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  • "Three dollars a week, an 'four dollars a week, an' a young boy cookin 'for himself on an oil-burner an' layin 'up money, workin' all day an 'studyin' all night, just workin 'an' never playin ', never havin' a good time, an 'never learnin' how to have a good time - of course his thirty thousand came along too late."

    Chapter 8 2010

  • I've rented a little room out in North Oakland, retired neighborhood and all the rest, you know, and I've bought an oil-burner on which to cook.

    Chapter 22 2010

  • Although Honda was rumored to be planning on bringing diesels to the United States, including their well-received 2.2-liter oil-burner, their future focus is on developing a smaller diesel for the European market.

    Honda to introduce new plug-in and electric cars 2010

  • Although Honda was rumored to be planning on bringing diesels to the United States, including their well-received 2. 2-liter oil-burner, their future focus is on developing a smaller diesel for the European market.

    Honda to introduce new plug-in and electric cars 2010

  • Forced air oil-burner systems are harder to construct and descriptions of such systems can be found in technical books (see bibliography).

    2. Kilns 1987

  • For instance, we may have a half-inch oil-burner, in which case we would probably have to expose a standard negative at four inches in order to get the proper contrasts.

    Bromide Printing and Enlarging A Practical Guide to the Making of Bromide Prints by Contact and Bromide Enlarging by Daylight and Artificial Light, With the Toning of Bromide Prints and Enlargements John A. Tennant

  • It was Frank's first experience aboard an oil-burner, and he had not become used to it yet.

    The Boy Allies with the Victorious Fleets Or, the Fall of the German Navy

  • After she'd picked out her boat she changed to another because she learned, at the last minute, that the first boat was an oil-burner.

    Gigolo Edna Ferber 1926

  • "Three dollars a week, an 'four dollars a week, an' a young boy cookin 'for himself on an oil-burner an' layin 'up money, workin' all day an 'studyin' all night, just workin 'an' never playin ', never havin' a good time, an 'never learnin' how to have a good time - of course his thirty thousand came along too late."

    Chapter 8 1908

  • I've rented a little room out in North Oakland, retired neighborhood and all the rest, you know, and I've bought an oil-burner on which to cook.

    Chapter 22 1908

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