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Examples
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This embarrassed him — not because he was modest of spirit, however, but for the fact that the stench of the seal-oil had robbed him of his appetite, and that he keenly desired to conceal his feelings on the subject.
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Yet the seal-oil burned brightly and we were warm and comfortable.
Chapter 31 2010
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This embarrassed him — not because he was modest of spirit, however, but for the fact that the stench of the seal-oil had robbed him of his appetite, and that he keenly desired to conceal his feelings on the subject.
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He realized that while he had enjoyed sexual congress with more than one young woman, he had never felt such a strong sense of … intimacy … as he did at this moment sitting chastely in the seal-oil lamplight with this half-naked young native woman.
The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007
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Irving saw at once that it would make a perfect cooking pot or teakettle hanging low over the seal-oil flame.
The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007
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With everything packed — the extra furs and canvas bags and hide-wrapped pots and seal-oil lamps all lying atop and around Crozier — Silence slips into harness and begins pulling them across the ice.
The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007
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There was a cooking area on the snow ledge to the right of the entrance, and the antler-and-wood frame there not only suspended their various cooking pots over seal-oil flames but was used as a clothes-drying frame as well.
The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007
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Was he supposed to bring it home to serve as part of his own seal-oil blubber lamp?
The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007
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But always the optimist, Diggle had cobbled together a crude seal-oil stove and cooking pot which he was ready to light if and when they shot more seals.
The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007
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During the first hours he'd been awake in the tent, Crozier had wondered at the profusion of robes, parkas, furs, caribou hides, pots, sinew, the seal-oil lamps made of what looked to be soapstone, the curved cutting knife and other tools, but then he realized the obvious: it had been Lady Silence who had looted the bodies and packs of the eight dead Esquimaux killed by Lieutenants Hodgson and Farr.
The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007
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