oil-wells

He has large haciendas at Ambato and Latacunga, and down the coast is he interested in oil-wells.

The Madness of John Harned 2010

There were small stuffy corn-fields and brick-yards and greasy oil-wells.

Main Street 2004

Texas oil-wells, the comparative merits of young men born in

Main Street 2004

Stolgoland lay across a narrow and shallow sea from the State of Eglonsby; it was dotted with islands, and every one of them was in turn, dotted with oil-wells.

Space Viking Piper, H. Beam 1963

"The broken-faced gorilla behind you in the court-room If your old man shows as much judgment in picking oil-wells as he does in picking bodyguards, you're going to be on relief pretty soon."

Fear is the Key MacLean, Alistair 1961

When your old man had lost count of the number of oil-wells he owned, people didn't cross your path very often.

Fear is the Key MacLean, Alistair 1961

"Here's the lost heir found, oil-wells bubbling at our back door --"

Ralestone Luck Andre Norton 1958

Two years ago men who had more knowledge of the oil-wells than ourselves had sufficient faith in the continuity of the gas supply to offer to furnish us with gas for a sum per year equal to that hitherto annually paid for coal until the amount expended by them on piping had been repaid, and afterward at half that sum.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 520, December 19, 1885 Various

Virginia coal companies that ever sunk oil-wells, and am making more useful acquaintances than if I danced every German during the season.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866 Various

Evening found us in the cars; they lighted candles in spring-candlesticks; odd enough I thought it in the land of oil-wells and unmeasured floods of kerosene.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862 Various