1 Oh, he was a little man who looked as if he merely lived to oil his hair.
2 From fire to oil was a natural transition for burned fingers, and Amy fell to painting with undiminished ardor.
3 They also brought him the little golden cruse of oil, and told him to go and wash in the stream.
4 Nobody was at home except an old Lapland woman, who was dressing fish by the light of an oil lamp.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContext Highlight In THE SNOW QUEEN 5 I was in the drug business and then I was in the oil business.
6 Gumboes and shrimp Creole, doves in wine and oysters in crumbly patties full of creamy sauce, mushrooms and sweetbreads and turkey livers, fish baked cunningly in oiled paper and limes.
7 In yet other rooms they were putting up meats in boxes and barrels, and wrapping hams and bacon in oiled paper, sealing and labeling and sewing them.
8 They were new and beautiful, and the color bearer habitually oiled the pole.
9 Sam was there new oiled from dinner, with an abundance of zealous and ready officiousness.
10 This time a badly oiled hinge suddenly emitted amid the silence a hoarse and prolonged cry.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XI—WHAT HE DOES 11 It was obvious that this gate and those hinges, carefully oiled, were in the habit of opening more frequently than was supposed.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE TORN COAT-TAIL 12 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.
13 The Aged especially, might have passed for some clean old chief of a savage tribe, just oiled.
14 I was surprised to find it had been carefully oiled and cleaned.
15 Hair parted, brushed, oiled, under a green-lined parasol held in a big white hand.