| 单词 | oil |
| 例句 | Z didn’t for a minute believe that Trepid wanted to know where Tiller and Sairy might have found oil. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z All she knew was that the doctor had prescribed a certain diet, hours of rest to be rigidly adhered to, and cod-liver oil twice a day. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Toxic and hazardous wastes were stored in another: corner of the dump, where you could find old batteries, oil drums, paint cans, and bottles with skulls and crossbones. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z He was home from the University of Montana for the summer, all tan and oiled up and smelling like vanilla extract and onion. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z My mother says anyone that writes such letters should be boiled in oil and have his fingernails pulled out by blind people. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Dad told me that one company had been so alarmed by the success of Mother’s oils, they had offered to buy her out for an astonishing three million dollars. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “Let’s fire the oil all at once,” she said. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Each barracks was divided into six units, sixteen by twenty feet, about the size of a living room, with one bare bulb hanging from the ceiling and an oil stove for heat. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, Grandma was busy pouring oil into a pot that was heating up on the stove. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z Theo likes some of Vincent’s paintings well enough to take them back to Paris: oil paintings of peasant women and a still life of flowers in a vase. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Gutenberg’s press was derived from screw presses in use for making wine and olive oil, while his ink was an oil-based improvement on existing inks. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Thanks to rubber cement and oil paint, our toilet could quickly be repaired. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z A gasket blows five thousand feet underwater beneath an oil rig off the coast of Louisiana, sending millions of barrels of crude oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “You mean will she take a lover there?” he said, his thick moustache spiced with strong oils. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Showing no mercy, the sun burns through my black clothes, scorching the oil on my skin. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z After a bit, lulled by the bobbing of the raft and by the soft, pleasant sounds of the sea against the oil barrel floats, I went to sleep again. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Daedalus had a few scratches that were bleeding golden oil, but he looked better than most of us. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z There are boxes packed with bottles of purple hair oil. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z He wore a jumpsuit smeared with oil and grime. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z “Vegas is full of girls who thought putting out a lot was a high idea once, but now they’re just washed-up jokes sliding themselves around oiled poles.” Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z Silent Germans row up the Seine in synchrony; their skiffs glide as if through oil. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The group of children I lived with pooled our camp food rations and boiled them in a large metal cooking oil container we had cut in two to make a pot. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z The beautiful blonde rubbing on the suntan oil had ruined it. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Actually, he had it fairly well advanced when he met Amaranta Úrsula, except that it was not for Macondo but for the Belgian Congo, where his family had investments in palm oil. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z The electric light made high lights on the dull oiled leather. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z I got the roasting heat and the crocodiles and the snakes and the long safaris up-country, selling Shell oil to the men who ran the diamond mines and the sisal plantations. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z There sat the trainer, pushed up against the oil stove. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z A heavily perfumed gentleman with long, oiled hair and a Vintic accent clapped me on the back and gave me a purse of money, “for new strings.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z She visualized the mother braiding it, her fingers oiling it with pomade before dividing it into sections with a wooden comb. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z For this formal group picture she straightened her hair with oil to make a chin- length bob like the others’. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Potatoes, mushrooms, bell peppers, and carrots were all dumped together in a roasting pan with olive oil, salt, and pepper. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z “I shouldn’t be using it, but I couldn’t find the oil for the lamp.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z In late January islanders experienced a temporary fuel shortage and were made to turn their oil heaters down by order of the civilian defense commission. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Baby Kochamma recognized at once the immense potential of the situation, but immediately anointed her thoughts with unctuous oils. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Crouching down, she crumbled some dried leaves into it, two pinches from this bag, one from that, and added three drops of a pale yellow oil. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The pine trees would look down forever on a lantern burning out of oil but not going out. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Unlike the Middle East, where oil almost literally flowed out of a spigot, finding it here was getting harder and more expensive. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “The boy was embarrassed, and confessed that he had observed nothing. His only concern had been not to spill the oil that the wise man had entrusted to him. “ The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He tells me stories about the summer, during college, he spent working on the oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z I read somewhere that it has combustible oil in it that the Indians used to start fires. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z The tanker was huge, one of the workhorses of the oil age, almost a floating city in itself. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z He blustered and complained at first, but decided it was high time he cleaned and oiled his old rifle. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z At the end of the shooting exercise, we were taught how to dismantle our guns and oil them, because the AKs were so old that they would misfire randomly and sometimes would stop working altogether. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z The lessons were much more expensive than the dance class had been, but Mother paid for them with the money she made selling oils. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z A few drops of oil must have splattered on his pants, because they were starting to smolder. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z She should not even be encouraged to master oil paints, or paint figures or city scenes. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z And when at last he spoke, Toby’s words came out like hot oil on a stove—still on the surface, but ready to pop at the slightest disturbance. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z I sniffed the top of her head, which was sweet from coconut oil and tangled from no combing. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z “When the oil is hot, we fry the onions in the pot,” Mamatells us. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z Fuels like coal, oil, and gas make the world hotter. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z It was a big, light room in a wing of the house, all the windows thrown open to air out the heavy oil and turpentine smells. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Paintings, to him, were those made with oil. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z I made some effort to keep up my schooling in the free time I had between scrapping and helping Mother make tinctures and blend oils. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z When the waitress brings out a basket of bread, we just stare at each other confused until we see the couple next to us dip their bread in olive oil. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z The cooking oil cans John mentioned were useful in Yar’s family, too. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z It's a cool morning, and even though I'm twelve now, I don't have a choice—it's cod-liver oil and Latin recitation and the endless, tedious Wohlfahrt viola etudes. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z After he finished cutting out the pictures, he took them all to the basement and found the bright yellow oil paint left over from a go-cart he had made to run kids down with. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z There were stories of competition in the oil patch turning into a Mafia turf war. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Meticulously I had changed the oil and attended to the greasing. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Greathearted Odysseus, home at last, was being bathed now by Eurynome and rubbed with golden oil, and clothed again in a fresh tunic and a cloak. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Once, because I had to, and three times for tesserae for grain and oil for myself, Prim, and my mother. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z The room's wonders had unfolded to us for hours: perfume atomizers and color crème-cakes and rouge-sticks and powders and kohl pencils and golden vinaigrettes and pastilles and potpourri and oils and sachets. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z But the moment she saw it my mother decided she didn’t like Curacao and she often complained about the smell of gas and oil whenever the trade winds died down. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z She didn’t dare look in his direction, but went straight to her looms where Brigid was already at work, cleaning and oiling. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z I poured half of the oil in my lantern down into the hole and dropped in a match. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Her oiled hair was parted into two halves. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z A fourth nail screeched as it was pried up, and Miles poured on more oil. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z He held her close, by the light of an oil lamp, and he shone as though he had been polished with a high-wax body polish. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z One aunt prescribed to her sisters the elixir of large doses of castor oil during the last weeks of pregnancy. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z My story began in 1922 and there were concerns about the flow of oil. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The money flowing into the community from the oil boom had helped to build their businesses and to realize their once seemingly fantastical dreams of turning the raw prairie into a beacon of commerce. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z It needed an oil change and the brakes squealed—and those were just the things I knew to watch out for. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Every few weeks, UN workers would deliver the rations of rice, beans, vegetable oil, sugar, salt, and a flour mixture called sosoma, made of soybeans, sorghum, and corn. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z I stirred the milk, and beige pellets floated up from the bottom, like sand encased in a shimmery oil that skimmed the top and bubbled around the whirlpool I made with my spoon. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z When she was done, he shook hfohead, and his hair spread out behind him like a river of darkness, oiled and gleaming. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The next moment a hideous, grinding screech, as of some monstrous machine running without oil, burst from the big telescreen at the end of the room. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Derek didn’t want coconut oil on his face because it stinks and he didn’t care if his face does look ashy. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z When Pete told her he’d drink his castor oil if she gave him a box of candy, she agreed, watched him drink it, then handed him an empty candy box. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z He cleaned and oiled his new gun and prepared it with extra care. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z The engine rumbled and coughed and smelled like burning oil, but it actually worked. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z On the second floor there were some offices and three empty lecture rooms, all with rows of wooden chairs, old oil paintings on the walls, and elaborate leaded glass windows. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z Mom had made spaghetti and meat sauce—perhaps the least Persian food ever, though she did add a bit of turmeric to the sauce, which gave a slight orange cast to the oil in it. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z My cousin Kylie was working for my mother that day, filling vials of essential oil. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I scraped up most of it with my fingers into a little scoop Doc had given me and poured about a teaspoonful into each jar of oil in front of me. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z He didn't stop until cars and buses began to snarl and belch their way through the roads of the park, filling his nose and mouth with gas and oil fumes. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z “The only sea passage from the PersianGulf to the Gulf of Oman and then out to sea. Twenty-one percent of the world’s oil travels through the narrow passage.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z He was cut in a hundred places—but he was bleeding golden oil instead of blood. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z After the half hour is up, Mrs. Walton rinses out the conditioner and combs some jojoba oil into my hair from the root to the tip. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z The Saudis, the Iranians, the Iraqis, they called the shots, they were the ones with the vast stockpiles of oil, not the Americans, where the holes were running dry. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z It needed honey for sweetness and oil for smoothness. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Father Gorey is touching me with oil and praying in Latin. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z His reading lamp was flickering, its oil all but gone, as dawn light leaked through the high windows. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z He had filed for bankruptcy, and by 1988 he was back on his feet again, in the oil business, although on a far reduced basis. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Pilots would climb out with their clothes covered with castor oil, and the smell didn’t wash off. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z We ascend the red-carpeted stairs, passing silver sailing trophies and the oil portrait of the hydroplane racer Gar Wood. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z How does Kazi take all these plain boring foods—bitter vegetables, dried lentils, flour, oil, spices—and turn them into something so warm and delicious every time? The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z An oil producer told a reporter, “For the first time in a hundred years, there’s no drilling in Osage County.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Behind them, the oil sprayed a hundred feet in the air. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z This particular crater was lined with oil lamps the size and shape of bowling balls. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Kainene dipped a finger in palm oil and brought it to her mouth. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “We shouldn’t be bleaching any more palm oil. We should splurge on vegetable oil for these last few weeks,” Obiora said, still swatting at the flies. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z “Get the money. Twenty minutes. We’ll be waiting just off the road past the Spender oil lease.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Soon, he too was working busily, passing tools and squirting oil. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z The dancers shimmered, their sleek shaved bodies covered with a fine sheen of oil. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I nodded and wrapped my arms around him in a hug, breathing in his familiar scent, a mixture of the sweet, musky oil he used in his beard and laundry detergent. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z I brought a heavy frying pan up from the house and because we had no cooking oil we steamed vegetables in water over the fire. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Doc turned up the wick on his hurricane lamp, an old oil one with a tall glass cover to protect the light when it was windy. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Before I could say no, not ever, unless you boil me in oil, he left the kitchen scratching his underarms and then—I winced—his butt. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z The smell of oiled machinery was strong in his nostrils, reeking. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Aunty Ifeoma slid the onion slices into hot oil and stepped back. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z There were farmers growing peanuts, hauling peanuts, making peanut oil, peanut butter, even peanut soap. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Ahead, the cloud of burning oil stood over the landscape like an angry father. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Beautiful combs and brushes were used to brush expensive oils into their glossy hair. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z There, my mother cooked over the fire in a large metal can once used for cooking oil that we now used as a stove. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z She blew out the flame and carefully placed the oil lamp on the floor of her car. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z All eyes went to their bodyguard, who had left off tending the roses and was oiling the gate hinges. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z She buried her face in it and inhaled the dark fragrance of the oils. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The oil didn’t give him any float at all. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Francis kept watch while Henry and I went up to the attic and searched through broken lamps, cardboard boxes, ugly Art I oil paintings. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Two women with three small children emerged from behind an oil drum near the truck and scrambled onto the back of the truck. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z It was Smith who had first suspected that Lizzie was poisoned, and he who had investigated whether there was a larger conspiracy connected to the family’s oil wealth. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z They found carved furniture, sitting rooms, lounges, a bar with shattered liquor bottles, staterooms, art on the walls mangled and torn, oil paintings tossed about and punctured. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z She balanced the immense rectangular can of oil on her head while she chatted with me, and looked so comfortable at it that I tried placing my plastic demijohn on my own head. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z You anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The guy he’d bought the radio from said he was selling it cheap on account of him moving to an oil field in Oklahoma and not wanting more stuff to haul. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z His mind, temporarily sidetracked, oiled itself and ticked and turned and woke up, functioning. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Entomology smells like mothballs and oil: a preservative that, Dr. Geffard explains, is called naphthalene. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Down below a wind fluff stirred up some greasy newspaper pages; you could smell fresh oil on the air. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z By one account, the amount of oil money had surpassed the total value of all the Old West gold rushes combined, and this fortune had drawn every breed of miscreant from across the country. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z He was in some kind of oil reservoir, maybe a leaked pool, or some secondary storage chamber, or.. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z 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 As Brother Luke had told him, he mustn’t forget oil for the rusty lock of the door in the wall. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z “See, they were thinking of drilling up there, and I’m just a little curious as to where this oil is.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z The New London oil camp houses seemed naked and homely by comparison. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Her voice held steady, but her hands did not, and the O of Olinski was the rough shape of an oil spill. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z It smelled of oil and made a sharp clacking noise like a train running down a track as the keys snapped against the carriage. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z I hope you’re taking your cod liver oil pills and keeping out of trouble. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z I sought the key of the side-door in the kitchen; I sought, too, a phial of oil and a feather; I oiled the key and the lock. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z She grabbed the basin of a hand lantern off the desk and turned it upside down, pouring oil all over the carpeted floor. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z You can imagine the scene: a dark-paneled room, an artfully frayed Persian carpet, row upon row of leather-bound legal volumes, oil paintings of Mr. Mudge and Mr. Rose on the wall. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z The article went on to list Orson’s additional talents as an oil painter, magician, and makeup artist. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z She went into the front room to get the oil stove. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z What Ralph needed was an oil can — which, of course, if he did things the right way, he would have. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Long before dawn the market space was lit by dozens of oil lamps as potters and their assistants rushed about in an anxious, eerie silence, preparing their stalls. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z Their faces gleamed with oil, and the chilies brought tears to their eyes. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z A tanker stood over against Seaside, taking on oil. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Florer thought that the liquid smelled like the axle grease sold in his store, and he rushed back and showed the sample to others, who confirmed his suspicions: it was oil. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z He had built his own oil field service company. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z She and her dad were changing the oil in his car. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Exotic sea creatures were carved into the walls, and oil lamps cast a golden glow. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Iridescent oils are displayed with amulets, talismans, incense. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z As Mama drops our samosas into the spattering oil, Elizabeth proclaims, “Hey! It’s a Pakistani knish!” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z His breakfasts may have been a cardiologist’s nightmare—eggs, sausage, bacon, pastina with a poached egg—but he considered his marinara sauce to be healthy perfection: just garlic, oil, tomatoes, salt, and pepper. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z People in the villages created everything by hand, including a skin lotion made from milk oil. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z He watches as she floats the white gardenias in her bath and rubs her thighs and breasts with walnut oil. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Because the least valued oil leases were offered first, the barons usually lingered in the back, leaving the initial bidding to upstarts. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Edward pulled me toward the far left side, standing me in front of a small square oil painting in a plain wooden frame. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z She adds salt, lemon juice, thin slices of green chili pepper, wishing there were mustard oil to pour into the mix. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z A tall canister of coconut oil gleamed in the flickering light of the brass lamp. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z But it felt a little like those times when they had opened the dinner delivery containers to find that the evening meal would be grains prepared with fish oil. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z He’s dumping old motor oil into the street, and now the oil is combining with the dirty bathwater to make a river of filth running down the street. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z I’m going to high school next year and I shouldn’t have to keep doing this. be a musician like Jimmy Leon’s dad or own an oil company like Coby’s? Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Her short gray hair curled over her ears and forehead, which was marked with black oil as if she had pushed her hair aside with dirtied fingers. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Her handmaids filled the tub with tepid water that stank of sulfur, sweetening it with jars of bitter oil and handfuls of cmshed mint leaves. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z There are few cars, mostly semitrucks carrying new cars, oil, and logs. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z It was quiet, and as if we were afraid of silence, we began cleaning the blood off our guns and the ones we had brought with us, cleaning and oiling their chambers. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z But his main claim to fame was that he nationalized Iran's oil industry. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Anointing her hands with cornmeal and oil, she rubbed and kneaded, pulled and tugged, and turned that baby from both the inside and the outside until finally he was in a position to come out. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Somewhat comforted by the thought, he returned to oil his empty mold. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z But without the use of both hands, he could barely wind them, and so he oiled and observed as much as possible and anxiously compared the clocks with his railroad watch. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z Indoors it was dark—the wick, burning in its shallow saucer of oil, threw only a dim wavering light—but outside the land glimmered, sometimes pale and sometimes vivid, in the flicker of lightning. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z The electricity supply from Dunkirk must have been cut, but round the edges of some heavily curtained windows they saw the ocher glow of candlelight and oil lamps. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z I already asked Mr. Grady, the art teacher, to teach me to mix oils after school and he said yes. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z As he kicked his legs out straight he made a scar of oil stain across his blanket. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Rations, reduced in December, were reduced again in February, and lanterns in the stalls were forbidden to save oil. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Now I brought out the stores I had put by month after month—rice and dhal and ghee, jars of oil, betel leaf, areca nuts, chewing tobacco and copra. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z The air smelled of oil and gas and nothing else. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z That memory would unwind into the last day when they had sat together, oiling their rifles in the jungle of some nameless Pacific island. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z I brought the two lamps up here, and a supply of oil. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z I got to cook me something and get my head a little straighten I got potatoes, carrots, garlic, and olive oil, put a knife on the counter, and set myself on the stool. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z She didn’t mention cod-liver oil, but she did say, “Do you feel all right, Callie? Your color’s high. Alfred, do you think we should send for Dr. Walker?” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z She gave me something to drink that tasted like orange juice and castor oil. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Knowing I had no oils, I got some butter from our grocery box. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Her method involved baby oil and a series of poses that tended to draw crowds, the mothers shielding their children's eyes with sand-covered fingers. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z I ran inside to get some oil heating on the stove, realizing that dinner would be late. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Last night’s rain had left the huge stones wet and glistening, and the morning sunlight made them look as if they were coated in some fine black oil. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Guy got the oils, you know, to make the perfume. He can match all the top brands. Anything you want he got for a pound an ounce.” Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z We spent weeks at the huge Shell Haven Refinery with a special instructor who taught us all about fuel oil and diesel oil and gas oil and lubricating oil and kerosene and gasoline. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z "I was in the drug business and then I was in the oil business. But I'm not in either one now." The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z The maneuvering in markets for oil, wheat, cotton, coffee and more have brought billions in profits to investment banks. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Interestingly, oil company geologists had known for years that if you wanted to find oil you had to allow for precisely the sort of surface movements that were implied by plate tectonics. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z It was a smooth, oiled feeling on the sheets, a set-free feeling. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The wheels on her metal base make a strange screeching sound when you move her, too, no matter how many times Lolo oils them. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z She takes a pan out of the cupboard and pours in the oil, several cupfuls, to be heated in the minutes before her guests are expected. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Above him, a tear in the tanker’s hull still spewed oil, marking where the ship had vomited him into open air. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Guy came in just at that moment and saw her bare chest by the light of the smaller castor oil lamp that they used for the later hours of the night. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z In the doorway, he paused to draw in the cool air—it smelled of wood and hay and linseed oil and varnish. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z The furnace must have run out of heating oil. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z As her eyes followed it, they came to rest on an oil drum, the signpost of American civilization in the North. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The apartment smells strongly of cooking; on the stove, a few large pieces of chicken are browning in a pan full of oil. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The oil lamp beside his bed had been extinguished, and when I saw my father glance disapprovingly at the lamp I had brought to guide me up the rickety staircase, I quickly lowered the wick. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z "Now she's all set to cook down; all we got to do is put the fire to her," he said, pressing a button on something that looked like the burner of an oil furnace. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The hapless rowboat circles the pole in the growing whirlpool and the pitch holding together its copper planks abandons it, spilling into the water like an oil slick. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z There was the ice on the oiled paper window, ice on the inside of the cabin walls on cold mornings, ice on the frozen paths and ice in the water bucket. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z Favorites include cracked corn, black oil sunflower seeds, and mealworms. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z He kept her for some weeks, and then, seeing that she would not capitulate, sent her oil' to the coast in exile. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Her hair shone like oiled oakwood, and her gray eyes seemed to hide her soul. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Under the surviving oil palms we grow maize, yams, and soybeans, and raise pigs. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He was one of a number of men overwhelmed by burning oil on a sinking ferry off Dunkirk. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z She warmed oil over the fire and rubbed her head and belly, as she had the cow’s. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z He has gentle hands, she mused, as warm fragrant oils ran between her toes. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He said that Boss Fix, Steady Work, and Fast Luck oils were the most popular ones this time of year—he almost couldn’t keep them stocked. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z “Medicine makes people better when they’re sick. It’s like pills and castor oil.” Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z Your dad had an oil company or something. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z I divided a can of sardines between the two remaining gunnysacks and then smeared the oil on my hands. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Every time she tried to look at the spines, her eyes would slide from one side to the other, as though they were not made of leather and ink, but of glass slicked with oil. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Deydey’s triumph resulted in a small square of salt pork, a bit of flour, some dried apples, and a bladder of fish oil. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z Despite her dosing him with the cherry pectoral every few hours, and rubbing his chest with camphor oil, he had still hacked most of the night, sometimes having trouble catching his breath. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z He seemed to be forever changing the oil in his truck. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z She removed the small oil lamp that lit the interior of the hut and put the wooden door in place to keep out predators. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The paintings too—mostly oils in deep blues and greens—had sea themes. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Using some channel iron found behind the machine shop, we built what looked like a miniature oil derrick and placed it over the scale as a brace for a tube that held the rocket. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z For instance, when Ken, who was assigned to bring oil, wanted to know what kind, Toby couldn’t exactly say. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z I turned away, looking at the splotches of old oil tattooed on the pavement, and waited for the car door to slam shut again. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Liyana combed her long wet hair out on the open front balcony of their house where the breeze smelled sweet as olive oil. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z A cold tingle like eucalyptus oil spread across his sternum, but as soon as Bob lifted his hand, the relief stopped. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The woman kept song sparrows in small wicker cages and gave Liyana two fat olive oil soaps to take home to her mother, too. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z The lights in all residential buildings have gone off, just as Metias had said they would, and nothing but oil lamps light the apartment. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Her hair was gray and stiffly oiled in scallops around her face. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z He didn’t say much more after that, the arthritis eating into his hips and the agony of the oil field accident that had cost him his leg too much for him now. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z When I get back to the house, Dad’s just washing up at the pump, using grease to get the oil off his arms. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z He leaped, dodged, and headed for the oil drum. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 The viscous oil clung to the skin and seared through the tissue. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The peaks looked like giant fried fish heads trying to jump out of a vat of oil. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z It breaks my heart to see her so pitiful, with just the top of her cabin showing, and a shine of oil spreading like blood on the water. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Another package holds gauze, herbs, and oils for healing. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z She knew the oil that ran in his veins instead of blood. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z “It’s like what Berenger said to Clemenceau: ‘He who owns the oil owns the world.’ Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The commonness of his name was a consolation, too; there were three Henry Smiths in any given oil field of reasonable size. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z With it up close to my face like this I could smell the gray metal of the barrel and the gun oil Mr. Amos used on it. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z Through bleary eyes, I took in the sight of the tahara room’s tile floor and the oil lamps casting their sullen glow. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z The water was filthy now, streaked with oil and spotted with detritus. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z After Jam’s surgery, Glass had come by the house every couple of days, massaging her feet and hands, dabbing oils on her temples and scalp, loving her with her hands. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z I saw that oil had spilled under the jeep and stained the driveway like a big Rorschach inkblot. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Cutting it fine so the fish oil will spread. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z He took down the doors and oiled the hinges—whether they needed it or not. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z They were banned from profitable crafts such as oil and landscape painting. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Demand for oil began to slacken significantly in 1982, and the result was a glut. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z She summoned the frightened maids and bade them give the stranger the oil so that he could cleanse himself and find for him a mantle and a tunic. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z From us, and from the oil, was Atal’s reply, and Mary knew she meant the oil in the great seedpod wheels. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The washers and driers in the basement laundry room rumbled well past midnight, and in the wintertime, the oil burner that kept the entire building heated drowned out all the other sounds. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z My father was mild, like the sea oil a windless day, with an unruffled surface and little variation. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z When Mama got home from the market, she watched us measure, mix, and smell the oils, then make labels for each one of them. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z The shelves were stacked with slabs of white meat, cans of oil, and sacks of meal. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z They try to boil her in oil but she rocks in the vat and takes a nap for herself. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “Your guessing this thing surprised me, as it took me ten years to think of it. Your second guess, sodium oil, was not as good. I tried it years ago. Eleven days.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z She bought oils and pomades, applying one and then the other, on wet hair and then on dry hair, willing an unknown miracle to happen. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Even if she hadn’t been near the water in days, we could still smell those fish oils in her skin. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z He carried me over to the sink and washed the oil out of my eye. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z The drawbridge came creaking down before she could reply, and they heard the sound of oiled chains as the portcullis was drawn up. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z On the night in question he’d checked the Islanders engine oil and quickly greased the net drum’s reel drive before putting out for Ship Channel Bank in the hour just before dusk. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z The proprietor had just lighted a hanging oil lamp which gave off an unclean but friendly smell. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The reds and blues were as bright as oil paints. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z And even though I remind her when I think about it, the car is way overdue for an oil change and a tune-up. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z He whipped the spatula in front of my face and little bits of hot oil flicked at me, burning my eyeball. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z After the overthrow of Mossadegh, public opinion in Iran was so against the Brits taking total control of the country's oil supply again that IOP was the United Kingdom's next best option. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z It’s a chain that’s powered by oil and gasoline and controlled by giant corporations. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Now there were shadows on the boxes and the pressure of a hand squirting oil from a can. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Like just about all the men and even some of the boys from school, he worked in the oil field. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Before bed, Mom had given me a couple spoonfuls of mineral oil. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I guess my mother was homesick for Virginia, where no one talked Dutch, and there was no smell of gas or oil, and there weren’t as many black people around. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The water itself was turgid, gray- green even on sunny days, oil slicked, and reeking of diesel fuel and seaweed. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z My pants were soaking wet with a combination of dirt, car oil, and urine. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Matty lengthened the wick and checked the lamp to be certain there was oil. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z They were all drinking wine and mopping up the oil and vinegar with pieces of bread. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z By the time they reached the hospital that oil would be off his face. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z But she slathers baby oil on her arms as she’s speaking. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z The last trace I saw of the ship was a patch of oil glimmering on the surface of the water. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z She’d thought ahead—after dinner she had oiled the hinge with a dab of lard. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z When the two monks finished cleaning the machine gun, Henry Dobbins began reassembling it, wiping off the excess oil, then he handed each of them a can of peaches and a chocolate bar. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He discarded the oil he had used to guard against baldness and rinsed with the lemon preparation regularly. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z There wasn’t much, mostly parts for the Prospector and a couple of chairs and Mom’s oil paintings and art supplies. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z But now, after his time in the oil room, all he could think of was how much he’d wanted Sloth to believe that his life was just as important as hers. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z His hand found nothing but air and mucky oil. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z We didn’t know that either, until an article appeared the next day in the Santa Monica paper, saying he had been arrested for delivering oil to Japanese submarines offshore. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Malcolm counted them out and put the first one in the vise while Mr. Taphouse put a second coat of Danish oil on the finished shutters to keep them safe from the weather. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Odessa was growing, the promise of good work in the oil field an irresistible lure. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z It shattered on top of the siege tower, drenching the dead wood in lamp oil. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z The sweet, slightly chemical scent of gun oil; the raw wood of newly constructed shell crates; the mothballed odor of old bedspreads—he’s in the hotel. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z His hair was oiled down, and he even wore suspenders with his pajamas. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z She wouldn’t listen, however, and after a few more stubborn requests, Milligan at last set down his oil can and shuffled over to them. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z The oil hissed at the touch of the hot metal. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Nobody would ask for a birth certificate here, he said; people were in and out of the school all the time because of the oil field. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Each of our spoons has a dark-yellow halibut liver oil capsule in it, shaped like a small football. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Her father’s clothes smell of straw; his fingers reek of oil. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z “Shut up,” I said, going back to my oil making. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z The thick voice rumbled on, pouring like oil from her fat throat. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z In the glow of the oil lamp, her eyes were as dark as jet, with the same mirrored sheen. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Drum oiled his on the mast of a sailboat that had been dumped in the marsh by a long- ago storm. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z He was like a human skeleton, down to less than a hundred pounds, but he was still a relatively young man, and his hair was black and curly and oiled with Vitalis. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I go upstairs with my oil rags and I open that cupboard for myself. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z They had phoned him that morning to say that the Germans might attempt to shell the refinery and the oil storage tanks, and that he must report to help fight the fires. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I go anyway through the ankle- deep water of flooded street corners, the brown pools slicked with spectral emulsions of engine oil and cooking grease, soot and sweat. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z In the winter he used oil to prevent chapping, and he kept the cuticles pushed down and his nails always filed to the shape of his finger-tips. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z It’s my usual route, and the hinges are well oiled. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Had he really needed the trucking business that cost him $4 million to move drilling rigs in and out of the oil field? Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Turner was thinking of a quiet room and a square table covered with a green gingham cloth, with one of those French ceramic oil lamps suspended from the ceiling on a pulley. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The resistant sweetness that breaks open at last to deliver peanut butter—the oil and salt which complement the sweet pull of caramel. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z I’d crawled under a car before to change my mom’s oil, and this wasn’t too different. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Mama shows everyone how to coat them with eggs and breadcrumbs, then fry them in a shallow pan with a little oil. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z And before I knew it, I was saying my conclusion, and Danny had begun his argument on why women could not make important decisions about war or about the prices of oil and gas. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z I felt a burning in my stomach, like a pot of oil was slowly starting to bubble inside. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z The magnets kept shorting out for reasons the engineers were able to diagnose only after opening one up, when they discovered its cooling oil had been thoroughly contaminated by rust, metal shavings, and sediment. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Though the late afternoon sun was slipping through the trailing edges of the oil cloud, it was warmer than ever. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The glow from the oil lamps failed to reach the bottom of the mikveh. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z I handed them to Rashid Uncle, who fried them in the hot oil. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z They might not grow in your world, Atal said, but if not, you have the oil. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z A blonde who resembled Marilyn Monroe was kneading him with suntan oil, and his lazy, beringed hand reached for a tumbler of iced orange juice. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z “Look at this. Somebody went abroad and brought it for me. My face creams finished months ago and I’ve been using that horrible Biafran-made oil.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Nailer again wished he could reach up and yank her down into the oil. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z That afternoon, Ammu traveled upwards through a dream in which a cheerful man with one arm held her close by the light of an oil lamp. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I glanced at him across the table, his nails chipped and black with engine oil, his knuckles scraped, the smells of the gas station—dust, sweat, and gasoline—on his clothes. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z A third cousin of Papa’s, Hopewell Stump, from out in Banks County, clerked and took care of the chickens that folks brought to trade out for nails, flour, sugar, coal oil, coffee, and chewing tobacco. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z The oil won't come off easily, I thought with a pang. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z I can hear Mam crying when she blows into the globe of the paraffin oil lamp and everything goes dark. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z I clean the black oil that crust on the conveyor belt and rollers and teeth. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Nearby, Marillion the singer sat oiling his wood- - harp, complaining of what the damp was doing to his strings. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z She could see that it had been carefully oiled and combed into ringlets. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z Within a week the ship jumpers possessed mill jobs—stacking lumber, sweeping sawdust, hauling slab wood, oiling machines—worth eleven cents an hour. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Matty had never noticed it before, because always they had been indoors, with the oil lamp glowing, at night. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z She certainly fed and bathed him, rubbed him with olive oil and gave him medicine. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z It was warm and soft and smelled like the honeysuckle oil she liked to put in her hair. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z Like the olive oil she used to condition her hair. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z The supermarket did not carry mustard oil, doctors did not make house calls, neighbors never dropped by without an invitation, and of these things, every so often, my parents complained. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z I bet these people don’t even know that car exhaust and engine oil once filled this place. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z It showed an artist’s colorful rendering of the new ROC, with huge shopping complexes, smiling people in sunglasses toting oversize shopping bags, a Corporation oil rig shining from the blue water in the background. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Her teacher ushered her into a beautifully appointed room lit with two globe-shaped oil lamps, one on the desk, one resting on a dark wooden stand carved with lotus flowers. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Quite soon they led Odysseus under the river bank, as they were bidden; and there laid out a tunic, and a cloak, and gave him olive oil in the golden flask. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z And once they reached those gates, the men inside could pour down boiling oil on their heads. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Also, prices of critical supplies such as oil, bread, and sugar had risen because of the policies of the government in the capital city of Khartoum. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z At night, your mother makes you drink castor oil, which she says tastes better than a green guava. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Flames crackled, adding the scent of burning pine to the overwhelming smells from all of Doc’s potions and oils combined. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z But the celebration would have to be short because there was only enough oil to last for one day. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z Essential oils were popular, and Mother had the best on the market. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z They stood waiting by the car while Master checked the oil and water. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Words must be typed and driven into place, parts must be oiled. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Even wicks for oil lamps; salt bags to scrub the teeth. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The large oak table was covered with jars of tincture and vials of essential oil, which I cleared away. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z She remembered a woman’s soft sleepy voice, a glowing cave, and feeling her lungs fill with black oil. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z She dressed “for work” in clothes that she changed out of the minute she came home, so that they wouldn’t get stained with oil, achiote, or tomato sauce. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z The air smelled of salt and fish and motor oil. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z After a few months, breakfast was delivered to us in the courtyard in old metal oil drums. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z No one knew exactly how much oil Lucky Strike had found and smuggled out. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z They made fun of my hair, oiled and plaited in neat rows, and of my skin, black as my father’s. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Ugwu had not really looked at her and now he noticed that her slender, dark arms and face were shiny-wet, as if she had bathed in groundnut oil. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z He has started sketches and studies for an oil painting he thinks just might be worthwhile. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z When a suburban-style shopping mall was built in 1980 at the height of the oil boom, it opened on the east side of town, just a few blocks away from Permian. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z It was oil, or grease, mixed in with beach sand, and it did not come away easily. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The air was rich with the scents of earth and grass, mixed with the smell of horseflesh and Dany's sweat and the oil in her hair. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z They came into town once a week, their skin scummy and stinking and blackened from oil and caked-on dirt, to get a bath and a shave at the barbershop. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Barely enough to keep the slick water shining with fish oil. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z The brisk air of spring did not dispel the stench of engine oil and festering wounds. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z They bathed and anointed themselves with the sleek oil, and had their lunch, and amused themselves with a ball which they threw to one another, dancing all the while. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m going to Port Harcourt with my father to meet some oil people,” she said. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z At night in his lonely French billet, William lighted his oil lamp and gazed at her photographs. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Only Oklahoma oil families can afford the rugs. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Galileo’s picture is an old oil painting, like something that should be hanging in the de Young Museum in San Francisco. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z Day 1: two hardboiled eggs, one steak, one tomato, spinach, lettuce with lemon and olive oil. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Dothraki men wore their hair in long oiled braids, and cut them only when defeated. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z If he brought another woman into the house, they were to gang up on her and play tricks on her, hit her, and trip her when she was carrying hot oil until she ran away. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Before me is a spread of colored pencils, oil pastels, charcoal. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z The road led directly north, toward a black cloud of burning oil that stood above the horizon, marking out Dunkirk. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z There they hung, three live men and one dead one, as the Lord of Light’s devout stacked split logs and broken branches under their feet, then doused the piles with lamp oil. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Let’s get in the oil drum. I look like a bear in these clothes.” Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The oil painting was a picture of the whole town fighting on Broad Street. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z His father turned off the oil lamp over the table, for plenty of morning light now came through the windows. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Polykaste, a fair girl, Nestor’s youngest, had meanwhile given a bath to Telemakhos—bathing him first, then rubbing him with oil. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z At Christmas, someone gave her an expensive bottle of blended essential oils. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “Oh, my sweet lord,” I sputtered, choking down a mouthful, “what is this? Fermented motor oil?” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Teach her what it felt like to die sucking oil. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Some were medieval paintings in gilt frames hardly bigger than CD jewel cases; some were rough pencil sketches of Renaissance statues; some were larger-than-life oil paintings. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z He filled the seams between the new planks with wool yarn unraveled from a scarf and then caulked them with Marston’s oil paints. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z You almost couldn’t believe people lived like this, burning trees to clear land, burning oil for heat and power, setting the atmosphere on fire with their weapons. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z It glistened with oil, and here and there shapes struggled to the surface and were pulled down again. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Each species depended on the other, and furthermore, it was the oil that made it possible. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z A tugboat sounds mournfully, pulling its cargo of oil drums. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Marcus led Aurelia and Boots to the back of the villa where the servants lived and where there were many storerooms and cavelike vaults for storing wine, olive oil, smoked meats, and other goods. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z Hi, she says in a voice as slick as motor oil. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a gray day, and when Muller’s service had lowered the casket with oiled and silent winches the hearse drove away and the husband filled the grave himself with a new shovel. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z I remember that on that moonless night in February 1942, they attacked the big Lago oil refinery on Aruba, the sister island west of us. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z What soon became known as “Seward’s Folly” would later be seen as a huge asset when silver and gold and oil were discovered in the new territory. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Twice Ralph called Ti Fifi on his cell phone to report that the ambulance had broken down—the engine tended to overheat when there wasn’t enough motor oil. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Frankie sat cross-legged across the room, working in the glow of an oil lamp. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z He pointed to a rusty half of an oil barrel that somebody must’ve been using for a barbecue. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z His chest and lungs still felt tender and the taste of oil lingered in his mouth. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Geryon was flipping burgers on a huge barbecue cooker made from an oil drum. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z “I’m swimming in oil. You tell Bapi I’m up to my neck in oil. Thousands of gallons. It’s worth his while to get me out. There’s a lot of oil for him here.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z They complained about black magazines never having natural-haired women in their pages, about drugstore products so poisoned by mineral oil that they could not moisturize natural hair. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z She tinkers with the guts of the car, getting her hands covered with oil. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z Busying herself until the heat in her cheeks subsided, she collected the lantern and rummaged around until she found oil to light it. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z When she had done, and smoothed me with sweet oil, she put a tunic and a cloak around me and took me to a silver-studded chair with footrest, all elaborately carven. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “The way your fats and oil boss liked you?” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z He can paint in oil, since his expenses are reduced by living at home, but he also keeps drawing—in pencil, black chalk, and colored ink—and uses watercolor. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The oil business and the film business had thrived in Los Angeles during the 1920s and 1930s. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z There’s a whiff of the bleach that is in our Mercury Home, but mixed with fried oil and what I used to call eau de cafeteria when I still ate lunch at school. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z I brought groceries from the store; twice he came to the back door as I was leaving the eggs and asked for specific things—he had run out of salt; he needed cooking oil. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z His hair was oiled and combed back off his forehead. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Dwight rode his bike round and round the yard, stirring up clouds of red dust while Burl hollered at him to stop ’cause he was trying to change the oil in his truck. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z ‘I will give you a horn full of oil.’ A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z There was an odd smell about the tractor, of cold oil and rust. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z We manage to produce a little extra palm oil for sale in Luanda, but most of what we grow is consumed here. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Specifically, by the giant oil painting hanging above the table, which I can only assume is an early portrait of BoJack Horseman painted by Leonardo da Vinci himself. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z With the flour and oil she got from trading eggs, Miss Maggie baked bread that made me happier than if I’d had cake, which I tasted only once in a blue moon. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z I have given up, too, on oil paints; I have come to dislike their thickness, their obliteration of line, their look of licked lips, the way they call attention to the brushstrokes of the painter. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z I cleaned my lantern and filled it full of oil. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z She bought oil lamps made from milk tins. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Later that week, Henry came home covered in mud and oil but happy as hell. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Donovan uncapped the tightly sealed container and from the oil bath within he withdrew a second cube. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z He had my monthly bills—phone, electric, and oil—on the coffee table. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z There the Graces bathed and anointed her with golden oil—a bloom that clings upon immortal flesh alone—and let her folds of mantle fall in glory. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The next night, when all the serious news about wars and oil prices and world food supplies had been talked about on the CBS evening news, the anchorman looked into the camera and smiled. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z If Aaron Giebel was thankful for anything, it was that his son Mark had been there to witness the terrifying things that oil and money could to do a man. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “I need some time, Skeeter. Space, I guess. I need to go to work and drill oil and... get my head straight awhile.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Their wounds were patched or covered, and they were oiled and prepared for whatever was to come next. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z One building had a row of giant oil lamps over the entrance to promote a sale on until October 31. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z He thrust half a dozen torches into the brazier’s glowing coals and watched the oiled rags flare up. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z She went out of the kitchen to prepare the herbs and oils she would need to affect her cure. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z If this was some room accidentally filled with oil, then there had to be doors. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Those crops prove to be ones like West African yams, oil palm, and kola nut—plants that were already believed on botanical and other evidence to be native to West Africa and first domesticated there. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Miss Carol’s voice is squeaky and high-pitched like a wheel that needs some oil. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z “I happen to love green beans, you know. When my dad sautés them in garlic with just a touch of olive oil...” George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z After removing the chicken from the oven, I spread the crinkled leaves of kale on a cookie sheet, sprinkled them with olive oil and salt, and slid them into the hot oven to roast. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The oil it was fried in was corn oil. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z He also bought a starter set of oil paints and some canvases. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z Any child who stayed in bed for more than one day in our house was dosed with cod-liver oil. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Alys leaned forward and turned the flame higher in the oil lamp. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Three jets with their wings folded were parked like maimed insects awaiting rebirth among the tools and oils of the men who swarmed over the broken-open jet in the hangar. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Ducking aerodynamically over my handlebars, I pedaled furiously into the thick, oily exhaust of the moving column . . . . . . while, back on Pingree Street, Milton is crouching behind the crenellated olive oil tins. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z There were illuminated stars on the tops of some of the oldest oil derricks, and across Main Street, spotlights shown on poinsettias placed on risers to spell “Merry Xmas!” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Her hair was not oiled and combed as usual, her eyes were bloodshot as though she had partaken of strong drink. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Acorns are nutritionally valuable, being rich in starch and oil. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z There she crouched among the oil drums and looked out on the sea. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The smell of oil was everywhere, heavy and pungent, exciting the senses. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Watercolors and oils, prints, drawings, sculptures in stone and bronze, all crowded together with nowhere for the eye to rest. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z She decorated the living room walls with her oil paintings, and soon every square inch was covered, except for the space above her typewriter reserved for index cards. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z There was a mirror—it had been very expensive—in one corner, and a little table in another one held the scents and oils. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z There were dirt beads on his sweaty neck and an oil stain on his face. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z This makes the oil stay solid at room temperature and so it can be used for margarine. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z A candle was lit, smelling of a protection oil, and I wondered if it was one of the ones me and Jay had made. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z But I smelled the coconut oil in her hair and the sweat of someone who’d been marching ten miles. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z But the Dreamers have improved themselves, and the damming of seas for voltage, the extraction of coal, the transmuting of oil into food, have enabled an expansion in plunder with no known precedent. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Next day at dawn, Akhilleus, we picked your pale bones from the char to keep in wine and oil. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Fathers liked Crane because there was steady work in the oil field. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z They called me “Kimbo,” which is the name of a brand of cooking oil sold in East Africa. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z “Let me get honey-glazed on a roll. Lettuce, tomato, mayo, provolone, sweet peppers, oil and vinegar, black pepper, meat and cheese, hot,” I rattled off like naming brothers and sisters I don’t have. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Hair brushed back, legs oiled, new dresses and pressed pleats, fresh pocket handkerchiefs and little handbags, all homesewn. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The fire is slow and smoky and I sprinkle it with the paraffin oil, it flares up, whoosh, and nearly takes my eyebrows off. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z From her plate he picked up the oil stick she hadn’t eaten yet, dipped it in the soybean milk. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Unique, unbleached, rich, the color of the finest materials on earth: oil, coal, volcanic sand. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Starting with that one truck he had built himself a company that specialized in oil field construction—building roads and drill sites. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I would use the ejector for steam and oil so those gauges would swing back and forth but come back to the middle. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I bet my dad berates him in between smiling at customers and answering questions about extensions and tea tree oils and treating chemically damaged hair. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z “No. Danish oil, boy. Best thing there is. You know what you got to watch out for with Danish oil?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z American planes took off from nearby aircraft carriers and made sixty-four sorties over North Vietnam, bombing their torpedo boat fleet and a major oil depot. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z “My parents would say to do what they did: ditch journalism, get really into essential oils, buy a cabin in the Vermont wilderness, and own six hundred LL Bean vests that all smell like patchouli.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z She put an omelet in front of him, with toast grilled on the stove with olive oil, or semolina pancakes, or a frittata with peppers and mushrooms. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z The single unblocked window revealed distant bursts of light where the castle stood, but inside the room it was dark except for a solitary oil lamp. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Then she would pick up a bottle of oil, press it to her chest and, with her eyes closed, say, “Do I need this?” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z In the night, you couldn’t even see the oil slicks on the water. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z It had startled him, too, how easy many other things became, how even just the semblance of wealth oiled his paths. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Mr. Frankweiler amassed a fortune from the corn oil industry and from developing many corn products. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z He would learn to cook fried rice and he would have to use less oil and he would take orders from her. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z From all through the building came the sounds of footsteps, of splashing oil, the occasional prayerful protest of some old one being forced to leave. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The shelves are lined with apothecary bottles that twinkle like jewels, as well as clear jars and magnificent flasks containing resins, balms, waxes, and oils made from flowers, plant secretions, and extracts. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z It was that perfect, perfect smell that would always take me back to the specific feeling of being a child: the scent of onions being sautéed in olive oil. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z She had oiled his hair while I kept away and wondered what Papa would say if he knew. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Mother was mixing oils in the kitchen, and she said nothing as I passed by with my dripping shirts and jeans. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, to its intense gratification, Pennsylvania had also discovered oil—not only discovered it but devised ways to make it industrially useful. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z We could switch oil the light, since this room doesn’t have any windows. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z I pour some oil of rosemary steeped in cloves onto a cloth. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z The Department of Agriculture, in a Home and Garden Bulletin, advises us to spray our clothing with oil solutions of DDT, dieldrin, chlordane, or any of several other moth killers. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Old and new are mixing together like oil and water, and I’m stuck here in the middle of it all. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z I get my rag and my oil soap, work my way up the staircase, polishing each spoke on the banister as I go. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z The sun beat down oil our heads as we made our way through the crowd, searching for our friends. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He brought them a large plate full of jumokbap, small fist-sized rice balls mixed with barley, seaweed, salt, sesame oil, and toasted sesame seeds, sitting on a white cloth to prevent sticking. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z The floor was a gritty cement and gravel mix, sticky in places, spotted with what looked like oil slicks. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Lobbyists from the oil, tire, and automobile industries, among others, had persuaded state and federal agencies to assume that fundamental expense. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z In the first half of the nineteenth century, owners of whaling ships amassed fortunes from oil and built the still well-preserved Federalist and Greek Revival mansions on upper Main Street. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z The schoolroom is plain, but the wall paint is fresh and the wooden floorboards newly oiled and the desks worn. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z The two monks were quiet as they cleaned and oiled the machine gun. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s not like we’re going to run out. Those pines grow up like weeds, don’t you worry. Hey,” he touched her arm lightly, “you can smell the oil.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z It looked like the entire city was bathing in oil and tar. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z The rings are seen by looking down on the lens from above, and the phenomenon is related to the way a thin layer of oil on water produces a swirling pattern of colours. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z It turned sharply downward and disappeared into the oil. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Brother Luke dripped oil into the lock before trying to open the door. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z A feathery breeze was stirring, setting the flames leaping and dancing, their reflections in the black glistening oil cavorting too. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z She spent all day working on oil paintings, watercolors, charcoal drawings, pen-and-ink sketches, clay and wire sculptures, silk screens, and wood blocks. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z An unseen hand turned off the radio as he crossed the threshold, and bags of potato chips vanished, leaving the faint scent of salt to mix with vermilion oil paint and wet clay. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z Crumbling brick warehouses, oil storage tanks, rusting cranes, and gritty factories lined both sides of the waterway. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The hair on her arms shone glossily, as if she had used too much palm kernel oil. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z That means turning to wind, solar, and hydroelectric systems for power instead of coal, oil, and natural gas. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z The pickle bottles stood in a pool of oil. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Meanwhile at Kirke’s hands the rest were gently bathed, anointed with sweet oil, and dressed afresh in tunics and new cloaks with fleecy linings. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The geometrical days, which go around and around, smoothly and oiled. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z An article a few weeks ago about the Senator said that Stuart moved his oil company down to New Orleans so that he can spend time out on the rigs at sea again. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z He blew air through his lips, pushing oil away from his mouth. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z He was drenched in sweat, remembered groggily that his daughter had put him to bed, had told him to stay there until the oil burner was repaired. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z My housekeeping tasks fall on the same day for every job I take: on Monday, I oil up the furniture. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Finally, I fill a plate with rolls and sit at the table, breaking oil bits and dipping them into hot chocolate, the way Peeta did on the train. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z He would probably be with his father at the forge, repairing pikes and lances and heating oil for pouring onto the enemy in case they should pierce the outer castle wall. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z All night long, mechanics refueled the planes and checked the oil and water levels as quickly as possible. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Jam went back to her hair, dabbing castor oil on her ends as she worked through a few tiny knots. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z He was pretty oiled up, for one thing. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z She sat with her coat on, holding herself, while her daughters beat flat the straw in the mattresses and lit the oil heater. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z When an auction for Osage oil leases was held in Tulsa in 2012, three leases sold for less than $15,000 in total. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The place was thick with the odor compounded of paint, linseed oil, and turpentine—and after a few moments the subtle aroma of stale beer. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z Also I beg you to buy those necessary supplies I took the liberty of advocating, as I would like you to begin using oils as soon as possible. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z Next day they could run farther, and soon their shoes were oiled and put away and they ran barefoot all day long. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z They put cod liver oil far back on her tongue so that some of it got down her. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z At one point his words slid together to form one word—sounds as confused as the threads of blue and green oil in the puddle next to my shoes. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Hassan said, “I'm a Kuwaiti exchange student; my dad's an oil baron.” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z It was like being in the oil room all over again, knowing that the only way to survive was to dive, and dive deep. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Gone are the big petroleum companies and the forests of derricks as the vast oil fields have been increasingly depleted. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Between the trees, a pumpjack humped the oil up out of the ground. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z His face was slashed, black oil dripping into his eyes instead of blood, but the wounds were already closing. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z As I understand by report I am much charged with starving the colony, I did always give every man his allowance faithfully, both of corn, oil, aqua vitae, etc., as was by the council proportioned. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z The repairs were dependent on the manufacturer’s engineers pulling the magnets apart, flushing the oil lines, and putting them back together properly. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He fought the urge to breathe, to give up and fill his lungs with oil. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z She spent whole days blending oils, making adjustments to achieve specific fragrances and attributes. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The pan is sputtering loudly and has showered the wall behind the stove with oil. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The sun had baked the oil out of Momma’s skin and melted the Vaseline in her hair. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Larger bodies of water, such as ponds, were treated with larva-killing oil. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z When the candle burned away, Mr. Milgrom struck a match and said that maybe it would last for eight days, like the oil in the story. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z “And so I’m stupid for thinking they might be useful. Because of something Johanna Mason said while she was oiling up her breasts for wrestling,” I retort. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z She reached over and took hold of the napkin and gave it a good shake, and Despereaux tumbled out of the napkin and landed right directly, plop, in a measuring cup full of oil. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z Mom scratches her nose against her forearm because her hands are turning fish in a bowl of cornmeal, coating both sides before she dips it into hot oil in a frying pan. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z He looked at her dark chocolate skin, which shone with oil, and lowered his head to her face. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z I never took my eyes off the gate, hoping at any moment she’d come running through it, panicked and out of breath, her hair glistening with that coconut oil she loved. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z He blew out the oil lamp to save fuel. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The air was filled with the smell of oil. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Cockroaches poured from under the door, spreading over the floor like an oil spill. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z But these are minute details, really, extra oil for inaudible squeaking. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Late in the afternoon there was talk of tonics and purgatives and cod-liver oil, but at that point I managed to rally and take some plain boiled chicken, averting such drastic management. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z “The planes were like explosives. Gallons and gallons of stinking oil, burning. Metal so hot, it lost strength, softened.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z A plasterer who had been in his rooms reported them furnished with statues, oil paintings, and white fur rugs. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Smoke billowed up from the hot oil, and Teashop Aunty turned back to the stove. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z “I oil the pistons,” he liked to say. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Fact: I would rather be deep-fried in boiling oil than sit through one of Caroline’s student council meetings. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z “It never needs its oil changed, grows over time, and when you’re done with it you eat it.” The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z “Well, not exactly. The main reason is that I don’t like to be dependent, particularly on electricity, rails, steam, oil, coal, machines, and all those things that can go wrong.” My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z They were part of the effort to keep the Germans away from the Soviet oil fields, which were so necessary to keep the gears of industry moving. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Jackson walks over to the table and lights the oil lamp. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Before she boarded the ship, they gave her a gift: a lacquer phial containing some of the wheel tree oil, and most precious of all, a little bag of seeds. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Ben had watched her at church and her pinched bloodless face and the stiffness of her bearing, as though her joints lacked oil, made him grant her a wide and respectful berth. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He had resolved not to build another oil company, but he did, A. F. Giebel Petroleum Consultants. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Out on the water, fires burned, oils somehow ignited and blazing despite the torrents. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z “Dear, could you give Tayo that money in my pocketbook? I think my stove is getting low on oil.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Telemakhos went on through to the storeroom of his father, a great vault where gold and bronze lay piled along with chests of clothes, and fragrant oil. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Just some room full of pooled waste oil. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z When she had washed and rubbed his feet with golden oil, he turned, dragging his bench again to the fire side for warmth, and hid the scar under his rags. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Dad talked about how spices used to be like gold or oil nowadays. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z I have doubts enough without your throwing oil on thefire of my fear. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z We had thought that the village was more than three days away, but after only a day and a half of walking, we began to smell the scent of cooking palm oil in the air. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Tins of lubricating oil in the afterholds had ignited and were exploding, but the ones forward had not been exposed to the fire. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z They had lost a small fortune in olive oil futures. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z There are no Alpine peaks or grinding glaciers, no great deposits of oil or precious metals, not a hint of a pyroclastic flow. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z 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 I slide underneath the truck, shaking, my face pressed to the concrete driveway that smells of motor oil. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I poked one of them and it rolled on freshly oiled wheels. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z The bed was made, most of the surfaces gleamed with a fresh coat of lemon oil, and a bucket and mop were propped up in the corner. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z North Korea has no oil, and its economy has never been able to generate enough cash to buy sufficient fuel or food on the world market. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Nothing permanent or disabling; he just dipped Westley’s hands in oil and brought a candle close enough to set things bubbling. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Yes, when I get my oil, I will fry you for breakfast.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I undress and lower myself into the silky water—my mother has poured in some kind of oil as well—and try to get a grip on things. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z The acrid stink of oil fills my nose. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z The train started to slow and then sped up again, then slowed again, and black steel girders covered with years of oil and dirt became dimly visible outside the windows. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z He oiled the clock and listened to it carefully. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z “Second catalytic ..He scratched at his chin. “To dissolve the oil that makes the feather smooth?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Antain loved woodworking—the stability of the material, the delicate beauty of the grain, the comforting smell of sawdust and oil. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Eight years later the facilities of the arsenal were leased to a private oil company for the production of insecticides. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Among them are the corn-fed chicken itself; modified cornstarch; mono-, tri-, and diglycerides; dextrose; lecithin; yellow corn flour; regular cornstarch; vegetable shortening; partially hydrogenated corn oil. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z With every mile she traveled now, the oil drums became more and more numerous and the tracks of the wolverine more and more scarce. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z One of those demure oil portraits of a lady with a book open in her lap and a lamb lying at her feet. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z His eyes shone from under the oil and dirt, blazes of blue in clouds of ash. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Logically they should have been united, not only by the common bond of oil that had kept them in clothes for sixty years, but by the bonds of loneliness. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Or maybe they’d been scared away by the food—herring in rancid oil, stale black bread, and some kind of butter that looked distinctly mossy. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z And the oil entered her blood and helped her see more clearly than before, and the first thing she saw was the sraf. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The acrid smell of burning oil in the cold room nauseated him. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z There is nothing decorating the room apart from the Massachusetts state and American flags and an oil portrait of a judge. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z His shop sold all kinds of stuff, from hair-care products to body oils to bootleg clothes to African statues. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z Twenty minutes later, I’m pretending to eat paella but really eating more bread dipped in olive oil than paella. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z When Theo leaves, Vincent buys new brushes, a watercolor box that he will use when painting outside, watercolors, and oil paints. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “In general, we do not want anyone to know we have oil.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z For a second he worried that the door swung inward and that he would never be able to drag the thing open against the pressure of oil holding it closed — The door blew open. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Crouched next to her, in the light of the flickering candle and one oil lamp, was the small German speaking wireless operator. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z His father was a mechanical engineer who had designed or invented a new drill bit for oil drilling, a self-cleaning, self-sharpening bit. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z “I can’t stay today. I’m heading to Dallas right now for an oil meeting and I’ll be gone three days,” he says. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Vendors in the bazaar, sitting behind pyramids of oiled, shining vegetables, grew to recognize him and would attend to him amidst the clamoring of their other customers. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Drogo's braid was black as midnight and heavy with scented oil, hung with tiny bells that rang softly as he moved. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z First the water glistened with patches of oil. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z “In that line of work there are as many dry holes as there are in the oil business.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z We lived in a little shotgun house, one room for the three of us, worked in the oil business, and then started my own. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z And Henry was mostly gone, often working twelve- and sixteen-hour shifts for days in a row until his team hit oil and they moved on to look for a new site. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z And true to the palm oil that flowed in her veins, she never had a visitor to whom she did not offer food before one word of conversation—business or social—began. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z The U.S. customs office was kept busy inspecting oil tankers from the Middle East which supplied crude oil to the refinery at Hess Oil. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z "It says here that you are charged with delivering oil to Japanese submarines off the coast of California." Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z An oil lamp hung from a hook on the low ceiling. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z She became a complete hippie before our astonished eyes, dressing in beads and berets and wearing sweet-smelling oils that, she said, gave you certain powers. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The process was endless because between each call there was a line of cars waiting to be filled with gas and oil, and all this had to be done with a stately slowness. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Meereen’s storehouses held ample supplies of grain, oil, olives, dried fruit, and salted meat, but the stores were dwindling. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z She’d had to rub her feet down with warm olive oil when she got back. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Thanks to those remarkable men, plus others uncounted who died on the way, Angola has wrested itself free of Portugal and still owns its diamonds and oil wells. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z A leopard skin was draped across one shoulder, and hair as red as blood tumbled to his shoulders in oiled ringlets though his pointed beard was black. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z In the service bay he dragged out the steel trash drum and tipped it over and pawed out all the quart plastic oil bottles. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Now, in the early morning privacy of the bathroom, Matilda unscrewed the cap of her father's oil of violets and tipped three-quarters of the contents down the drain. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z To some Osage, especially elders like Lizzie, oil was a cursed blessing. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z There were painted oil drums for garbage, and picnic tables, and sometimes fireplaces or barbecue pits. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The clouds thickened to the point where the sky grew black, and we lighted oil lamps inside the mess tent. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The oils were much more expensive than the tinctures; it was devastating when she had to throw out a batch because she couldn’t remember whether she’d added the spruce. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The view was slightly spoiled by the massive offshore oil rigs you could see in the distance, but if you could make yourself forget about them, you'd think you were in paradise. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z He talked about how to tell if there’s oil underneath a cotton field and I talked about how the receptionist and I were the only females working for the paper. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z “Orange season, oranges, persimmons, olives, and olive oil. “I have the passions of foraging, passion of hunting, opera, my work,” he told the reporter. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z In 1975, when my story ends, dwindling oil supplies again had people worried. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Wouldn’t she have asked someone who knew—“Suppose you gave croton oil to a person. What would happen?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z I take out the book again, the oil in the cover shining from the moonlight. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z “When I was little, I could hear the oil wells pumping,” Margie recalled. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z JT might be a cup of hot chocolate with whipped cream and sprinkles on the top, but his brother was castor oil. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z She broke her fast on sardines, fried crisp in pepper oil and served so hot they burned her fingers. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The contraption kicked him when he cranked, spat oil in his face when he looked into its bowels, squealed when he mashed the brakes, and rumbled ominously when he shifted gears. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z For a second they stared down at the juice, dribbled like car oil across their shoes. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I looked into this woman's face, her fuzzy jowls hanging like saddlebags, and I pictured her reclining nude in a shallow pool of peanut oil. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Mrs. Suggs gave her castor oil, but even that didn’t work. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Athena olive oil tins lined the front window next to a bust of Donizetti. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z In the meanwhile I was feeding oil to the cylinders and water to the radiator. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z It had, instead, a domestic smell—oil, ashes—that led him on. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z And there were great jars of oils and of wines. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z They speak of small things: the intoxication of kola nut, or how no food hath tasted right for these twenty years without palm oil. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z A sheen of oil lay on the water just below where scraps of rug had been nailed down to act as dockside bumpers. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Two young mechanics in loose jumpsuits smoke cigarettes with oil- creased hands. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Two weeks after her burial, Rose’s husband arrived loaded with ingots of gold for the children, two-dollar pieces for the women and snake oil for the men. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z I guess it’s some time after his fifth bourbon, I say, “So Hilly tells me you’re in the oil business. That must be interesting.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Each tessera is worth a meager year's supply of grain and oil for one person. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z “You think we would have an interest in controlling the Middle East if there weren’t oil there?” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z I get sacco beans, which are pinto beans marinated in oil and vinegar and crushed red pepper. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z The plane skidded for two thousand feet, severing an oil pipeline and snapping pine trees, before falling into a ravine and bursting into flames. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z She disappeared again, and I heard the crackle of the oil as it heated and the sighing sizzle as she dropped the flattened discs of dough in one by one. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z Odessa established itself as a distribution point for oil field equipment and experienced more growth in a month than it had in ten years, inundated by men who were called simply boomers. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I even like the oil stains on the concrete floor. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z He spent his money on herbs and plant roots and oils to make things like ointments for burns and cuts. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z We liked talking out our choreography, counting out the steps, and naming our crazy dances—the hot oil and flour, the butt pinch, and the pumpkin patch. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Ivanito helps her blend the coconut with egg yolks, vanilla, condensed milk, sugar, cornstarch, and salt, and holds the empty tin vegetable- oil containers while she fills them with the mixture. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “When I flew over that night the river was burning with oil, and everything on the ground was burning,” she said. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z But he didn’t, because in the gloom beyond the oil lamp, in the shadows, there were metal folding chairs arranged in a ring and on the chairs there were people, with slanting rhinestone sunglasses, watching. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I remember strange details about the moment we pulled into the parking lot—the smell of oil floating up from our leather gloves, the sandpaper feel of dust on my fingertips. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z It would be so easy— He came out of the oil like a whale surfacing, oil sheeting off his face. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z “Can substitute with olive oil,” in another place. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z An oil painting of a raven clawing its way out of a young boy’s chest caught my attention. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z His car was still running, and when the oil alarm light became hysterical again it was almost joyfully that Herbie tended to the motor’s gluttonous needs. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “Just show me which things you want oiled. I’ll remember. If I can remember the quota count, I can remember this.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z We bought some rice, some palm oil, salt, and fish; by the time we were done, the market was filling up with people hurriedly trying to buy whatever they could afford. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z How the Jews celebrated by lighting an oil lamp. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z Spoons clanked against pots, and the street filled with the steamy smells of garlic, hot oil, and spices. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z They filled her bath with hot water brought up from the kitchen and scented it with fragrant oils. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Then he offered a counter-rumor: two hard-boiled characters from the oil camps had purportedly been seen with Anna shortly before her death, and had afterward skipped town. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z We used Fab laundry detergent to wash our hair because soap and shampoo were too mild to cut the sulfur and oil in the water. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z The scents of pine oil, tar, and sawdust hung in the air. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z He should have made more offerings to the Scavenge God and the Fates after he got out of the oil room. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z For a few minutes it was like watching oil and water: white folks on one side, blacks on the other. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z I bought baby powder for the oil in my hair. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z The room was bright and smelled like it had just been cleaned with the same oil soap my uncle used on our floors. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z “I probably wouldn’t have made it out of the oil room if it weren’t for him. He’s the one who taught me to swim. You think I don’t owe him something for that?” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z The spot where he usually parked one of his carts was empty; a huge amoeba of oil stained the concrete floor. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z The oil comes mostly from the Middle East, the corn comes from Iowa, the beef is slaughtered has to be shipped by truck across the country to a Wal-Mart or McDonald’s near you. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The corn, on which I’d rubbed some olive oil and sprinkled salt and pepper, would take only a few minutes. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z It’s more ornate than the one in the pantry, the wood smooth and varnished and still smelling faintly of lemon furniture oil. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Randall’s visitors sipped spiced rum as Big Anthony was doused with oil and roasted. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z She was barefoot, with oiled hair, wearing Dothraki riding leathers and a painted vest given her as a bride gift. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z She wishes we had a drop of hair oil in the house but water and spit will keep my hair from sticking up like black straw in a mattress. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z I set it on the chair next to me and sipped tea with honey and cinnamon while Mama loosed my hair, then oiled and combed and brushed it as gently as she could. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Soon as they sold some cars, she was going to order sirens, hill holders, auto robes—“wind, water, dust, and oil proof”—and chain pulls for getting out of mud or sand. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z She pushed one of them aside and went into the former classroom, where a group of half-dressed soldiers were oiling their weapons. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Now she was moving away to a land she knew little of, except the skillet of olive oil with crumbles of garlic and pine nuts browning on the stove. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z The pollen at the tips of tulip anthers is not so much powder as it is tiny balls of oil. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z They went to the front of the stall, where a man tended a pot of boiling oil. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z The wheelhouse in which they had ridden, a huge double-decked carriage of oiled oak and gilded metal pulled by forty heavy draft horses, was too wide to pass through the castle gate. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z She beat Lyddie to work in the mornings and had two of the machines oiled and gleaming before Lyddie even entered the room. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z When we got there I was wore out, and the heat and burning oil had made a dirty brown mess out of the Pierce’s neat new engine. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z As he did every morning, he took a deep breath and stared at the lamp on his desk—a tiny flame that burned night and day, fueled by magic olive oil from the supply room. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z At one of these ends there was an enormous camera on wheels, and a whole army of Oompa-Loompas was clustering around it, oiling its joints and adjusting its knobs and polishing its great glass lens. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z It was a good meal and I licked my fingers, enjoying the rich palm oil. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z He was the central clown in an unconscious travesty of that famous oil painting, “The Spirit of ’76.” Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘But where are the drops of oil I entrusted to you?’ asked the wise man. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He sautéed onions and garlic in olive oil for marinara sauce. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z The UN’s refugee agency had heard about all of us waiting in that field, and they arrived with dried corn, beans and lentils, oil, and salt. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Its carapace shimmers like spilled oil on water. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z The rigid frame held a skin of oiled silk in place to contain the hydrogen, and although this was tough enough to withstand minor scratches, a hundredweight of blazing rock was too much for it. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z The woman’s rickshaw was ancient, but well oiled. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z There’s a trash can, an oil drum spray-painted blue, near the front door of Blue Spot Liquor. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z We are at the gates to the Caucasus, proclaims Hauptmann’s radio, we have taken oil fields, we will take Svalbard. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z His long black braid was shiny with oil. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z This oil was the only thing needed to perform the ritual, that and the holy authority resting in my father’s misshapen hands. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Most of the oil field work was for whites only, but because of the oil there were fat cats to chauffeur, dance halls to clean, ditches to dig, pipes to lay. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z When the kitchen door squeaked she oiled the hinges and then the lock that turned too hard, and while she had the oil can out she oiled the front-door hinges too. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “God dog could he run!” was the only way Ken Hankins, an independent oil producer who had been born in Odessa in 1933 and was a die-hard Odessa High booster, could possibly describe it. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Eze was the wealthiest man in the room, an owner of oil wells, and as many of the Nigerian wealthy were, he was free of angst, an obliviously happy man. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z He had sewed it a new outfit, and oiled and polished its mechanisms. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z She looked at the little houses surrounded by boats, oil drums, tires, buckets, broken cars, and rags and bags, and happily followed her new parents home. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z At the foot of the bed was my flat trunk, and my winter boots, the leather shiny with oil, were on the trunk. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z All camouflaged up, her face smooth and vacant, she seemed to flow like water through the dark, like oil, without sound or center. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The United States cut off oil exports to Japan. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z But they all had the flickering reflection of an oil lamp on each lens. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he placed the oiled pan on top. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z There, light from the window of thick oiled paper falling golden on their faces, the two young women sewed and talked. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z “Dear guests, I would like to say a few words. Energy is the force of life. Tomsk has oil, coal.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z A whole sleeve had been torn off and his arm, streaked with blood and oil, hung limply by his side. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z The smells in the shop—dry-toasted maize, melting farm cheese, squash flowers sauteing in home-pressed oil—were causing my stomach to direct urgent messages to my brain. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I stared intensely at the shiny circle of oil in the middle of my broth. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z That fat would be turned into oil that made a rich cream for skin, and could also be used for cooking. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z The hair on his head was as thick and oiled as an otter’s pelt. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z They lived in cedar slat huts lit by oil lamps and slept on straw-filled ticks. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z It wasn't an oil derrick but an enormous Japanese fishing trawler with two tall cranes for hauling up their vast nets. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Vikus gestured to a small oil lamp that illuminated a panel of the wall. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z He put it all to boil in a pot of castor oil until he got a thick and pestilential syrup which was more like common caramel than valuable gold. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Aside from keeping the door hinges so well oiled that the slightest touch made them swing open easily, he offered no more inducements than other saloon keepers. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 “Of course there’s okra. Probably covered in oil.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z The more White investigated the flow of oil money from Osage headrights, the more he found layer upon layer of corruption. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z She tossed the eggplant in the hot oil and it made a loud, angry hissing sound. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z They finally settled for bicycle, because oil was oil, and bicycle was the only kind that Ken owned personally. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z He leaped over the side and struggled toward shore, splashing through water covered with blotches of burning black oil. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “That was fats and oils. I still have a hand in it.” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z There, surrounded by the sweet scent of old motor oil, I lay down on the floorboards next to a gutted transmission and passed out. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z When we finally got to the barn, we found an old oil lamp hanging just inside the door. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z The amount was initially for only a few dollars, but over time, as more oil was tapped, the dividends grew into the hundreds, then the thousands. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z At the same time the wellhead price of U.S. oil dropped to $9.25 a barrel. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z "Better do what he says or he'll have you boiled in oil." The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z ‘I got two hard-boiled eggs—already stuffed—with separate little packages of salt and pepper. And sandwiches—blackberry jelly with butter. Everything wrapped in oil paper. And paper napkins.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z This hole led to the room above, where there was a big cauldron, for boiling lead or oil. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Harrison came in and placed a bowl of oil before Baby. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “I do not want an apprentice,” Antain said as he rubbed oil into the curve of the wood. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z With the two bowls of red and white slip before him and an oil lamp just beyond, Kang sat in profile to Tree-ear’s view, using his wheel as a worktable. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z I scribble a note to my mom to tell her we’ve gone out and prop the paper between the ketchup and the cod-liver oil. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z And when it gets a spot on it, he waves it over his head and screams, “I struck oil! Grease in the Middle East!” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Glass jars of green oil— Greek fire—lined one shelf. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z In the burning of coal and oil and gasoline, we are also putting sulfuric acid into the atmosphere. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He aided the Osage before they were flush with oil money, donating to charities and schools and a hospital. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Violet sat down on the wide steps nestling her bag of irons and oil and shampoo in the space behind her calves. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Every morning they circled the large, empty oil barrels that served as garbage cans. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z It’s enough to tell you that we’ve divided many things like meat and fats and oils and are frying, our own potatoes. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Kaede’s fingers were smeared with salt and lightly greased with oil from the bread. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z He leads me to the repair area, where a large wooden table is covered with tools and parts and metal bits and oil stains. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z He makes one of his first oil paintings, View of the Sea at Scheveningen, with a fishing boat and several figures on the beach. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Sumpweed, in particular, would have been a nutritionist’s ultimate dream, being 32 percent protein and 45 percent oil. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He spent his days away from everyone else—working with wood and metal and oil. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z “We’re on a secure channel in case the Mud People have started underground monitoring. You never know. An oil tanker from the Middle East intercepted a transmission one time. What a mess that was.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z There was need of paraffin oil, nails, string, dog biscuits, and iron for the horses’ shoes, none of which could be produced on the farm. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z May’s broom could barely keep up with it, and our oil heater could scarcely hold its own against the drafts. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z You could tell he was a little oiled up. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z Lucky Strike had found an oil pocket on a ship and bought his way free. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z The combination of olive oil, hearty vegetables, and cheese that comes from goat's milk, mixed with decent servings of fish and meat, had been shown in numerous studies to promote longevity. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z William Burns had once investigated Comstock for allegedly assisting an oil company in a scheme to bribe the Osage Tribal Council for a favorable lease, but the charge was never proven. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “You must stop,” he said as she set him on an upturned oil drum, in the feeble light of one of those anbaric bulbs that swung on its cable overhead. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Above us, stern nuns in crisp whites watched our intrusion from the strokes of a massive oil painting housed in a gilt frame. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z Near us, two sailors with axes chopped at lines, and two big life rafts plunged toward the water, which looked blade except for pools of fire from burning fuel oil. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The pungent scent of hot oil hit him as he stopped near the counter. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z The spray — one- half pound of DDT to the acre in a solution of oil — filtered down through the balsam forests and some of it finally reached the ground and the flowing streams. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Finally she took the eye-dropper from her pocket and squeezed two drops of croton oil on the string beans and stirred it in. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z While the service station checked his oil and tires, Doc washed his face and combed his beard and when he came back to the car a number of potential hitchhikers were waiting. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Dr. Philobosian smelled like an old couch, of hair oil and spilled soup, of unscheduled naps. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Metal crunched, glass shattered, oil spewed, and the hangings went up in a great whoosh of flame. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Yet half of the 500 calories in a large order of fries come from the oil they’re fried in. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z I was numb, I was half-deaf, I was sick, shaking, stinging, and smudged with dirt and oil. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z “You’ll have to force feed her—strong soup and eggs and cod liver oil.” Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z He passed die stairway to the pilothouse and squeezed past the extra cargo, crates of Kalamata olives and olive oil, sea sponges from Kos. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z She made an oil for migraines and an oil for menstrual cramps, one for sore muscles and one for heart palpitations. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The pigment and heavy oils came free of the bottom much quicker, and when Kimbro returned I was going at top speed. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Two oil lamps cast their yellow glow through the space like a pair of great eyes watching for movement in the dark. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z The door swung open on oiled iron hinges, making not a sound. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He finds the best places in the city to buy oil paints and fine drawing brushes. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Zeitoun had spent the better part of ten years on ships, carrying everything from fruit to oil. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z She began buying single, unmixed oils—eucalyptus and helichrysum, sandalwood and ravensara—and the house, which for years had smelled of earthy bark and bitter leaves, suddenly smelled of lavender and chamomile. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z ‘Meanwhile, I want to ask you to do something,’ said the wise man, handing the boy a teaspoon that held two drops of oil. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The 588th was sent to help prevent the Germans from taking over the Caucasus region between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, an important source of oil for the USSR. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Lush tall grasses spread as far as the eye could see, a rolling green expanse that was disturbed only by a few small, rusted oil pumps and by cattle grazing here and there. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The soot was gone, the oil in the waters, everything shone brightly under the blaze of morning tropic sun. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z With me, it’s regular checkups, new filter every fifteen hundred miles, and new oil every three thousand. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The food particles compressed to less than half their original size, but the oil was barely affected at all. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The room was dingy and windowless, lit by a single oil lamp dangling from the low ceiling. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z “It’s like nothing else you’ll ever see. Loud as heck, too, when that oil comes up. Might want to plug your ears.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z It seems the fats and oils aren’t being doled out fairly, and Mother’s going to have to put a stop to it. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Her hair secret, a bottle of almond oil, stands on her dresser. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z Mrs. McCullough, she was sure, must have an array of bath products at her disposal: all those lotions and soaps and creams made just for babies, rich with shea butter and almond oil and lavender. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Lighting the gas stove no longer took much thought, and she knew how to handle the oil- and mud-stained laundry Henry left in heaps for her to wash. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Her father was alone in the solar when Harwin and Fat Tom marched her in, an oil lamp glowing softly at his elbow. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Compounding the situation was the gradual depletion of the oil fields. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z It had rained during the night, washing away any whiff of oil field sulfur stink. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z And she tossed her head, prettily, so that the light of the oil lamps caught her perfect golden curls. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z In 1987, the amount of oil produced in North America had actually been the same as the amount of oil produced in the Middle East, about 12.5 million barrels a day. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The entry doors are made of wrought iron and glass, and just past them, marble columns and impressive oil paintings of bearded white men line the hallways. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Gradually, like sloshing oil his thoughts settled back and the panic was gone. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z The Osage were also able to retrieve at least a portion of the oil funds mismanaged over decades by the U.S. government. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z After we had eaten, and rather well, and there were no crackers left, and the oil in the saucers had run dry, we walked to the town. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z After the tea was done, he started to heat the oil for poori just like Kazi used to do every morning at home. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z “Are you Kainene’s business associate? Are you in oil?” he asked. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z I discovered pools of oil and pus under my skin. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z I turned the gas down low and, after rubbing a little olive oil on the chicken pieces, arranged them on the grill among the apple branches. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z When Naomi asked, Muff had said that carrying a revolver was usual for the oil field, or had been. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z I imagined he worked by oil lamp, cutting and sewing leather well into the night. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z The stink of petroleum or oil blows across with the fumes of powder. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z “All you robots do is lie about and drink machine oil. I ought to send you to the dump.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Tissue culture was the stuff of racism, creepy science fiction, Nazis, and snake oil. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z A black Santa oil painting hung above the mantel, which was itself lined with black Santa figurines. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z I was like the Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz when he needed to be oiled. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z Zeitoun washed away all the sweat and grime, and what he assumed was a fair amount of oil and raw sewage. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z People were playing music and dancing, children were running around, and there was that familiar good smell of cooked cassava leaf in rich palm oil. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Today’s ephemeral wealth of some of the region’s nations, based on the single nonrenewable resource of oil, conceals the region’s long-standing fundamental poverty and difficulty in feeding itself. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The night was full of noises: bursts of drunken laughter, two raucous voices raised in song, the clatter and whine of some badly oiled machine in a basement. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “Looking down at the spoon he held, the boy saw that the oil was gone. “ The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “Change the oil and check the differential. Fill it up and then get some sleep.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z There were oil paintings and an ancient piano and expensive china cups. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z Pulling over into a gas station, Herbie discovered that his engine was out—out!—of oil, and he fed in two and a half quarts. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z My dad couldn’t come because he got a call around five thirty that afternoon to haul some oil well equipment up to Harrison. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z The oil deserts of the Near East, the opening lands of South America have felt the thrust. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “A stone of no great size which the priests of Delphi anoint every day with oil.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 The boy looked out at Jones through his swirls of oiled hair. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Vincent is still learning how to paint well in oil, and struggling with faces and figures. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The chicken was browning nicely, the skin beginning to crisp and take on the toasty tones of oiled wood. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z An unlit oil lamp hung on the wall beside the door, the patch of will behind it was singed soot black. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He wore an Aussie outback hat, which was large, wide-brimmed, and made of chocolate-brown oiled leather. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The servant cooked the morsels in sesame oil, and the wonderful aroma made Wei laugh. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The fire on the hearth burned slowly and the wavering light from the oil lamp made shadows on the wall. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Around the spire of Alcyoneus, oil bubbled, then churned and erupted like a boiling cauldron. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z “The lock needs to be oiled,” she muttered. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z That means hydrogen is forced into the oil molecules. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z “Ahhhh! Ahhhh! The children will need this. My mother said children need fat and oil. She was not educated, but she could feel that this was true. She fed us fish whenever she could get.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z A driller grabbed Phillips and pulled him off the platform just as the earth burst open and a black column of oil spewed into the air. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The germ is then squeezed for corn oil. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z “You mix the cowpea flour and palm oil, then you steam-cook for hours. You think you can ever get just the cowpea flour? Or just the palm oil?” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z "Then all we got to find is where he keeps the oil." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z That, along with the fact that I could push up on the end of my nose and make oil pop out of my pores, was just one of my special talents. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z “Our oils are so good,” he said, “we’ve started eating into the profits of the large corporate producers. They know all about them Westovers in Idaho.” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Jam and Redemption sat at the table, and Bitter slid them a plate with some dodo on it, the oil draining away on folded paper towels. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z The women who worked for her stopped concocting tinctures and bottling oils and instead made vats of salve—a new recipe, of comfrey, lobelia and plantain, that Mother had concocted specifically for my father. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z After his release, he went to work on an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico but was laid off in the fall of 2008. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Then Matty took the fish and laid it in the pan, swirling the oil around. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z He smelled like old sweat and rancid oil. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “You know, you might want to tell Mrs. Malloy to put some honey, lemon, and eucalyptus oil in a jar. That will help your achy throat.” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Then he said in his conclusion that women were better cooking with oil and passing gas. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z He pulled the wick out of the bottle and poured the bottle about half full, old straight weight oil thick and gelid with the cold and a long time pouring. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z An old man woke and staggered to the stove to warm his peppered coconut oil. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He took another leisurely bite of the oil stick before proffering it to her. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z It tasted like burnt toast dipped in motor oil and made me want to throw up. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z A guard inside dumped down a bucket of oil on the first men to reach the gates, but as he’d had no time to heat it, the bucket caused more damage than its contents. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Marland, the oil baron who found the Burbank field, had built a twenty-two-room mansion in Ponca City, then abandoned it for an even bigger one. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Jhiqui laid her down to oil her body and scrape the dirt from her pores. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Oh, no, they want the nice boys with hair oil and new shoes that have fathers with suits and ties and steady jobs. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z The water was so dark and smooth it looked like oil. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z He laughs into Henry’s mouth, instantly caught up in his own dramatic mental portrait of the two them painted in oils, young icons of their nations, naked and shining wet in the lamplight. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z And the old oil lamp was hanging over the center of the table, shedding its unstable yellow light from the round Rochester wick. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “It’ll give you a glimpse of some of the riches that oil brought to Oklahoma.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z He breathed the air outside the doors and it smelled like trains, diesel oil, and creosote ties under the steel track. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Bread and wine, water, oil, salt, and ash—through ceremonies of guilt and redemption, sorrow and rebirth, through the passing liturgical year, my boyhood assumed all significance. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Olanna opened the door, wearing the apron that had an oil stain in front. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z On a Wednesday I took off work time, packed a bag, and drove up the turnpike to 1-75I had changed the oil in my car, and had the brake pads replaced and the engine tuned. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z She seemed so far away, yet I sensed the heat from her body, smelled the rosemary oil she rubbed on her hair. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z There’d be sawdust on the floor, cobwebs on the ceiling, and the smell of iron and machine oil everywhere. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Their company would do with tobacco what John D. Rockefeller had done with oil and J. P. Morgan with steel: it would dominate the market and absorb or wipe out virtually all other manufacturers. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z They rolled over to the edge of the burning oil. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Odessa also became tough and quick-fisted, filled with men who hardly needed a high school diploma, much less a college one, to become roughnecks and tool pushers on an oil rig. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Whenever I get off an airplane, I feel like I’ve been deep fried, dripping in oil. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z And I love to watch the boys climb up palm trees to cut down the oil nuts. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He was not sure he wanted to have one of those conversations so many Biafrans had now, passing kernels of blame to others, oiling their own faces with a valor they had never had. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Marcus dressed carefully and presented himself to his father with his dark curly hair tamed with scented oil. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z They could no longer afford lantern oil, so she burned branches, and when her eyes watered from the smoke, she sewed her tears into the lotus ponds. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z Her skin matches the exact shade of mine—a sugared beignet fresh from the oil, golden brown and glistening under the lantern light. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Judith invited her into her house and the three of them huddled close to the oil stove. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z She was pouring bright reddish-orange palm oil into a pot. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z ‘Dad,’ said Kat, ‘d’you mind if we stop by the shopping centre again? I want to get a present for Auntie Glo. Some bath oil to help her relax.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z The room smelled like wax, candles, oil lamps, tobacco, burning stove wood, whiskey, dirty clothes, and leather boots. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Mudd lit an oil lamp and dialed up the flame to permit a proper examination of his new patient. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He pours oil into Malachy s mouth and has the teeth out in a minute.Then he looks at me and says to Dad,Why is that child standing there with his mouth hanging open? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z They have baby oil spread on their bodies. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z I asked Dr. Tamba if he knew where we could get some rice and fish stew in palm oil, some cassava leaves or okra soup. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Add it all up and you find that every bushel of corn from an industrial farm requires about half a gallon of oil to grow. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z I prowl around to the servants’ entrance, thinking to leave the oil in the kitchen. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z The Masks packed suitcases with the things they would need: herbs, dried animals, noxious oils and an assortment of knives. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z “You can pump oil out of the ground, and water, too. But sap—you can’t pump sap. It either decides to come up or it doesn’t.” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z In field reports, the agents noted excitedly that their “undercover man” had begun to work among “the crooks in the oil fields and get the evidence he has promised us.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The oil lamp to her right bathed one side of her face in lambent light; the other was cast in shadow. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Frightful dropped lower on the spruce tree and waterproofed her feathers with the oil from her tail gland. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Gradually the citizens of Wethersfield claimed their orders, the merchants from Hartford counted off the barrels of nails and oil and salt and only a handful of idlers still stood about. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z Of course you have burned a man’s property—barn, farm implements, hay, and grain; you have polluted his well with coal oil and terrified his family. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z I know he is just charcoal and oil crayons on the old stony wall. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z Many noble creatures had died here, died and been dissected for a few bars of soap and some heating oil. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z We went on over to Lizabeth’s and I roast us a chicken and made a tomato and basil salad with hunks of cheese and olive oil drizzled on top. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z She talked art with the older students, and they told her what they were working on, why they preferred knife to brush or acrylic to oil, or Fujicolor to Kodachrome. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z There are no swamps, no oil fields, no seltzer oceans. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Our illness is treated with contempt, foul Black Draught, and castor oil that blunts our minds. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z The Mellower’s mother rubbed them with olive oil. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z To their left, somewhere in the distance, Percy heard rumbling and creaking, like a huge machine needed oiling. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Vincent finds oils easier to paint with than watercolors, and loves to lay the paint on thickly, a technique called impasto. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The fire glowed in the fireplace and she had lit the oil lamps. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z I checked to make sure we had everything—the vegetable oil, the brown sugar. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z He tilted his nose to the sky, letting the oil lap higher, up around his cheeks, closing around his mouth and nose. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Hub Heap, who came out here in 1939 and later started a successful oil field supply company, remembered well the single event that embodied his early days in Odessa. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z At two, having eaten a lunch of fried eggs and Jerusalem artichokes, canned pears and bread spread with clover honey, he went out to change the oil in his tractor. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z “You took a lot of cuts. Skin’s supposed to protect you, but water’s dirty here, and you were in oil.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z “I need to talk to you, Maleeka,” he says, taking a napkin and wiping some oil off my chin. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z But Winnie was adamantly opposed, thinking it unhealthy and outdated, and instead smeared Zenani with olive oil, plastered her little body with Johnson’s Baby Powder, and filled her stomach with shark oil. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “I was just saying that the Nigerians who keep complaining about the oil companies don’t understand that this economy will collapse without them,” Dapo said. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Sweat and specs of splattered oil dotted his face. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z He was already signed up for tesserae, which entitled them to a meager supply of grain and oil in exchange for his entering his name extra times in the drawing to become a tribute. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Not when oil well millionaires and timberlands owners and god-knows-who-else get away with murder and pay nothing. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Even now, fifty years later, the smell of oil lamps always makes me think of the manor house. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z “You carried oil of vitriol knocking about in a sack? It is infinitely dangerous, my boy.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z I inhale the musk of his aftershave, a whiff of hair oil. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z The hall was gloomed with the dot of yellow light from an oil lamp turned down so low that it jerked expiringly. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Tuve’s version was made from copper and wire wound about a hollow three-foot glass tube submerged in a pressurized vat of oil to suppress sparking. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The pickled mangoes had absorbed oil and expanded, making the bottles leak. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Though the sky was still bright with sunset and nothing stood between the fire and where he sat, shadow pooled around him like thick oil. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z They unclipped the spool and rolled it over to where they’d set up their stripping operation near the oil tanker’s prow. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z She preened, then touched the gland near the top of her tail and lubricated her dry feathers with its oils. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Why not treat valuable cells like oil, he said. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z About midday I saw in the distance what I first thought was an oil derrick. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z The leather was dark and oiled smooth as a used saddle. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Behind the oil burner, a dark gap showed in the wall at about shoulder height and ran back under the breezeway, out of sight. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z “Besides, my daughters have no interest in art. I never got to teach them anything about paintbrushes or oils. This will be fun for me.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z The pumps were dry; there wasn’t even a can of oil in the place. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z I could lose myself for hours arranging typeset, inking and oiling the presses. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z “Then when? Five years we’ve been married and no children. You’re always sick, tired, this, that. Have you been taking the castor oil?” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “Here,” Osh said, pulling a twist of oil cloth from his pocket. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z Besides their kids, some of Muff’s family had driven up from the Beaumont oil field. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z The door swung open noiselessly, as Butler knew it would, having oiled every hinge in the house himself. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z She opened the top bureau drawer and examined the bottles which constituted the medicine chest of the house— paregoric, Pain Killer, Lydia Pinkham, iron wine tonic, Hall’s Cream Salve, Epsom salts, castor oil, ammonia. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z When you’re through, The dog will lick Your palms for the flakes Of oil and salt, And he will wag His tail And pump his legs In his parade Of dog happiness. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z They prayed over me, sprinkled cinnamon in my bath, massaged my stomach with olive oil. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “Carve his name on the candle five times and anoint it with these oils,” he instructs. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z By the beginning of March, I had sunk into the state of mind you get into when you know you have to take castor oil and there’s no way out. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Later, when she went into the bodega to buy olive oil, she saw Poli sorting tomatoes in the window. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z It reported, “These Indians became accustomed to lives of glorious ease. But now...their income from oil is rapidly disappearing, and that was practically all they had.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Useless without the precious oil that had once fueled them. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z School has started, and Frieda and I get new brown stockings and cod-liver oil. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Rumor said that the Singer, whose only job in the village was the annual presentation of the Song, prepared his voice by resting for days and sipping certain oils. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He had strikingly long, thick, oiled black hair, and a hawk-thin face with a proud curl to his lips. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z From the food stalls came the spluttering of ghee and oil as bread and pancakes were fried, ready for the early worshippers who would soon be coming. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z The air smelled of iodine and hair oil and filth. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Kira, reporting near midday as she had been ordered by the messenger, walked alone down a long hallway lit on either side by sputtering flames from tall sconces fed with oil. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He just took the last few gulps of his coffee, a little trickling down his chin, black like oil. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Thomas watched in sick fascination as the Griever twitched uncontrollably, spewing the yellow oil in every direction. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Their bodies were smeared with oil so that their hands slid as they tried to grasp at each other. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z In 1927, as story after story in the Odessa News heralded new strikes in the oil field, the only non-oil-related activity that made the front page was the exploits of the Odessa High Yellowjackets. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The purgante was her own concoction, a mixture of cod-liver oil and mugwort, milk of magnesia, and green papaya juice, sweetened to disguise the fishy, bitter, chalky taste. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z If he was really unlucky, he was in one of the main oil reservoirs. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Washed away on a tide of soap, salt and castor oil. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Then she pressed the plates together and moved them around to spread the oil evenly, and held them a hand span apart once more. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Meanwhile Nicolas had gone to fetch Amanda in old Covadonga, which still ran, though it barely sputtered along on its remaining nuts and bolts, lost in a black cloud of burning oil. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly, one of Mom’s oil paintings came flying through an upstairs window. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “There’s plenty of oil, my lord,” he said. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z On those days I had the thrill of getting up even earlier, grooming Quince until she shone, plaiting her mane and tail, oiling her hooves, then traveling with her in the horse trailer. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z And the dull, sullen sound of the boatmen’s bamboo poles as they thudded against the dark, oiled boatwood. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The pain was beyond the bailiwick of crushed aspirins or oil of cloves. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Great oarsmen and oarswomen are necessarily made of conflicting stuff—of oil and water, fire and earth. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z They worked quickly, accustomed to one another and the labor: Pima, their boss girl, taller than the rest and filling out like a woman, black as oil and hard as iron. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z The nymphs disappeared, and water poured from their alcoves—sickly dark water, like oil. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z He explained how to use the round oil lamps; how to strap the broad snowshoes onto their feet; how to command the dogs. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Through the arches, Serra's lights glow dully, tens of thousands of oil lamps dwarfed by the vast darkness of the surrounding desert. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z She could see a wet spot on the ground where oil had spilled. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z If that was true, Bush was part of an administration that, far from protecting the oil industry, had pulled the rug out from under it. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Horses worked alongside engines alongside people alongside a harbor afloat with trash and oil. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z She smells like coconut oil and she feels strong, exactly like she was during initiation into Dauntless, when she hung over the chasm by her fingertips. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z “I have tired of stories of Onyeka. I noticed something when he came by yesterday. He should bathe more often, he smells like rotten oil beans.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Only to Lotus he gave secretly sugar and oil, because she was not accustomed to hardship. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z But as Filch lowered his quill, there was a great BANG! on the ceiling of the office, which made the oil lamp rattle. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z The vanity held a collection of hair relaxers, skin bright- eners, oils, and flattening irons. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z One tribe even tricked us by first trading goats to us for some empty cooking oil cans we had, then sneaking up on us to steal their goats back. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z She turned to him and glared, mustard oil thick on her frosty pink lips. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z I sat at the table, jolted awake by the coffee, petted Gretchen on top of her domed head, got a tail wag and, in as positive a tone as possible, said: “Used motor oil.” This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z When the Egyptians had assembled the next afternoon, bringing their offerings of oil and spice and salt and perfume, Toby—Ramose—gave a little talk on how to prepare a mummy. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Lilly was still using red- hot irons and an ounce of oil on every head. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Steady, steady, they draw up the oil that made this school rich. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Rahim Khan told me Baba had personally funded the entire project, paying for the engineers, electricians, plumbers, and laborers, not to mention the city officials whose “mustaches needed oiling.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z There are no strange smells, no lingering aroma of cooking oils. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “Like your fats and oils boss help you?” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z “The sea provides all the salt that Qarth requires, but I would gladly take as many olives as you cared to sell me. Olive oil as well.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He used thick oils and rubbed them into the wood with a soft cloth. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I was not used to the fragrance of the coconut oil she rubbed every other night into her scalp, or the delicate sound her bracelets made as she moved about the apartment. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z I could tell he was keen to get oil the phone. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Inside, the garage was two walls of floor-to-ceiling tools, oil cans, carpentry and electrician materials. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Then he quickly slung the pack over his shoulder and sliced through the oiled fabric of the zeppelin’s skin. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The tarry oil, which someone had bought from her village witch, fumed in black clouds. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z All year, the Capitol will show the winning district gifts of grain and oil and even delicacies like sugar while the rest of us battle starvation. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Felicia dropped a rag into the skillet and watched it go limp with oil. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z "Gerta," she says as we dip bread into a dish of olive oil, "I have something for you." What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “For the last time for eight months we really had as much as we could eat. Anchovies in oil, baked beans, and jugged hare made a glorious mixture.” Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z A small oil lantern sat on the kitchen table, lighting up both the kitchen and the living room. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z She moved away from him, crouching to refill the oil lamp. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z The heat rising from the oil burner chimneys across the highway distorted and magnified it. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z But when the price dropped, the frantic search for oil in the Permian Basin, and all of Texas, quickly became much less attractive. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “Not after you lost all that oil,” Moon Girl said. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z “Exactly so. Cut the burnt bits away, wipe off the fat, put them in the big Tuscan bowl and give them a good dousing in olive oil and then...” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Its dusty walls were illuminated by a small, flickering oil lamp, and several sacks of what appeared to be flour were pushed together in one corner in a makeshift bed. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z With its oiled wood panels on the walls, it reminds me of the chamber at Elsinore where the king received his visitors. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “Some folks call oil country ugly, but I say it’s got its own kind of pretty,” she’d said. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z We high-fived each other as we approached the village market, and our stomachs growled as the smell of palm oil wafted from cooking huts. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Instead of the kitchen soap I usually used, I helped myself to Hattie’s store of bath oils and fragrant soaps. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Beside the door swung an ornate oil lamp on a heavy chain, with a globe of leaded red glass. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Outside the wind was gusting, making the flames shiver in the oil lamps that lit the yard. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z It was darker now, opaque, streaked with oil and gasoline, polluted with debris, food, garbage, clothing, pieces of homes. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Underneath their painted leather vests, their withered dugs swayed back and forth, shiny with oil and sweat. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Grandma Rose has been chasing me with her bottle of coconut oil all week, but I've been busy studying for exams. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “We’ll change the oil, grease them, fill them up, then take them around in front and load up the junk they’ve left.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z His skin always looks like he rubs oil into it, but today it looks especially greasy. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, I felt like the Tin Man, who’d been left out in the rain to rust, in need of some serious oil for his joints. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z Mr. Freeman: “Why not spend that time on art: painting, sculpting, charcoal, pastel, oils? Are words or numbers more important than images? Who decided this? Does algebra move you to tears?” Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z The oil took the fire at once, the brush and dried grass a heartbeat later. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Bowls of popcorn drizzled with olive oil and pepper. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z But the mouse tail, covered as it was in oil, was slick and difficult to hold on to and Mig, in reaching for the knife, loosened her grip, and Despereaux fell to the floor. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z I dip more bread into the oil and pick up my fork as if I plan to eat paella. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z Wood was piled under it, and high all about it, and all was drenched with oil, even the garments of Faramir and the coverlets; but as yet no fire had been set to the fuel. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z He attacked it with his aunt Margie’s hot iron, hobbled it in a silk stocking every night, and slathered it with so much olive oil that flies trailed him to school. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z The half-dozen oil lamps around the room sputtered back into life, filling the room with natural light. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z All I know is that somebody needs these large pieces of metal that have something to do with pumping oil as soon as possible when they call him. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z Maybe the jars were filled with precious oils back then. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z The lenses immediately grew fogged with hair oil. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Echoes persisted of the 1986 crash, when the area had become a scavenger hunt for repossessed Lear jets, Mercedeses, mobile homes, oil rigs, ranches, and two-bedroom houses with walls so thin they seemed translucent. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The living room smelled of bleached palm oil that came from the kitchen and Baby was lying on a mat, looking through the pages of Eze Goes to School. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The only light came from a burning wick in a tiny bowl of cooking oil. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Our potato tikkis have browned beautifully on both sides, sizzling with the aroma of cilantro and olive oil. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z He does this while making pancakes, changing the oil in my mom’s car, or reading the morning paper. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z In a way, the black muck of the oil was no worse than the blackness above. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z The gray seal population off Cape Cod had shrunk because they had been hunted for their meat, oil, and skins. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z Out in the corridor, Flatnose was just boasting of the way he had poisoned a farmer’s stocks of olive oil. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Inside Cliff’s house, the electric-blue and white walls were darkened with smudges of oil and dirt. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Soon every man who could find a shovel was outside digging frenziedly for oil. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Hulls lay like chunks of cleavered fish: a conning tower here, a crew quarters there, the prow of an oil tanker pointing straight up to the sky. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z While Kunti revealed her secret to Kama on the riverbank, courting couples rubbed suntan oil on each other. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z It still needs oil, and it’s nowhere as good as my sickles back home, but it’s better than anything else, and I’m glad for it. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z “I fell through a duct and into an oil pocket. Couldn’t get out. The mask couldn’t breathe, anyway. It was full of oil. It was done for.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z In the cool damp, he picked up at once the unnatural smells of metal, coal smoke and oil. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Of course I treated it well in matters of oil changes and greasing, and I did not drive it to its limit or force it to do acrobatics required of sports cars. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The oil and grime had been washed from his legs to reveal an area below his thigh where pieces of shrapnel were embedded in the flesh. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Thick white smoke from the bleaching palm oil filled the kitchen, and in the stuffy mix of the fumes and heat and flies, I felt faint. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z You can wash oil off your face and fold paper towels into triangles. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z When Reynolds was gone, he gave Nailer an oiling can and spray applicator that Nailer strapped to his back, and then Knot put Nailer to work lubricating the gearing systems that extended the hydrofoils. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Noon light followed him like lava into a stone room where somebody cooked in oil. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Trying not to think of the bobbing boulders, he lit his oil lamp from a torch by the dock. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z They set the price of oil, and that felt funny as hell. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “Have you been at the machine oil again?” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Heaven knew what kind of infection you could get from a whip kept limber with oil and blood. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Ranofer smeared oil into the mold, keeping his frowning gaze directly on his work. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z Gray concrete floors stained with oil and grease, old junk cars and car parts everywhere. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z The dried egg yolk, fried in red palm oil, looked soggy and unnervingly bright-colored on the plate. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z There were women everywhere, some taking orders over the phone, others mixing oils or straining tinctures. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Piper had learned more about olive oil than she ever wanted to know, but no giants attacked them. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Perched on the pole, she oiled her feathers, which had become dry at the high altitudes. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z I’d oiled it earlier, and it slid open without a sound. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Mollie had been ten years old when the oil was first discovered, had witnessed, firsthand, the ensuing frenzy. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z At night there was the equally eerie sight of the gas flares, huge fissures of fire coming from the oil rigs where natural gas, an unwanted burden back then, was being burned off. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe it’ll be empty and I can sit there for a few minutes in peace, surrounded by the comforting smell of oil paints. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z The entire city, said Van Kirk, looked like “a pot of boiling black oil.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z He didn't know what the yellow soft thing they smeared on the toast was, because in Calormen you nearly always get oil instead of butter. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z And when the children were old enough to ride the wheels, they began to generate the sraf as well, and the sraf came back with the oil and stayed with them. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Ignatius lumbered over to the picket fence, abandoning the hopeless cause espoused by the wagon, and viewed the oil paintings and pastels and watercolors strung there. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z A translator explained he was part owner of the hotel as well as a local oligarch who controlled Siberian gas and oil fields. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z The floor of the chopper smelled of oil. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “A tincture of bayberry juice and oil of roses may relieve the pain, so that the sensation of Christ’s sweetness becomes even greater,” I say. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z He watched Sam Gardiner bring out a can of coal oil for another customer and guard against the possibility of the oil’s splashing out by fixing a lump of gumdrop candy over the spout. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z Corn oil can be used as a cooking or salad oil. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z I tell myself I need to thank him, when I’m not busy drooling into the windows and hyperventilating over the oil paintings and watercolors and canvases as big as my garage door. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z “Who knows? Our job is just to keep it from breaking down. If a part breaks, we got to put on a new one. If a part freezes up, we got to oil it.” The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I had to get away from that voice that sounded like creaking floors and smelled like used oil. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Near collision with an oil tanker which didn’t stop. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z I saw her use vials of oil she had not used before, and I saw that some of the roots she used were fresh with wet earth. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “You tell Pima there’s oil. You tell her there’s a secret stash. If you don’t, I’ll haunt you like Jackson Boy and come back and gut you while you’re sleeping.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z “People shouldn’t place all their hopes on these rubs and things. Maybe if they read about King Solomon in the Bible instead of using that oil with his name, they’d be better off.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z I’m a gun at your head, When I pass the oil drum. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “We stopped at a red light. I’m oiling my catcher’s mitt to avoid looking into our fathers’ eyes, their smiles. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z A body was forming out of silver and gold, with oil for blood and raw diamonds for a heart. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z There were traces of engine oil under his nails. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z "Well, don't bother copying that one. Twenty-three barrels of pickled cod, eighteen jars of fish oil, a cask of salt ..." "An inventory," Sam said, "or perhaps a bill of sale." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The only sound is the occasional pop of the oil lamps flickering against the black brick. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z That’s more people than work in coal, oil, and natural gas combined. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Before I knew it, November had rolled around, and that first Saturday, Doc set me and Jay to work making simple oils for him to sell in his shop. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z “I didn’t know honey was a preservative,” I said, starting to like the feel of it under my fingers, how they glided as if oiled. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The vendor spooned blobs of batter into the pot of oil, where they hissed and bubbled with a satisfying roar. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z “The only one I know of is the one in the garage that his dad uses to change oil in the Buick. What does he want it for?” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z He was working in the oil fields of Canada, up on the tree line where the tundra started and the forests ended. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z It was more than holding the oil field mess at bay; the more she cleaned, the less of Henry was in the house. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Raindrops stood out on his oiled skin like studs. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z With one shoe on and one shoe off, his clothes in rags, and his body streaked with oil, Alex knew he must look a strange sight. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z “I was gonna bring it in last night, but then I thought ‘one last coat of oil, rub it, and let dry.’ The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z During his watch the Halfhand had made a half-dozen torches, soaking bundles of dry moss with the oil he carried in his saddlebag. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Brighten up stainless steel sinks with baby oil. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Anger flared like an oil spill inside my veins. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z “We piled them up like they were logs, over two hundred, arms and legs sticking out. And we piled brush on top and poured coal oil on.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Grandma started bopping her head as she finished pouring the oil, making her turquoise beaded earrings jiggle. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z Immediately, Nokomis took her aside and brought her to the corner of the house near the window of oiled paper. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z Below the writing there were painted bottles of mixed-fruit jam and hot-lime pickle in edible oil, with labels that said, in elaborate writing, Paradise Pickles & Preserves. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He looked as if he could use an oiling himself—he moved quite creakily, and with a pronounced stoop, so that he truly seemed as old as he appeared in his disguise. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z “What I like to do is use oil on my fingers, instead of water,” Dad said. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z They were good boots, as befit one of Lord Tywin's men; heavy leather, oiled and supple, much finer than what Bronn was wearing. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z None of the built-in-a-hurry houses in the oil field camps had trees or anything like a proper yard. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z We are paying too dear for salt beef and pickled fish, and the quality of the olive oil we're getting has been frightful. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z It glistened under the lights and smelled like oranges, as if he’d just smoothed it out with oil. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z All around us were portraits of famous old peculiars, not framed but drawn directly onto the walls in oil and charcoal and grease pencil. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Easing the door closed again, she crouched with him behind an array of papery poppies as they watched Erastis enter the Library, an oil lantern dangling from his hand. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z He took out the vial of oil and lubricated the latch and hinges. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z “She’ll oversee everything in the east, the factories and our new oil interests. She has always had an excellent eye for business.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “And anything else illegal you know about. Like, if they’re dumping garbage or oil, too. You need to write it all down.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z The fat man stroked one of the prongs of his oiled yellow beard, a gesture Tyrion found remarkably obscene. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z From the height of the tanker’s deck, Bright Sands Beach stretched into the distance, a tarred expanse of sand and puddled seawater, littered with the savaged bodies of other oil tankers and freighters. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Then I pull out the oil pastels and the sketchbook. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z My pulse racing, I mix the flour and salt and oil and water to make the dough, kneading it with my hands like bread. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z She groped for them, and her anxious fingers came away with a film of oil. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Cooks dropped fish heads into woks of hissing oil, and urchins threaded their way underfoot searching for unguarded valuables. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Customers could find food staples, a good variety of colored thread, mash for hogs, corn for chickens, coal oil for lamps, light bulbs for the wealthy, shoestrings, hair dressing, balloons, and flower seeds. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Henry was squatting elbow to elbow with a couple of oil hands at a new drilling site when a Diamond T company truck barreled into the clearing. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z The helm was an enormous thing like an oil drum, padded inside with two thicknesses of leather and three inthes of straw. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Our playmates’ families exchanged their unwanted food for sugar, coal oil, spices, potted meat, Vienna sausage, peanut butter, soda crackers, toilet soap and even laundry soap. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z At dinner his fingernails are still rimmed in black oil. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z They’d had fried potatoes, too, in the days before the cooking oil ran out. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Everywhere smelt of suntan oil, hamburgers, and burnt sugar. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z It didn’t matter how many hours he spent with the hood up and his hands scarred up and blackened with oil. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z To the right of our house, a few yards away, stood three large empty oil barrels that served as garbage cans for the residents. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z I must admit they’re doing their best to keep me in condition: they’re plying me with dextrose, cod-liver oil, brewer’s yeast and calcium. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z The two groups, however, moved around each other like oil and water. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z First, I checked the oil in the mower. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z He had a faint, dry smell of herbs, an echo of the pothead smell that always lingered in the dusty corridors of Durbinstall: patchouli oil, clove cigarettes, incense. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “Was that Effie again? Never trust an ugly woman. She’s got a grudge against the world,” said Grandma, who was no oil painting herself. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z This time when he looked at me, he chose another candle from the shelf behind him and anointed it with oil. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Certainly a station wagon whose right back door flies open when you take left turns too quick, gets honked at every time it inches up a hill, and leaks black oil all over the street. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z I sliced onions, and Bailey opened two or even three cans of sardines and allowed their juice of oil and fishing boats to ooze down and around the sides. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The warmth of the water instantly soothes my skin, while the oils start to work their scented magic. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Better yet, the flat roof of the next garden's oil tank was just a foot below me, and screened by coal-blue conifers. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z But they couldn’t drop oil or salt, things that would have given the food some taste, so the food had almost no flavor at all. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z “You ladies need a critic with some taste and decency. Good heavens! Which one of you did this camellia? Speak up. The water in this bowl looks like motor oil.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Dad dropped the cone into an oil drum full of rubbish and walked off. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z He smells like the Boys and Girls Club—rubber balls, oiled wood, a whiff of mildew, and the tangy sweat of playing. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z For one lively half century Pennsylvania had a virtual monopoly on one of the most valuable products in the world, oil, and an overwhelmingly dominant role in the production of a second, coal. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z "Nobody did. Wherever she was, whether outside feeding the ducks or inside looking out of the window, she was always motionless, just a figure painted in oils. It was all very odd," my grandmother said. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z And she stuck her hand into the oil and pulled him out by his tail. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z He never lighted the oil lamp by his bed unless he wanted to read. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z “Get me a monkey suit and I’ll help you with the oil.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Each kabob looked like a soft brown log, shiny with oil and fat, dimpled where Dad had pinched it to seal it onto the skewer. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z At last, they stopped for a rest and ate the food Dustfinger had brought from Basta’s larder: some red spicy sausage, a piece of cheese, bread, olive oil. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Shae lit the murky oil lamp on the wobbly bedside table and said, “There’s no heater, either. We may as well get to know one another.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z The priest looked up, flung oil, and made the sign of the cross as our train rolled away. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Then she dips the first piece of meat into the breadcrumbs and drops it, spattering, into the oil. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z “For Murder Capital U.S.A., it isn’t much—just a depressed oil town in an arid stretch of West Texas,” wrote Newsweek. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z As smoke from the oil fields melted into the sky, Hale conferred with Pike. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z It collects and gets hard in their little throats so you have to ease it with any class of an oil. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Til get you a whetstone and oil for it if you make it through this.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z It was a cold, lonely night, and we huddled around our oil stove while Mama and Woody and Chizu began to talk about the day. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z I would know the smell of it—oil soap and fireplace wood. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z When the bell rang, a nasal buzzing sound, a gangly boy with skin problems and hair black as an oil slick leaned across the aisle to talk to me. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z A jar of oil exploded against the second floor and John and Gloria’s bedroom caught. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z I’ve already put oil on all the bolts to loosen them. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z If Comrade Pillai was outside his house oiling himself when Estha walked past, he made it a point to greet him. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Here and there in the vacant lots were metal cylinders, like oil drums, that had been fixed in the ground and were silently venting smoke. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z The croquettes are fried in crackling oil and arranged with a red onion salad on plates. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z She rubbed her with oil, scraped her with a strigil, scrubbed her hands and feet with pumice, and washed her hair, pouring jug after jug of water over her. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z But this only if there were any money left after the bean oil and the soybean sauce had been bought. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Many were Dothraki horselords, big men with red- brown skin, their drooping mustachios bound in metal rings, their black hair oiled and braided and hung with bells. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z "I guess I had other things oil my mind." The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z She put the oil on the key and waited till it slowly spread inside the bolt. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z We later discovered that plastic cooking oil caps worked much better as wheels, enabling the trucks to last much longer. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z They stood looking at the building rising above us, the liquid dark of the oil simmering dully in the stray flecks of light that struck their pails, bent forward, their shoulders bowed. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z In one segment, oil derricks stood below a flooded landscape, water engulfing a city. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z He wore the same deerskin shawls and leggings and like his fellows had covered his face with bug-repelling oil and reddish-purple dye. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z But because oil paint is expensive, he continues to use other media: he draws with charcoal and a carpenters pencil. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Two servants went ahead to light their way, carrying ornate oil lanterns with panes of pale blue glass, while a dozen strong men hoisted the poles to their shoulders. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “Ron and Tonks should have been back first, but they missed their Portkey, it came back without them,” she said, pointing at a rusty oil can lying on the ground nearby. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z In the coming months, he would declare an oil embargo, freeze Japanese assets in America, and finally declare a total trade embargo. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z He oiled himself with warm, peppered coconut oil, kneading his old, loose flesh that stretched willingly off his bones like chewing gum. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “A likely excuse! You’ve been at the machine oil again. Don’t lie to me! I checked the level yesterday.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z And she remarked to old Grandma, dozing beside her stove with the dial turned all the way to HIGH, and to Tayo who was oiling his hunting boots: “I tell them, ‘It isn’t easy. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The oil drum she had seen when the skua flew over marked the beginning of civilization and the end of the wilderness. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The driveway was marred by nothing, not even a single drop of oil. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z “Dirty Mexicans. I heard a man at the oil festival say there were heaps of dirty Mexicans in San Antonio.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z He gestured toward the piece of cloth he had used to oil the paddle. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “Someone does. I won’t be flying it again, will I? Not after tomorrow. It’s the only thing I can do, check the oil, clean the bugs.” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z All that hard work, solving the clues, burning midnight oil, endangering the lives of his friends, it had all come to nothing. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z She wanted him to put some coconut oil on his face because she thought his skin looked ashy. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z “Oh, any kind. And get some hair oil, Reba. Posner’s, and some . . . Oh, never mind. Just that. Mama? Have you seen my . . . Oh, my God. No wonder. No wonder.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z She wore a simple white dress, but when she moved, the fabric shimmered with colors like oil on water. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z He had not been able to get off all the oil, for the lines of his hands were still black. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z The shingles are slick with oil and gunk. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z But oil geologists didn’t write academic papers; they just found oil. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The wooden clock with its loud tick-tick-tick and the oil painting of the village Gramps was from. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z It wasn’t very good quality; it smelled faintly of vegetable oil. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Some sort of production of palm oil had taken place here; there were the remains of palm nut seeds everywhere. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z The white pavement of Route 1 shimmered in the heat and in the fumes from gas and oil. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z She brought out her old wooden board and cleaver, then chopped the ginger and scallions, and poured soy sauce and sesame oil into a shallow dish. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Whenever we first opened its door at the top of the creaky narrow stairs we smelled the fresh veneers of pine oil and bleach and lemon balm. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Bronn had carried him the rest of the way, and the humiliation poured oil on the flames of his anger. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z It tastes like dirt and oil and burns his tongue. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Wishing Rekh the goldsmith would suddenly send him on an errand to the other side of Thebes, Ranofer turned his back on the man and reached for the oil jar. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z "Yum. This is good stuff. Another guy was convinced you were an oil magnate's wife from Dubai." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Maybe he’d been too busy gloating over the twins’ delight at the neat little oil camp house with its running hot water, electric lights, and fancy appliances. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Immediately below this manifesto squats the stove, fabricated from a rusty oil drum. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z To support this credo, he submitted a goodly number of original drawings and oil paintings. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z The next morning I found Mother mixing oils in the kitchen. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z And so, the small mouse who had been dipped m oil, covered in flour, and relieved of his tail slipped out of the pantry and past the weeping ladies. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z 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 I didn’t even mention the forty-two thousand old oil paintings of stuffy dead guys with fur collars no one cared about. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z Something sputtered as it dropped in hot oil. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z There was no one to see to it that their clothes were clean, heads were shaved around the edges, skin was oiled and not ashy. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z Papá oiled it and set up his barbershop in the shed, using an unstable wooden box as a chair. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z The amount varies depending on the prices of oil but in recent years has usually amounted to a few thousand dollars. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z In 1929, even before the stock market crash, a national newspaper story reported, “In five years, if the oil map continues to shift, the tribe may have to go back to work.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z I dropped off the oil tank, slipped on a golf ball, got up, dashed over the lawn, fell over an invisible croquet hoop, got up, then misjudged my jump onto the fence beam. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Of all the places that got caught up in the frenzy of the oil boom in those days, Midland may well have been the most incredible. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z She told them how Pastor Tom was the best thing that ever happened to this oil field. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z From inside the kitchen they heard James’s grandmother shout something over the oil and fan. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z The oil production industry in West Texas had collapsed. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z It began to pop and crackle as the flames got to the natural oils in the branches. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z "As it warms, the substance will flow more easily, like lamp oil." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z On May 8th, I went to the Justice Building, signed up for my tesserae, and pulled home my first batch of grain and oil in Prim's toy wagon. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z “We were told to lie down oil the sand, turn our faces away from the blast, and bury our heads in our arms,” remembered Edward Teller, who was on Compana Hill. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Like this one that I am dotting up with oil crayons, only a real ancient one. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z When it was available, they also carried M-16 maintenance gear—rods and steel brushes and swabs and tubes of LSA oil — all of which weighed about a pound. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The light from the burning oil was inconstant, but they had no trouble making out the widening puddle of blood. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z When a man makes his fortune in oil or government contracts, in chemicals or wholesale groceries, his first act is to buy a ranch, the largest he can afford, and to run some cattle. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z We had moved beyond Magic Markers and watercolors and were using oil paints on real canvas. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z He was pouring oil around the frame of the window. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z From inside the kitchen they heard James’s grandmother shout something over the oil and fan. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Archimedes sighed heavily, and remarked in prophetic tones, “Yon had better get it oil your chest.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z But the electricity had been cut off, and the oil lamp that had once lit the dark between our beds had already been packed away. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z They didn’t get their cooking oil delivered either, other things as well. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z I knew why the priest put glistening oil on my grandmother’s forehead the night she died. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I notice an old oil lamp sitting on the kitchen counter, and I try to play with it to get it to turn on, but no use. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z Dad and David are busy changing the oil in Mom’s car. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z 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 But Mama did not come into my room with the bag that held combs and hair oils and ask me to come downstairs. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z He dropped the meat into the oil, added a few more sticks to his fire to get a raging boil, then threw in a handful of sliced potatoes. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z Word spread that it was oil, and Chief White Halfoat was kicked off the base. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z In his home he hung Nazi flags in prominent locations and displayed airplane models of Messerschmitts and Junkers as well as an oil painting of Adolf Hitler and other memorabilia from the Third Reich. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z She redoubled her attentions, rubbing Clara’s stomach with sweet almond oil to keep her from getting stretch marks, and her breasts with honey so her nippies would not split. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “Mademoiselle,” said one, in the dry and oft-repeated jest, “to see you depart from our circle is to see the sun cast oil' its planets and roam. What shall we, massy bodies, do, left bereft?” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Dede held up the dainty oil lamp, its pale rose chimney fluted like the petals of a flower. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Ifemelu examined the curiously long sausages and then began to open cupboards to look for some oil. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z With another clean, greased cloth he rubbed it all over, outside, until every bit of it was oiled and sleek. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z “Like falling into a pool of oil and already having a buyer set up. Shouldn’t your dad just take a cut and let this Pyce run with it?” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z On his watch, squeaky door hinges never got oiled. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z He was seeing far fewer people wading through the water, now green-grey and streaked everywhere with oil. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Everywhere, a soup of smells—the sticky sour odor of fresh blood, and also filthy clothes, sweat, oil, disinfectant, medical alcohol, and drifting above it all, the stink of gangrene. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The oil derricks were everywhere in East Texas. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z I walked past the hole and into the kitchen, which was filled with the scent of our mother’s oils—birch, eucalyptus, ravensara. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z He and Julie would be at school, and there was no reason to assume the oil would run out there. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z Bush had then moved to Midland, where he got into the independent oil business, and lived there for about ten years. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Every spy was equipped with a number of these larvae, which, by feeding them carefully regulated amounts of oil and honey, they could either keep in suspended animation or bring rapidly to adulthood. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The archway leading to the royal bedchamber was guarded by a pair of sandalwood lovers, shaped and smoothed and oiled. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z After his graduation from Yale he and his wife had moved to Odessa, where Bush worked as a salesman and clerk for an oil field supply company. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z But he said nothing when O-lan fried them in oil and when the laborers crunched them between their teeth and the children pulled them apart delicately and tasted them, afraid of their great eyes. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Mary was aware of the smell of roasting corn, and the warm smell of the mulefa themselves—part oil, part warm flesh, a sweet horselike smell. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z "So, where do you think Ishtar's money came from? Daddy an oil sheikh? Maybe an arms dealer? War's good business." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z And the ties all smelled like Dad, still—like cherry tobacco and cologne and a whiff of motor oil. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z On the oil stove in the kitchen Antonapoulos cooked all of their meals. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Johanna Mason is naked again and oiling her skin down for a wrestling lesson. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Of course, the oil field brought new people all the time. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Francie polished the brass bell plates in the three vestibules and cleaned each banister spoke with an oiled cloth. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Nothing else in town, not even the resurgence of the oil industry in another frenzied boom, could give the west side the same sort of psychological lift as a win over Permian. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He looked at me a moment longer, then inched backward out of the driveway, leaving me with the smell of truck oil. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Then it came out hoarsely, like machinery needing oil, “Yes, ma’am.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z The scent of oil lamps and old paper and leather circulates. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z But at this point, even the United States was over the shah because...wait for it...he increased the price of oil. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z The first time, he found nothing, but the second, he let himself sink lower, oil lapping up around his jaw. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z She rubbed Tres Rosas oil in my hair and helped me comb it. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z He watched them take turns running oiled swabs through the barrel. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The lightless elevator swayed back and forth as it ascended, turning the boy s stomach sour with nausea; a smell like burnt oil invaded his senses, making him feel worse. The Maze Runner 2009-10-21T00:00:00Z Although the trade wind was blowing, the smell of gas and oil lay heavy over the Schottegat Other empty tankers were there, high out of the water, awaiting orders to sail once they had cargoes. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Let me take a little oil, Mary said, just enough to put on the lacquer. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Underfoot, pools of murky water slick with oil. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z A tank truck driver was preparing a cotton defoliant by mixing diesel oil with pentachlorophenol. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The vigil light no longer contained oil but was an electric bulb. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z He used some machine oil to grease back his hair. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Uncle Carlos comes from the garage, wiping oil off his hands with one of Aunt Pam’s good towels. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z The flame seared the tip of the oiled cloth and sizzled toward the bottleneck. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z I feel the serum clinging to my skin like oil, but the darkness recedes. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Olanna poured some palm oil into the cooled mixture and stirred and stirred until her arms stiffened from fatigue. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Most of the records were dry and clinical—expenses, census reports, oil leases. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z It is in fact a landscape, done in oils, with the blue water, the purple underpainting, the craggy rocks and windswept raggedy trees and heavy impasto of the twenties and thirties. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Matty adjusted the wick on an oil lamp and lighted it. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z Hay was taken to the horses, and Kote topped off the oil in all the lamps. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z If the fire won’t start sprinkle it with a little paraffin oil. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z The ground crews, which had to replace twenty-four dirt- clogged aircraft engines in twenty-one days, resorted to spraying oil on the taxiways to keep the dust down. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z I checked the oil—it was all right. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Two ancient lamps burned fish oil, throwing dim shadows against the dark stone walls. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z There were pots and pans, spoons and hashi, cigarettes and lamp oil, tea and leather. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Someone'd got a letter from a North Sea oil rig, another from a canning factory in Alaska. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z There was speculation among my older brothers about whether he would be dosed with cod-liver oil. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z His movements, as he was later to describe those of an acquaintance, were activated with oiled precision. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z It contained a thin strong rope, a padded grappling hook, a vial of oil, some lockpicks and a dagger: Shadow’s usual burgling kit. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Chandra and I were not allowed oil to light our room at night. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z ‘As you wander around, carry this spoon with you without allowing the oil to spill.’ The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z To insure my speedy recovery, Grandma came after me with castor oil. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Reckon out how much oil you saved and put its value in pennies in the bank. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z This had been his first job as the top man on a rig, and he’d hit oil in the first week of drilling. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Today Ms. Jenna had just finished showing us how to make fresh hummus from scratch using olive oil and garlic and cans of chickpeas. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z To my surprise the stove came apart fairly easily—the oil I had put on the bolts last winter had done the trick. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z “We were shopping on Eighth Avenue and he stepped on a newspaper that somebody had put over some oil and slipped on it,” Moms said. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z He found a can of olive oil and some cans of milk. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z 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 “Plus he started his own oil business over in Vicksburg. So if it doesn’t work out, it’s not like you’ll be running into him every day in town.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z She pulled a small bottle of olive oil and bee pollen from her free pocket and rubbed my skin—her patented remedy. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z As Lawrence rose in professional esteem, his social circle came to encompass the banking and oil magnates who had become his financial patrons. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Gemstones glittered on every finger, and his man had oiled his forked yellow beard until it shone like real gold. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The lightless elevator swayed back and forth as it ascended, turning the bby’s stomach sour with nausea; a smell like burnt oil invaded his senses, making him feel worse. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z He used the mask’s clean interior to scrape at his eyes, clearing oil away. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z New government environmental regulations for oil drilling were having an even more profound effect on the Osage’s underground reservation. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Lightbulbs had a film of oil on them. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I told him yes anyway, I really wanted to make it, so we drove all the way to the Asian supermarket to get adzuki beans and sesame oil. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The long fortification was known as the Blue Line and was part of Hitler’s offensive as he tried to push through Crimea to take over the oil fields of the Caspian Sea. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Several nights later, I dipped a ball of crushed ice into a can of gasoline, let the oil coat the ice in a thick layer, and lit it. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z The knob of the handle was made of the skull of a stoat, oiled and polished like ivory, and Kay loved it. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z As silently as a floating feather, the servant combs the oil through Padma's hair, making it shimmer in the subtle light like onyx. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z She watched her uncle maneuver salad greens, olive oil, vinegar, and several ingredients unknown to her with the same precision and assurances he employed on a difficult osteotomy. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z He was making the sign of the cross on my feet with oil; the oil smelled like onions, and even his light touch hurt. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z The bird’s black plumage shone like coal oil in the torchlight. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He had a swatch of oiled leather in one hand. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z I sigh and slam my laptop shut just as the front door squeaks open and out comes Janae, wearing strappy sandals and newly shaven, oiled legs. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Then kids would go out in the streets and sell petrol to light oil lamps. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z The iron bar was thick and heavy, but well oiled. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He had a singer’s voice, a voice that had the same effect on my ears that Mama working Pears baby oil into my hair had on my scalp. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z He kicked in his excitement and the oil rippled around him. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z And third, some saucy tart once tried to impugn my virtue against an oil painting of him, and in the halls of memory, some things demand context. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Old Tallow was sitting by the fire, cleaning and oiling each part of her ancient, frail gun. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z He’d tested out markers and oil sticks and colored pencils and chalk and pens and pastels and watercolors. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Before I could ask Mama how she knew what that oil was for, she guessed my question. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z “There’s an oil tank under the ground that needs filling every so often.” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z One of the petroleum companies, Conoco, that was exploring for oil, agreed to build a big sanctuary for the chimps—a patch of forest with an electric fence around it. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z The instrument is alive in my hands; it trembles like a child who is too frightened to name her terror as she proceeds deeper into forest darkness, carrying a lantern of warm oil. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “But that’s not natural,” he said, sniffing the strange, strong smells of tar and oil. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I am counting my blessings tonight and thinking about all the ways love is a big deal, how it is the honey, lemon, and eucalyptus oil that Ollie Mae makes for a scratchy throat. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The scent of fish oil wafts through the train car. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Using his thumb, he drew the sign of the cross on my forehead with sacred oil and said a prayer for my soul. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z The oil paintings my parents made on their first date because Pa wanted to wow Ma with an experience more memorable than just dinner. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z Mam opens all the windows to air the house and let out the smell of the hair oil and the years of no air. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z His father turned off the oil lamp, for the day had arrived, and he looked stern and disciplinary, but Billy Buck didn’t look at Jody at all. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z He was a fine fellow, feathers shining like oil. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z At the microscopic level, the protein cubes were solid food particles suspended in thick vegetable oil. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z I saw the priest from town come, and he rubbed the holy oil at my feet and prayed. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Aunty Ifeoma boiled some yam slices, and we ate them dipped in palm oil that had chopped red peppers floating in it. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z They kept their diamonds and oil at a horrific cost. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I would make a dressing of oil and vinegar, and cook some fresh biscuits. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z They had just brought Kuwaiti oil to Japan, and were returning to Kuwait for more. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z A shelf along the wall contained a kerosene lantern, spare wicks, matches, and oil. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Some days they unloaded seventy-five casks; some days the sea was so rough that they had to cover the water with an oil slick before the boats could approach the Henry. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z After her supper, after the oil lamps had been lit, Kira examined it carefully. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Cuckoo stopped at this, her eyes narrow and bright as a snake’s eyes, and her voice smooth as oil flowing from a vessel. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z He was always brushed, bathed, oiled, and shod. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z When the cops came, he was still gripping the broken bottle in his hand, and watching his own blood flow between the fingers of his fist and drip on the Mexican’s oiled wood floor. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The corridors stank of oiled floors and cafeteria soup. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z It shifted like dirty oil moving through water, and the only thing I wanted to do at that moment was run screaming back to the house. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z The scent of partially combusted oil suffused the air. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “Just look at his loot. Who knows how many other innocent people he’s hoodwinked into buying that snake oil. I insist that he be put under arrest.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Dissolved in oil, as it usually is, DDT is definitely toxic. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Root stalked down the hallway, glaring back at the oil paintings. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Soon as he fixed the radiator and cleaned the oil and grime off the engine, we took the Jamisons for a quick ride and then left Cushie Springs. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z He wet a cloth in a basin of warm water to wipe the sweat and oil from his skin. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “That it must be oiled now and then or it will get brittle, and pieces will break off.” Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Rows of oil lamps made the room bright, and each of the men had his personal torch behind him, illuminating stacked and scattered papers that lay on the table. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z All around, sledgehammers rang against iron as swarms of men and women clambered over the ancient oil tanker, tearing it apart. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z “It marks a source—an oil source,” he lied. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z Back home, too big to carry, would be bags of grain, cans of oil. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z A low settee stood in front of the fireplace, and a mirror framed in mahogany hung above the mantel, flanked by oil lamps fastened to the walls. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z There were no oil- burning motorships on the high seas at that time. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z All Chinese food — a bowl of sweet, hot soybean milk, and two long, twisting oil sticks to dip in it; also two onion cakes. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z We had just met, hugged, and maybe even loved our mother, smelled the coconut oil in her big braids, and there my sisters were, wiggling like worms in a bait box. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z “We got some camo pants over by the motor oil.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z I recognized the formulas—the oils and tinctures were to fortify the liver and kidneys, and the clay was a foot soak to draw toxins. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z He wore a long hauberk of oiled black mail, and held his sword before him: her father's greatsword; fee, near as tall as he was. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Then I added oil if I needed it, filled it with gas, and headed off down the street to Arnold’s house. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z The dartboard hangs precariously on a wall in the study, between tall bookcases and ornately framed oil paintings. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The house was indeed Elizabethan, with wooden panels along the corridors, ornate chandeliers, and oil paintings of old bearded men in tunics and ruffs. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z “But why are you putting on baby oil?” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z As she watched Jason work, she admired how easily he did each task, whether it was fixing a door or oiling saddles. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z He swished the first mouthful and spat it out, trying to clear the oil and gunk from his mouth, and then drank, hard and fast, gulping. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Fire flickered within the oil lamp’s milk glass shade. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z He shooed the press out of the barn, slung a rope across the entrance, posted a guard, and retreated to his track cottage, sitting by an oil stove in a cramped room. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Even after her mother married Henry, sometimes Naomi slept next to her when he was away working in an oil field. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z It rolled open like the mechanism inside the lock had been oiled. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z The house had an oil furnace and a gas stove. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Sookie reached for Mr. Patterson’s drink, took a sip, and made a face like he had ingested a mouthful of motor oil. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z In one room he sees an oil portrait of a small girl he assumes is Maxine, sitting in the lap of a stunning, youthful Lydia, wearing a yellow sleeveless dress. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z He fixed the avocados with sweet oil and pickled vinegar and brought the salad in to Katie. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z If you will pardon my saying so, I believe you are too passionate to paint just in watercolors and never in oils indefinitely. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z But then I felt a small hand on my shoulder and smelled rose oil. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z She did all this in flickering light from a smoky oil lamp. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Sissy explained that she had bought a bit of gold paint powder, mixed it with a few drops of banana oil and had gilded each penny. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Then I treat her torn flesh with oil. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “Is it possible to see where the Biafran soldiers shot the Italian oil worker?” the redhead asked. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The short-term wins for the United States and United Kingdom included regaining limited access to Iran's oil by having a stake in a holding company called Iranian Oil Participants, or IOP. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Someone had lit an oil lamp on the table. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z On the nightstand is a glass for her false teeth and blood pressure pills, cod-liver oil, and rosemary leaves. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z A friend helps Lourdes get work cleaning oil refinery offices and houses by day and ringing up gasoline and cigarette sales at a gas station at night. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z A dark bluish slick surrounded the boat, and the men in the Coast Guard inflatable were laying out yellow floating bumpers, to keep the oil and grease from spreading. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z The mother and daughters move like oil through the clear dark fluid of this crowd, mingling and then coming back to itself. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Levi’s car was well made; the only adjustment it required between heats was “a drop of oil on each wheel bearing.” Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z She let her mother relax her hair and oil up her skin with cocoa butter. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z He turned down the flame in the paraffin oil lamp on the table and said it was time for Malachy and me to be in bed. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z I looked lovingly at Raji’s strong shoulders and brown skin and his foolish wayward hair, which he had tried to slick down with coconut oil. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z I took it and was even more careful on the rutted clay lest the big Buick lose its oil pan. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z In the open kitchen of the Amateurs a girl was cooking potato-chips in oil. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z Then Kat gave Aunt Gloria the bath oil, saying it was a present from both her and me, and when Aunt Gloria looked at the label, her lips went up. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z The ones in communes got four ounces of fat and one cup of oil a week, they said, and had to work from 4 A.M. to 9 P.M. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The scent of the oils and the roots stuck to my hands, so I smelled like the earth. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z It only served to reason that the olive oil Tessie drizzled over everything had some mysterious power to stop the body’s clock, while the mind, impervious to cooking oils, kept going. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z She was friendly but practical, and she had lots of cheap things to suggest, like baths with Epsom salts and even feeding the chicken some olive oil. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z But after the oil crash and the onset of the energy crisis, large cities had been flooded with refugees from surrounding suburban and rural areas, resulting in a massive urban housing shortage. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z One day I was in art class, and we were working with oil paints. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Reed finished wiping down the Executioner and began applying drops of oil to its moving parts, working the action a few times. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z The moment she tosses cumin seeds into the hot oil, I know this club is where I’m supposed to be. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z They had taken their money, their statuary and their gloomy oil paintings and had come to America and settled in Brooklyn. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z With the wheels and the oil, it stays among us. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z It worked by making impressions on the paper, which had been blackened by an oil lamp, using a stylus that vibrated when someone sang or spoke into a large barrel-shaped horn. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Without grain in the silo, jars of olive oil in the cellar, cheese in the pantry and sausages hanging from the rafters, they would starve in bad years. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Just before we lay down to sleep, Mrs. Lai gave Sass some mustard oil and camphor to rub on Hari’s chest. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z Frightful shook out her feathers and preened and oiled them. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Luxa had at some point retrieved the oil lamp from the boat. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z He set the bottle on the bench and he took a screwdriver and punched a hole in one of the cans of oil and then punched a smaller one to help it drain. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Hazel sank into her mother’s arms, into the darkness, as oil filled her lungs and the island collapsed into the bay. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Then she kicked the oil drum to free it from the ice, rolled it close to him, and erected her tent against it. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z And then she reached over and kissed him, leaving her chicken oil and lipstick on his cheek. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z I moved to the mirror, guarding the flame, and lit the oil lamps that were set into the wall. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Others hunted for hidden petrol and ship oil pockets, bucketing out the valuable fluid. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z I wanted to go over and touch Papa- Nnukwu, touch the white tufts of hair that Amaka oiled, smooth the wrinkled skin of his chest. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z The temperature in the apartment was about fifty degrees, which was where he’d set the oil burner thermostat, but Bri made things feel warm and sunny again. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z Wood smoke and oil fumes, bodies and cigarettes, bangers and beans, sweet and sour manure. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z L.V. was a trucker, but with the oil bust, jobs had become increasingly dif-ficult to find and he barely worked at all. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Removing the Western clothing in which the body had been on display, Sheik Hassoun washed the body with special holy oil. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Tom pulled ditched cars free with his freshly painted two-ton wrecker; Dave sold gasoline, batteries, and motor oil and advised his customers to go home and stay home. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Cases of motor oil were stacked in front of the counter; the cans had a dull oil film on them. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z A third lifts the nightgown, pours baby oil onto her mound of stomach, rubs downward. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Inside the manor house there was always a faint smell from the oil lamps that were lit every evening—for there was no electricity. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z “A good one. For getting out of the oil.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z However, the oil lamps gave a pleasant light. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z There wasn’t a drop of oil leaking, despite the shattered hull. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z In exchange, the secretary allowed the barons to tap the navy’s invaluable strategic oil reserves. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z A vast amount, of course, is contributed by Negroes, but there are rumors to the effect that people like Birchites and certain Texas oil millionaires look with favor on the movement. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z I cut the onions into perfect circles, toss them in some flour, and throw them in a pan with a little bit of oil that I saved from the last time I fried chicken. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z We killed many cows for their oil, using spears, but the teeth were not large. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z “You mean like add some oil, turn the key, and off she goes?” The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z To obtain that oil, prospectors had to pay the Osage for leases and royalties. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “He’s not on fire. He’s burning oil,” Maddie said, because she knows these things. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z He was alone in the room, seated at a heavy wooden table, an oil lamp beside him as he wrote. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Finally, she went to work, her hair a very short, overly combed and overly oiled Afro. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z I figured I could get a job at a filling station somewhere, putting gas and oil in people's cars. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z Yes, my sin—my greater sin...and even my greatest sin is that I nationalized Iran’s oil industry and discarded the system of political and economic exploitation by the world’s greatest empire. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z She scoured the enameled wash basin and poured a bottle of sweet oil in it and set it on the back of the stove. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z A giant oil spill off Santa Barbara blackened California’s coastline. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Most of them wore oil field gear and had probably been tipped off by rig workers who’d gone back to the yard. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z “Better look at the oil, too,” said Stuart. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z Tiny flames went darting up the wood like swift red mice, skating over the oil and leaping from bark to branch to leaf. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The fresh and dried fish; the fat, oil, or meat from beaver, beluga, caribou, moose, oogruk, polar bear, and walrus; cranberries, salmonberries and wild rhubarb all had so far escaped contamination. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z If she was mixing oils and couldn’t remember whether she’d added frankincense. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z My father would marry two or three more wives, who would spatter cooking oil on our bare toes and lie that we were crying for naughtiness. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z And behind the film of frost etching the glass I saw two brashly painted plaster images of Mary and Jesus surrounded by dream books, love powders, God-Is-Love signs, money-drawing oil and plastic dice. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z “His presence,” Myrta said, “was like oil on troubled waters, as mother often said to him. He was so kind, so gentle and thoughtful that we forgot our cares and worries.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z I tried to back away from the edge of the pit, but it was like swimming through oil. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z People arrive at the church with smaller bundles of beans, oil, rice, and lentils. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z In Baba’s view, Israel was an island of “real men” in a sea of Arabs too busy getting fat off their oil to care for their own. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Gangly, bespectacled, hair black as an oil slick and always perfectly combed forward, Tucker was a busboy, waiter, and cashier here at Finnegan’s, not to mention the smartest person I’d ever met. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z And then the knife edge would be covered with skin oil and blood cells, and would be ruined. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z They had some sort of oiled, opaque linen stretched over them. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z For clothing they wear only a breechcloth, like an apron, and their faces and shoulders are oiled with something that gives their skin a deep reddish color. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z We stay there for a minute, breathing in her familiar smells of baby powder and coconut hair oil. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I requested that the prison service supply me with sixteen 44-gallon oil drums that I had them slice in half. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Carlson found a little cleaning rod in the bag and a can of oil. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Dad reached into his pocket and withdrew a vial of consecrated oil, which he placed in my palm. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Mary remembered the oil she’d found on her fingers when she had examined the first seedpod. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Antain’s mother stood in the doorway of the workshop late one morning, her nostrils wrinkling from the sawdust and the sharp smell of Zirin hip oil, which gave the wood its particular sheen. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z We were a long way from Dr. Phil’s office with its amateur oils and Medicaid cases. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z His time in the oil room had hurt him. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z How she could ward off the malocchio, the evil eye, with a prayer and the dip of her pinkie into a bowl of water sprinkled with a few drops of olive oil. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Doc woke up as Jay and Mama washed his wounds, then covered them with a healing oil we’d made. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z The nurse taught her to oil her skin as well, and to buff her fingernails with a piece of leather. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z That was a kind of punishment favored by mobs and self-appointed judges—coal oil in the culprit’s well. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z My stomach hurt as if my mother had dosed me with castor oil. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z He also drank a cup of shark liver oil each day from the big drum in the shack where many of the fishermen kept their gear. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Much of the oil had spilled, but there was still some left. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z The air smelled of salt and frying fish, of hot tar and honey, of incense and oil and sperm. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z In half a minute it could be turned out and the mold oiled for the next pouring. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z Sailors dumped oil on him and he slipped back into the water. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I stepped into Rocinante to bring out my poor mite of garbage for the oil drum, two empty cans; I had eaten from one and Charley from the other. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z A small abandoned bonfire in an oil drum makes an alley glow. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z According to the equations of quantum mechanics, more power than is stored in all the coal mines, oil fields, and nuclear weapons in the world is sitting in the space inside your toaster. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z She could have called you names and then I’d have started boiling inside like the oil in her frying pan. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z So they saw that they had to plant more seedpod trees for the sake of the oil, but the pods were so hard that they seldom germinated. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z More persistent was the sharp smell of the circulating oil that cooled the big magnet and its electrical transformers. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z As she put it, “someone had to stay behind and oil the machinery at Riverbank.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z He also had his hair combed and rubbed with fine oil. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z Harry did not get dosed with the stinking oil. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Schulz had been in trouble with the Gestapo and, as a result, lost his previous job as an oil expert. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z Many people were complaining of robberies—basic necessities like sadza and cooking oil were being stolen. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z I could hardly breathe for the smell of incense and the mustard oil burning in the hundreds of little lamps. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z Farther down the beach, the old-world wrecks still lay black on the sand like mangled bodies, still leaking oil and chemicals, still swarming with workers. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z She had had the pain; it had been like being boiled alive in scalding oil and not being able to die to get free of it. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Like Farmer, he had an expressive face that revealed his enthusiasm and determination, and as second in command at PIH, his role was to keep the wheels of that machine well oiled. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z But with Harding in the White House, a historian noted, “the oil men licked their chops.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The screen shimmered as though coated in a pearly oil. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z In the distance we saw the outline of a temple, not too distant however, with a yellow oil flare burning from the top. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z She smelled strongly of fried fish and sesame oil and garlic. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The shower alone has a panel with more than a hundred options you can choose regulating water temperature, pressure, soaps, shampoos, scents, oils, and massaging sponges. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z In a cozy room dimly lit by oil lamps, Miss Wren sat in a rocking chair holding Miss Peregrine in her lap. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z “Your Highness,” he would say, “it breathes. Stop my vitals — I fear if you make it any more lifelike, it will flit oil' the page.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z It didn’t creak because I had earlier oiled the hinges. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The oil in them smells good, like the tractor and the lawnmower. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z The house-maidens led them to the bath place where they bathed them in silver bathtubs and rubbed them with sweet-smelling oil. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z If her body swayed forward it meant yes, the oil would help her headache. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z And by slightly, I mean there are several oil paintings of single coffee beans hanging on the wall. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z He’s part of it all now, headlines and oil paintings and pages in the Library of Congress, etched right alongside. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z The bread was rather hard so they dipped it in the oil, ate in silence sitting side by side on the grass, and then went on. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Frankie stood with his back to the oil lamp, eclipsing its glow. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Once the germ has been removed for oil, the kernels are crushed. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z She pours the oil into the baby’s mouth, turns him over, presses on his back, turns him back over, sticks a spoon down his throat and brings up a white ball. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z The rocks go in the bowls, along with a few drops of the oils she brought: lavender, lemon, and rose. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z The lyrics contain many references to animals, foods, perfumed oils, etc. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Something sputtered as it dropped in hot oil. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z They had inherited the furniture from Coraline’s grandmother, along with a wooden coffee table, a side table, a heavy glass ashtray, and the oil painting of a bowl of fruit. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z Squatting quietly in the cool pagoda, they would help Dobbins disassemble and clean his machine gun, carefully brushing the parts with oil. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “Is that really how you’re supposed to eat it? People eat oil like that?” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Even with the murders, they kept on coming, the greatest oil barons in the world. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z He smelled like spiced meat and car oil, which already was an unsettling combination before a whiff of cigarette smoke was added to the mix. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Indeed, Athens’ most important exports to Ptolemy’s kingdom would not have been her signature products, such as wine, honey, and olive oil, or even books for the Great Library, but intellectuals like Eratosthenes himself. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z I read the sides of vegetable oil cans. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z The only evidence I saw of the oil splash was a wide burn scar under her chin. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z The smell of cold and horse and oiled leather filled her nose, and she could see the lacings of each small plate of their armor. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z “I just have to get out of high school. We’re like oil and water, school and me. I wish Mom would let me quit.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z He told me he was living with his wife and a pack of kids in a mobile home behind the barn, making his money working oil rigs in North Dakota. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The painting over their fireplace, by Daniel Aronstein, was a modem depiction of an American flag: strips of frayed muslin layered with oil paints in greens and mauve. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z At night, when she took off her bun, she allowed her grandchildren to plait her remaining hair into a tight, oiled, gray rat’s tail with a rubber band at the end. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “I need a place for my family,” he told Graham Salter, the man whose good luck Henry had followed through the oil fields since he was sixteen. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Ammu always noticed them in the market, the women with vacant eyes and forcibly shaved heads in the land where long, oiled hair was only for the morally upright. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He saw an article that talked about special classes in the new school that had just been built in New London with tax money from the oil companies. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z More than a hundred years after oil was discovered in Osage territory, a new revolutionary source of energy was transforming the region. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “Good thing Mom left. Can you imagine her ever living without things like this? Or using palm-kernel oil?” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z No ribbon falsified her blameless and implacable headgear; on her woolen head there was only the barest minimum of oil. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z By the time we had reached it sweat was running like oil from Finny’s face, and when he paused involuntary tremors shook his hands and arms. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z In one month alone, according to my diary for 1939, I completed eighteen oil paintings. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z Catelyn had been anointed with the seven oils and named in the rainbow of light that filled the sept of River- run. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z It was clear that I was unused to bleaching palm oil, that I was used to vegetable oil, which did not need bleaching. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z The train flew over its pylons, curving toward the center of the trade nexus, speeding over brackish water, bright with leaked waste oil and scrap trash and the stink of chemicals. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes the loner digs a well and a cesspool, and plants a small garden, but others transport their water in fifty-gallon oil drums. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Then the goddess pulled a vial from behind the counter and sprayed some honeysuckle-smelling oil around Percy’s face. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z On the top shelf were two cans of motor oil and he put the pistol in his belt and reached and got them and set them on the bench. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z When she kissed him for the last time, Dany could taste the sweetness of the oil on his lips. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “Some day this oil will go and there will be no more fat checks every few months from the Great White Father,” a chief of the Osage said in 1928. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Its body was a man’s body, oiled and slick. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z He came to realize that any business in the oil patch was an enormous gamble, even when prices were sky high, and he really wasn’t much of a gambler. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z A high gray wall of steel that was the side of an immense oil tanker rumbled toward him, a rolling white froth at its bow. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z The tribe knew that there were some oil deposits under the reservation. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z I wandered around the outside aisles, looking at the awkward Stations of the Cross, done in grubby oils, almost a paint by numbers. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Lord Asriel stood by the fire sipping the last of the coffee and watching darkly as Thorold opened the case of the projecting lantern and uncapped the lens before checking the oil tank. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “You must be very confused if you think the oil companies are doing us a favor,” Obinze said. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Brother always smells like oils and incense, and he's always kicking black facts to everybody. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z “Wow. And they used oil for everything, right?” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Above a spacious fireplace an oil portrait of the Founder looked down at me remotely, benign, sad, and in that hot instant, profoundly disillusioned. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Soon the duct would give way and he’d sink again, his lungs filling with oil, thrashing and gurgling— Calm down, you idiot. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z |
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