coal-oil

"Either that boat is a daisy, or we've got a five-gallon coal-oil can fast to our keel!"

DEMETRIOS CONTOS 2010

Even now I hear the soft tread of the gum-shoed guard as he comes to censure me for my coal-oil lamp still burning.

Chapter 1 2010

That's not the south, that is coal-oil country with a little south coast spice.

Election Central Morning Roundup 2009

The growth of this coal-oil business, wrote the editor of a trade journal, was proof of “the impetuous energy with which the American mind takes up any branch of industry that promises to pay well.”

The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008

A coal-oil refiner visited the oil fields in 1860 to see the competition for himself.

The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008

He studied the subject until he found that the drainings really of those rich beds of coal furnished the coal-oil that was worth pumping, and then he found how it came up with the living springs.

Acres of Diamonds 2008

But with that plank there to throw it all over to one side, the cattle would drink below, and thus that man who had gone to Canada had been himself damming back for twenty-three years a flood of coal-oil which the state geologists of Pennsylvania declared to us ten years later was even then worth a hundred millions of dollars to our state, a thousand millions of dollars.

Acres of Diamonds 2008

He was right; by the end of 1860, the coal-oil refiners either were out of business or had moved quickly to turn themselves into crude-oil refiners.

The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008

But before he sold it he decided to secure employment collecting coal-oil for his cousin, who was in the business in Canada, where they first discovered oil on this continent.

Acres of Diamonds 2008

He was right; by the end of 1860, the coal-oil refiners either were out of business or had moved quickly to turn themselves into crude-oil refiners.

The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008