Oiled

Examples

• Then he was looking through the thinning trees and he saw the oiled dark of the road below and beyond it the green slope of the hillside. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• 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. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Sam was there new oiled from dinner, with an abundance of zealous and ready officiousness. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• The electric light made high lights on the dull oiled leather. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• He therefore planned a system by which the ten thousand bearings in the plant are oiled automatically; requiring the services of only two men for the entire work. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The mountainside sloped gently where he lay; but below it was steep and he could see the dark of the oiled road winding through the pass. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• After the hides are thoroughly dried they are then oiled and ironed by large rollers having several hundred pounds pressure. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• By means of a soft brush the type as well as all surrounding parts that are to be covered by the plaster of Paris are well oiled. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• Maxim, the prim young Russian with the smooth, warm-coloured face and black, oiled hair was the only one who seemed to be perfectly calm and sober. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The leather was dark and oiled smooth as a used saddle. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• The room was of naked oiled panelling, like the rest of the house. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The Aged especially, might have passed for some clean old chief of a savage tribe, just oiled. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• As my hands passed over my body they came in contact with pockets and in one of these a small parcel of matches wrapped in oiled paper. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• Poor people used oiled paper, isinglass, thinly shaved leather, resembling parchment, and thin sheets of soft pale crystalised stone known as talc, and soapstone. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Birkin and Ursula sat with their backs to the wall, which was of oiled wood, and Gerald and Gudrun sat in the corner next them, near to the stove. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The wheels of the machinery of daily life were well oiled, and went along with delicious smoothness. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• They sounded also like strange machines, heavy, oiled. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .

Edited by Lester