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Especially, they do not play well with those well-tailored oleagenous sorts who tend to be campaign staffers and Beltway luminaries.
A friendly suggestion to former McCain campaign staffers. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState 2009
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Consider this: A couple of jobs ago I worked for a high-integrity organization, but somehow a certain oleagenous vendor I'll call Joe (a few other facts are changed to protect the innocent) charmed the right people and had developed a long-term cozy relationshp.
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That woman's Achilles' heel was trusting high offices of state to oleagenous self-satisfied incompetents like Major, Baker and Lawson who engineered all her failures.
Groundhog Major 2007
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Harrods stopped being our shop window in about 1985 when that unpleasant fake fakir took it over and filled it up with greasy shop assitants who spoke with the oleagenous charm of the bazaar.
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We will need some oleagenous oils; we may export this type of fat and import olive oil and peanut and vegetable oil.
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It is an oleagenous substance, naturally evolved from the earth, and may be found in all degrees of thickness, from a very light substance found in some parts of
Western Worthies A Gallery of Biographical and Critical Sketches of West of Scotland Celebrities 1879
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Cleansed and judiciously mingled with an oleagenous element,
Man of Uz, and Other Poems Lydia Howard Sigourney 1828
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Now I am come within the atmosphere of the Illisium groves, how reanimating is the fragrance! every part of this plant above ground possesses an aromatic scent, but the large stillated pericarpes is the most fragrant part of it, which continually perspires an oleagenous sweat, as warm and vivific as Cloves or Mace, I never saw it grow naturally further North than Lat. 33°, on the Mobile river and its branches, and but one place in East Florida near Lake George, Lat.
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I would then get Behe or the oleagenous IDCist of choice to show what he/she had that a) explained the data brought in by the multitude, and b) refuted it.
Contributing to Behe's sense of martyrdom - The Panda's Thumb 2005
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It may be also pertinent to our present Designe, to take notice of what happens in the making and distilling of Sope; for by one degree of Fire the Salt, the Water and the Oyl or Grease, whereof that factitious Concrete is made up, being boyl'd up together are easily brought to mingle and incorporate into one Mass; but by another and further degree of Heat the same Mass may be again divided into an oleagenous, an aqueous, a Saline, and an Earthy part.
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