 17th century, whale oil powered western civilization, and the North American whaling industry, centred in Massachusetts, was its epicentre. How one man died so a whale might live 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z The name is a Melville reference, of sorts — as whale oil declined as a lighting source in the 1840s, one substitute was lard oil from hogs, or “prairie whales.” 36 Hours in the Berkshires 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z The cull let up briefly when we replaced whale oil with petroleum, but ramped up well beyond its previous capacity with the invention of harpoon launchers and factory ships. How one man died so a whale might live 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z By 1930, 50,000 whales were being killed annually, and in the postwar years, whale oil was a cheap filler, used in everything from margarine to ice cream, fertilizer to soap. How one man died so a whale might live 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z Two whale oil lamps cast a dim light. At new Gettysburg museum, Ken Burns gets a taste of battle he chronicled 2023-03-11T05:00:00Z “It was a tinderbox,” Godfrey said, filled with steam-driven spinning machines that covered the floors with a combustible dust — in rooms lit by windows and candlelight, on machines lubricated by whale oil. Britain saves ‘grandparent’ of all modern skyscrapers, built in 1796 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z The industry was in high demand as Americans had begun to rely on whale oil as fuel for lamps, ingredients for soap, and lubricants for everything from guns to typewriters to machinery. How centuries-old whaling logs are filling gaps in our climate knowledge 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z At some point the mill managers discovered that washing the raw fiber in a mixture of 90 percent water and 10 percent whale oil made raw jute less likely to snag in fast-moving machinery. In Scotland, a city’s world-class industrial past informs its present 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z Demand for whale oil dropped when petroleum, which had begun to supplant it around the mid-19th century, gained popularity. How Tree Rings Helped Identify a Rhode Island Whaler Lost at Sea 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z As a more efficient source of energy, as well as less dangerous to produce, kerosene quickly replaced whale oil in many businesses and homes. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z In the 1870s, petroleum began to replace whale oil as a fuel. The USSR once hunted endangered whales — while its scientists secretly tracked its toll 2022-08-13T04:00:00Z Connecticut farmers raised grain and livestock on eastern Long Island, where they also prepared whale oil, while Hudson Valley farms grew wheat to export as flour. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z "If you go back to the days of whale oil, oil has been a story of boom and bust," said Phil Flynn, senior analyst at Price Futures Group in Chicago. Analysis: Oil's journey from worthless in the pandemic to $100 a barrel 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z By 1840, palm oil was cheap enough to completely replace tallow or whale oil in such products as soap and candles. How palm oil became the world’s most hated, most used fat source 2021-07-04T04:00:00Z The series masterfully connects the past with the present, showing how much has and hasn’t changed since whale oil lamps and horse-drawn buggies were all the rage. How 'Dickinson' perfected its 21st-century love letter to a 19th-century poet 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z Over time we’ve moved from candles, to whale oil and kerosene lamps, to incandescent and fluorescent bulbs, and now to LEDs. Review | An exploration of ‘How Innovation Works’ 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z Incremental improvements in artificial lighting, from whale oil to the incandescent light bulb, were no straightforward march of progress, reveal two new books. Daily briefing: Why cigarette smoking increases the risk of diabetes 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z Incremental improvements, from whale oil to gas, kerosene and electric carbon-arc technology, culminated in 1879 in a practical incandescent light bulb created by prolific US inventor Thomas Edison. Edison and the shadow side of artificial light 2019-10-13T04:00:00Z Palm oil consumption grew as competitors dropped away: first whale oil in the 1960s, then fats like tallow and lard. How palm oil became the world’s most hated, most used fat source 2021-07-04T04:00:00Z He planned to refine it into kerosene, for lamps - a substitute for increasingly expensive whale oil. How did the oil price become so important? 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z Thus, for more than 100 years, starting with a nineteenth-century boom in whale oil, the hunt for resources turned to walruses, foxes, reindeer, gold and tin, then back to whales. An environmental reckoning in the High Arctic 2019-08-04T04:00:00Z Later, their blubber helped fuel the Industrial Revolution, when whale oil was used to lubricate factory machinery. The people risking their lives to save whales 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z The candles themselves were made using either whale oil or tallow from livestock — cattle and hogs that “until the 1930s were mostly raised by farmers using kerosene lamps”. Edison and the shadow side of artificial light 2019-10-13T04:00:00Z They’d be better off selling buggy whips and whale oil, right? Perspective | The handwriting is on the wall: Fountain pens are back. 2019-06-10T04:00:00Z The night before an attack, he supervised his men by ritualistic candlelight as they rubbed whale oil into their feet. 175,000 whales died to furnish that stuff, and to supply glycerine for bombs. Into the dark water: Philip Hoare on the life and death of Wilfred Owen 2018-11-03T04:00:00Z A few months ago I learned that, as recently as 1972, General Motors was using sperm whale oil in transmission fluid in its cars. We May Never Understand the Ocean-Wide Damage Done by Industrial Whaling 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z Fossil fuel’s share of how much energy we consume in the U.S. was the lowest last year that it’s been since 1902 when whale oil was still being used. Energy Commission moves to force electricity costs up, air quality down 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z We “harvested” sperm whale oil for lighting, lubrication or cosmetics – the “cold cream” on my mother’s face when I kissed her goodnight contained spermaceti. Underwater with Sri Lanka's sperm whales – in pictures 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z Imagine if New Bedford, Massachusetts was still full of people furious about the collapse of the whale oil industry. Coal Country Divides Over an Unrepentant Boss’s Senate Bid 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z In 1858, before Standard Oil was founded, lighting a home required whale oil, which cost up to $3 a gallon, putting illumination out of reach for all but the wealthiest of households. The Case Against Google 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z In 2003, he opened his restaurant on the ground floor of a hulking, 18th-century warehouse in which the Danish once stockpiled dried fish and whale oil to trade with other nations. An Exclusive Look Inside the New Noma 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z He contends it will be so disruptive it will send the livestock industry the way of the horse-drawn carriage, whale oil lamps and ice blocks cut from lakes. Cattlemen not worried about growing meat alternatives 2018-01-20T05:00:00Z And when it was discovered that by mixing jute with whale oil it could be turned into fabric, whaling in Dundee grew dramatically. Are All Fish the Same Shape If You Stretch Them? 2017-10-25T04:00:00Z He also sees clean-energy batteries in electric vehicles displacing oil demand, as petroleum did whale oil in the 19th century. Can the world thrive on 100% renewable energy? 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z The city was one of America's leading whaling ports during 19th century, when whale oil was used for lighting and lubrication. Can Offshore Wind Power Revive U.S. Ports? 2017-06-19T04:00:00Z But for the fossil-fuel industry, he said, “It’s like the switch from whale oil in the nineteenth century. They’re fighting to maintain the status quo, no matter how dumb.” In the Withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement, the Koch Brothers’ Campaign Becomes Overt 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z Outlawing renewable energy in favour of whale oil? Ivanka doesn’t moderate Trump; she sells him to moderates | Lindy West 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z Russian serfs were freed by Tsar Alexander II. Oil refining had begun and soon whale oil would be replaced. Scientists understood the climate 150 years ago better than the EPA head today | John Abraham 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z When it was first built, its various rooms were lit with candles and whale oil lamps. Perspective | Answer Man sheds some light on curious glass panels at the U.S. Capitol 2017-03-25T04:00:00Z But their oil greased the wheels of America’s machine age after the Civil War, replacing whale oil as a cheaper alternative. Not Just Another Stinky Fish 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z Demand for whale oil plummeted with the development of kerosene. The Great New York Whale Census 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z Norway killed more whales than infamous whale hunters Iceland and Japan combined, later exporting nearly 400,000 pounds of products made from whale oil to those countries and the Faroe Islands. Norway Kills More Whales Than Japan and Iceland Combined, Report Finds 2016-06-15T04:00:00Z People lit their houses with candles and whale oil, and heated them with wood or coal-burning stoves that kept homes unevenly heated and smelling of smoke. What Was the Greatest Era for American Innovation? A Brief Guided Tour 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z Whaling all but disappeared as an industry after mineral oil supplanted whale oil as a fuel. Fin-tech 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z He worked first at General Dynamics, then farmed jojoba shrubs as a substitute for sperm whale oil, which is used as a lubricant, and later joined Kistler Aerospace in Kirkland, Wash. George Mueller, Engineer Who Helped Put Man on Moon, Dies at 97 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z “I don’t think you will see a single person say that the poor should continue to use whale oil in the 21st century and call that ethical and progressive.” Coal Trumps Solar in India 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z After petroleum was discovered in Pennsylvania in 1859, sperm whale oil was no longer in great demand for lighting. New England port lore: Whaling, pizza and a perfect storm 2015-09-05T04:00:00Z And it proved far cheaper than the prevailing source of lamp fuel: whale oil. How the American Oil Industry Got Its Start 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z It wasn’t until 1851 that Mr. Kier became the first oil baron when he started manufacturing Carbon Oil, a kerosene that would replace whale oil as a fuel for lamps. Oil Makes a Comeback in Pennsylvania 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z The cliffs remained stained with the colors from his activity, Sayet said - red from the whale’s blood, yellow from the whale oil and black from the charcoal of Moshup’s fire. New England’s Indians working to restore heritage 2014-11-15T05:00:00Z Decentralized grids are solutions of the future while the central grid is like “whale oil,” he said. Coal Trumps Solar in India 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z Dundee was a whaling city, and it was discovered that jute from India could be processed by machine if first treated with whale oil. How Dundee became a games centre 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z The parallels between the declining availability of whale oil at that time and the modern-day perils of the petroleum industry have not gone unobserved. How the American Oil Industry Got Its Start 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z Some of the huge steel cylinders of the whale oil tanks, 30ft high and 30ft across, have had their sides folded in, as if by a giant hand. The lost whaling station at the end of the world 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z Whaling in the 19th century was a lucrative business as whale oil became immensely valuable for lighting oil lamps and making candles and soaps. The real Moby Dick: Do whales really attack humans? 2013-12-20T01:14:23Z On 17th century financial exchanges in Amsterdam and elsewhere, options and futures in products as diverse as whale oil, sugar, silks and herring were used both to hedge investments and to speculate in paper. Austerity never works: Deficit hawks are amoral — and wrong 2013-05-05T16:00:00Z Our drink allows you to build your own whale oil furnace. Five festive video game cocktails 2012-12-24T15:43:21Z Now we know because of this capacity to look at ourselves with new eyes, but it couldn’t happen had we been powering our civilization on whale oil or its predecessors. Dot Earth Blog: Sylvia Earle on Optimism and the Up and Down Sides of Fossil Fuels 2012-06-11T16:20:04Z They only saw the coating of paint and whale oil that covered him, and because this was offensive to them they called him hideous. The Gold Diggings of Cape Horn A Study of Life in Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia 2012-03-13T02:00:27.187Z They were saying that American lard was quite superseding whale oil. Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 2012-01-24T03:00:23.377Z Chief products, sugar and rice; but coffee, hides, bone, whale oil and wool are exported in considerable quantities. Alden's Handy Atlas of the World 2012-01-02T03:00:16.440Z On the little island of Skaaro there is a building where whale oil is prepared for use. Norway 2011-11-29T03:00:15.103Z And just as whale oil for home lighting was supplanted by kerosene and then by the electric light, fossil fuels are about to be replaced by renewables, Mr. Lovins predicts. Green Blog: Fossil Fuels as the Whale Oil of the Future 2011-10-27T16:53:00Z Kerosene was the dominant illuminant fuel for a few decades between the decline of whale oil and the rise of electricity. The Social Graph as Crude Oil (Go Ahead, Build that YASN!) 2011-10-21T20:33:13Z This kind of air is imbibed by oils, which thereby change their colour; whale oil becoming red, olive oil of an orange colour, and spirit of turpentine of the colour of amber. Heads of Lectures on a Course of Experimental Philosophy: Particularly Including Chemistry 2011-10-11T02:01:05.817Z When more numerous, the foliage may be syringed with common soapsuds, or with the whale oil soap, two pounds to fifteen gallons of water. American Pomology Apples 2011-10-03T02:00:29.477Z Experiments are being made to utilize whale oil in the linoleum industry. Paint Technology and Tests 2011-09-15T02:00:12.263Z Seizing a jug from a dark corner, he ejected the cork without a glance at the contents, and took a long deep draught of whale oil used for filling lamps. John Greenleaf Whittier His Life, Genius, and Writings 2011-08-26T02:00:22.667Z Then came the great discovery of rock oil, which rapidly superseded the whale oil of commerce in general use. Equatorial America Descriptive of a Visit to St. Thomas, Martinique, Barbadoes, and the Principal Capitals of South America 2011-08-05T02:00:46.387Z Powdered white hellebore, dusted on the foliage, or the solution of whale oil soap mentioned for the Rose Thrip, will keep it in check. Making a Rose Garden 2011-07-29T02:00:21.533Z Tradition says that at first some of the oil merchants mixed the menhaden oil with whale oil, or sold it outright as whale oil. The Stronghold A Story of Historic Northern Neck of Virginia and Its People 2011-07-17T02:00:38.770Z The analyses of samples of whale oil tested by the writer are as follows: Sp. Paint Technology and Tests 2011-09-15T02:00:12.263Z Without whale oil, so the thinking went, the world would slide backward toward darkness. Bjorn Lomborg Explains How to Save the Planet 2011-06-12T14:00:00Z Before electricity, light was expensive, a product of exhaustible sources like whale oil. Bulb in, Bulb Out 2011-06-03T12:00:41Z They stenched of blubber and whale oil, and they oozed in the warm sun as they labored southward, out of the realms of ice and night into the rolling waters of the Pacific. Yankee Ships and Yankee Sailors: Tales of 1812 2011-05-19T02:00:07.643Z For you are a lump of blubber, Whale rejoined you are land lubber, Thus bandying epithets so vile, Of bear grease and of whale oil. Poems of James McIntyre 2011-05-11T02:00:21.477Z One hundred and fifty years ago petroleum was used for kerosene for lamps in the Northeast to replace whale oil. Focus on Fuels: Developing Sustainable Biofuel Crops 2011-04-21T16:57:00Z High demand and rising prices for whale oil spurred a search for and investment in the 19th-century version of alternative energy. Bjorn Lomborg Explains How to Save the Planet 2011-06-12T14:00:00Z All of these were to be dipped in hot whale oil before being eaten. Rick Dale, A Story of the Northwest Coast 2011-03-24T02:00:12.337Z They contained the masters of the two whalers, who had come in to barter a little whale oil for supplies. Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States 2011-01-04T03:01:01.887Z She brought home thousands of barrels of whale oil that lighted homes and cities. Technology Aids Restoration of Whaling Ship Morgan 2010-08-16T21:27:00Z By the 1700s cities were sporadically lit with whale oil lamps, kept alive by lamplighters. Books on Science: Let There Be Dimmers on Our Glowing Planet 2010-07-26T23:51:00Z From the 18th through the mid-19th century, whale oil provided light to much of the Western world. Bjorn Lomborg Explains How to Save the Planet 2011-06-12T14:00:00Z Then came another course of fish—this time fresh and plain boiled—which the Indians ate with a liberal supply of whale oil. Rick Dale, A Story of the Northwest Coast 2011-03-24T02:00:12.337Z Perhaps we’ve found a clue to the real origins of the financial crisis — Bakunin July 14, 2010 8:17 pm Could this be a whaler with an oven to reduce whale oil? 18th-Century Ship Found at Trade Center Site 2010-07-15T00:50:00Z New England ports, the Houstons of their era, and fortunes were built with whale oil money. The Ahab Parallax: ?Moby Dick? and the Spill 2010-06-12T17:36:00Z This ship was returning from Newfoundland, which leads Bunker into discussions about the types of ships that fished for cod; the business of cod fishing; the uses of cod, walrus and whale oil; and Capt. Book Review - Making Haste From Babylon - By Nick Bunker 2010-05-21T16:55:00Z They sometimes, also, would churn mutton tallow, or whale oil, in the sheep's milk, and make a kind of butter. Olof Krarer, The Esquimaux Lady A story of her native home They were sought because in addition to whale oil produced from the body blubber, the forehead of the species yielded quantities of spermaceti like that obtained from sperm whales. Whales, Dolphins, and Porpoises of the Western North Atlantic A Guide to Their Identification It included cotton, timber, iron, hops, whale oil, bills of exchange, ships on the stocks and the Alt rates. An Example of Communal Currency The facts about the Guernsey Market House The rising price of whale oil, he wrote, created an incentive to find an alternative. The Ahab Parallax: ?Moby Dick? and the Spill 2010-06-12T17:36:00Z What do you say to whale oil and Welsh wigs?' Jack Hinton The Guardsman It is quite hard in my country, but would melt down into what you would call whale oil in this country. Olof Krarer, The Esquimaux Lady A story of her native home She persisted for days in smelling whale oil above the reek of the peat, above even the salt keenness of the winter air. Jan Vedder's Wife The labors of the cruise were often richly rewarded with a thousand barrels of sperm oil and two hundred and fifty barrels of whale oil. History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. I Conditions in Settlement and Colonial Times Soon after the close of the war, a wide-awake skipper of Nantucket, who had some whale oil to sell, appeared at London. The Little Book of the Flag During the late war it was extensively employed in the Southern machine shops, and regarded as superior in its lubricating qualities to whale oil. The Peanut Plant Its Cultivation And Uses Oil lamps were few, kerosene undiscovered, and either lard oil, or whale oil, all too often smelled to heaven, to say nothing of smoking upon the least provocation. Dishes & Beverages of the Old South Spray with kerosene emulsion, made by using two gallons of kerosene, one-half pound of common or whale oil soap, and one gallon of water. The Cauliflower Yet in a list of exports from Virginia for the year ending September 30, 1791, 1263 gallons of whale oil appears. The Bounty of the Chesapeake Fishing in Colonial Virginia They have," he says, "one most important article of commerce—unknown in the channel of Tartary—from which they derive their riches, namely, whale oil. Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century Well, this stuff looks like shaving soap, but there is another thing, "whale oil," which none of us have as yet tried. Letters of Lt.-Col. George Brenton Laurie (commanding 1st Battn. Royal Irish Rifles) Dated November 4th, 1914-March 11th, 1915 Five years before he had sailed from London in a South Seaman, the Sweet Dolly, which had made a very successful voyage, for the ship was filled with whale oil in less than a year. Rodman The Boatsteerer And Other Stories 1898 Chancellor sold his merchandise to great advantage, and after taking on board another cargo of furs, of seal and whale oils, copper, and other products, returned to England, carrying a letter from the Czar. Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part I. The Exploration of the World After sketching the uses of whale oil, its economic position and its history, he took up the particular problem facing the people of Nantucket, perhaps the foremost whalers in America. The Bounty of the Chesapeake Fishing in Colonial Virginia "Ahkootoo" is made from deer marrow, mixed with whale oil, a small amount of soup from boiled deer meat and also some of the meat cut fine. Short Sketches from Oldest America I knew that, before the day of mineral oil—kerosene—people used whale oil almost altogether for lamps. Swept Out to Sea Clint Webb Among the Whalers For many years whale oil was about the only illuminating oil used by most of the world, and the chief supply was obtained from the whales slaughtered in north polar regions. Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania To make the flour go farther we mixed whale oil with it, and, though nauseous in the extreme, it served to keep body and soul together. Peter Trawl The Adventures of a Whaler The remedy was suggested: make France the most attractive market for U.S. whale oil. The Bounty of the Chesapeake Fishing in Colonial Virginia At the time when petroleum began to be used instead of whale oil for burning in lamps, a kindly old lady was deeply perturbed by the change. Jokes For All Occasions Selected and Edited by One of America's Foremost Public Speakers Before the discovery of petroleum, whale oil was generally used for lighting. Story Hour Readings: Seventh Year It is estimated that in two centuries America, England, and Holland obtained from the arctic regions products amounting to one thousand million dollars, the greatest items by far being whale oil and whalebone. Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania He passed the Arret in a very favorable form, but it has been opposed in the Council, and will, I fear, suffer some alteration in the article of whale oil. The Writings of Thomas Jefferson Library Edition - Vol. 6 (of 20) But the young may be destroyed in summer by a contact spray such as tobacco leaf extract or whale oil soap. Apple Growing As a preventive measure, whale oil was issued with positive orders that every man must, at some time during each twenty-four hours, remove his shoes and socks and rub his feet with this oil. The Emma Gees "That comes of drinking seal and whale oil," said Bonney. Left on Labrador or, The cruise of the Schooner-yacht 'Curlew.' as Recorded by 'Wash.' If sooty bubbles form and blacken on the wick in a lamp burning whale oil, each bubble indicates the receipt of a letter. Current Superstitions Collected from the Oral Tradition of English Speaking Folk The other fish oils are placed in a separate article; because whatever encouragements we may hereafter obtain for whale oils, they will not be extended to those which their own fisheries produce. The Writings of Thomas Jefferson Library Edition - Vol. 6 (of 20) Contact Sprays.—Four compounds are used as contact sprays in combating sucking insects, namely, lime sulphur, soaps such as whale oil soap, kerosene emulsion, and tobacco extract. Apple Growing They live on whale oil, blubber, fish and the meat of the musk ox, bear and other animals that inhabit the far North. Billy Whiskers' Adventures They then resumed cruising in two squadrons, finding more British ships and sending them into the neutral harbor of Valparaiso or home to the United States with precious cargoes of whale oil and bone. The Fight for a Free Sea: A Chronicle of the War of 1812 The Chronicles of America Series, Volume 17 To prevent an illness known as "trench feet" each man had to grease his feet daily with whale oil, which was an ordeal on a bitterly cold day in wet, muddy trenches. The Story of the "9th King's" in France Before the war, these States depended on their whale oil and fish. The Writings of Thomas Jefferson Library Edition - Vol. 6 (of 20) The fish oil soaps, although variable in composition, are often valuable, especially the one known in the trade as whale oil soap. Apple Growing I have found, I think, that whale oil soap can be used successfully for the destruction of that insect. Scientific American Supplement, No. 443, June 28, 1884 For hundreds of years whale oil was burned in large lamps, and thousands of whales were killed in order to get the oil. Stories of American Life and Adventure There are charming lacquer sconces to go with lacquer furniture, and old-fashioned prism candelabra and sconces, and fixtures copied from choice old whale oil lamps in both brass and bronze. Furnishing the Home of Good Taste A Brief Sketch of the Period Styles in Interior Decoration with Suggestions as to Their Employment in the Homes of Today The heavy duties on American whale oil, now required in England, exclude it from that market; and the Algerines exclude them from bringing their fish into the Mediterranean. The Writings of Thomas Jefferson Library Edition - Vol. 6 (of 20) And an Epicurus, in the dirt-igloo of the Eskimos, will wax eloquent over the whale oil and walrus blubber, or die. A Daughter of the Snows Soldiers were instructed to rub their boots inside and out with whale oil, and to grease their feet and legs. Kings, Queens and Pawns An American Woman at the Front Finding that much money could be made by selling whale oil, the people on Long Island fitted up boats, which they kept always ready along the seashore. Stories of American Life and Adventure The whale oil soap spray is the one to use. The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. This prohibition being expressed in general terms, seems to exclude the whale oils of the United States of America, as well as of the nations of Europe. The Writings of Thomas Jefferson Library Edition - Vol. 6 (of 20) The principal products of Brazil are red wood, bearing the name of the country; sugar, gold, tobacco, snuff, whale oil, and various kinds of drugs; and the Portuguese build their best ships in this country. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 10 Arranged in systematic order: Forming a complete history of the origin and progress of navigation, discovery, and commerce, by sea and land, from the earliest ages to the present time. Those arrets, among other advantages, admit our whale oils to the exclusion of that of all other foreigners. A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 1, part 1: George Washington We do not need whale oil so much, because we have kerosene, gaslights, and electric lights. Stories of American Life and Adventure Before the war the Americans had paid for these goods with dried fish, lumber, whale oil, flour, tobacco, rice, and indigo, and with money made by trading in the West Indies. A School History of the United States The indulgences given to American whale oil will ensure its coming here directly. The Writings of Thomas Jefferson Library Edition - Vol. 6 (of 20) Candles and whale oil were the two known articles for light, and the latter was expensive, so that the former was generally adopted. From Boyhood to Manhood Life of Benjamin Franklin A small table, capable of accommodating three persons at dinner, stood against the forward bulkhead, and over it hung the dingiest whale oil lantern that ever peopled the obscurity of a dungeon with ghostly shapes. Roughing It, Part 7. Drummond's earlier work with fish oils and whale oils seemed to confirm this conclusion. The Vitamine Manual This is whale oil—a nauseous smelling compound. Further Adventures of Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason Corner Folks I urged everything I could, in letters and in conferences, to convince them that whale oil was an article which could bear no duty at all. The Writings of Thomas Jefferson Library Edition - Vol. 6 (of 20) Thence a large number of ships sail annually for Europe laden with whale oil. The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders Such articles as whale oil, salt fish, salt provisions, and grain itself, could not be exported to any town in England. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 11 American Founders Can he who has discovered only some of the values of whalebone and whale oil be said to have discovered the true use of the whale? The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 09, July, 1858 This article may have been, simply, bones of the whale; and "whale oil" only appears four times in the ten years quoted. Canada and the States But they found themselves called on for the old duties, not only on other fish oils, but on the whale oil. The Writings of Thomas Jefferson Library Edition - Vol. 6 (of 20) What will they do with the whale oil? On a Torn-Away World Or, the Captives of the Great Earthquake This has resulted chiefly from the marketing of whale oil and the by-product, guano, and represents for each total a season’s capture of several thousand whales. South: the story of Shackleton's 1914-1917 expedition Land and house had been bought with whale oil. Love, the Fiddler Though petroleum was not unknown, millions of American households were still burning candles, whale oil, and other illuminants. The Age of Big Business; a chronicle of the captains of industry It would be a convenient deposit for our whale oil, of which, after the supply of Paris, there will be a surplus for re-exportation. The Writings of Thomas Jefferson Library Edition - Vol. 6 (of 20) It yields the article commonly known as whalebone or baleen; and the oil specially known as "whale oil," an inferior article in commerce. Moby Dick, or, the whale Wartime conditions emphasized the importance of the whale oil, and fortunately the supply was fairly constant for the production of the enormous quantities of glycerine required by the country in the manufacture of explosives. South: the story of Shackleton's 1914-1917 expedition Their little income, derived from the rent of three barren and stony farms and amounting to not more than sixty dollars a month, represented a capitalisation of whale oil. Love, the Fiddler There was another man at Hennequin’s Lodge, near the Wellington College, who thought he would make the poor sands fertile by manuring them with whale oil, of all things in the world. Madam How and Lady Why Those States, as you know, depended before the war chiefly on their whale oil and fish. The Writings of Thomas Jefferson Library Edition - Vol. 6 (of 20) This country has opened a market for their whale oil, and we have made a good treaty of peace with Morocco. The Writings of Thomas Jefferson Library Edition - Vol. 6 (of 20) That the common whale oil sells there but for about twenty pounds sterling, the ton, and of course the duty amounts to a prohibition. The Writings of Thomas Jefferson Library Edition - Vol. 6 (of 20) Sir,—I take the liberty of troubling your Excellency on the subject of the Arret which has lately appeared, for prohibiting the importation of whale oils and spermaceti, the produce of foreign fisheries. The Writings of Thomas Jefferson Library Edition - Vol. 6 (of 20) So he not only lost all the cost of his whale oil, but made the land utterly barren, as it is unto this day; and all for want of science. Madam How and Lady Why |
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