sperm-oil

All this Jesse Morgan saw from the catwalk high on the lighthouse, where he had gone to extinguish the sperm-oil lamp and start the daily chore of trimming wicks and cleaning lenses.

The Lightkeeper Wiggs, Susan 1997

All this young Davy Morgan saw from the catwalk high on the lighthouse, where he had gone to extinguish the sperm-oil lamp and start the daily chore of trimming wicks and cleaning lenses.

The Lightkeeper Wiggs, Susan 1997

Whale-fishing is a profitable industry, with its headquarters at Fayal, whence the sperm-oil is exported.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Various

In connection with this business Mr. Russell had built try works, and he started a sperm-oil factory.

The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 5, Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 5, May, 1886 Various

Still remaining in the bottom of his bag might have been found two small rubber bags filled with nitroglycerine, a cake of yellow soap, a brace and bit, a half-dozen diamond-pointed drills, a box of timers, and a coil fuse, three tempered-steel chisels, a tiny sperm-oil lantern and the steel "jimmy" which had already been tested against the obdurate transom.

Phantom Wires A Novel Arthur Stringer 1912

He groped through his bag, hurriedly yet cautiously, for his little sperm-oil lantern.

Phantom Wires A Novel Arthur Stringer 1912

With a sperm-oil smile on his face he slowly and calmly moved the adoption of a resolution deposing the speaker on the ground of "gross incompetency."

Tattlings of a Retired Politician 1904

They are regular sharks after sperm-oil, but we have four whales the best of them now.

The Junior Classics — Volume 8 Animal and Nature Stories William Patten 1902

Baxter, with a cargo of fourteen hundred barrels of sperm-oil.

The Naval History of the United States Volume 1 (of 2) Willis J. Abbot 1898

One fine afternoon I was sitting on the main-hatch, overhauling the clock-work of the taffrail-log, which hadn't been registering very well of late, and I had got the cook to bring me a coffee-cup to hold the small screws as I took them out, and a saucer for the sperm-oil I was going to use.

Man Overboard! 1881