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Kamschatka get drunk with the urine of their guests, whom they have already intoxicated: the Nova Zemblans make merry on train-oil: the

Travels through France and Italy 2004

The train-oil and gunpowder were shoved out of sight in a minute.

Wuthering Heights 2002

I saw the rust-brown face, a gaunt Indian nose, and smelt a reek of cigars and train-oil.

Cider With Rosie Lee, Laurie 1959

The Esquimaux fattens on his diet of blubber and train-oil; the slaves on the sugar-plantations grow fat in the boiling-season, when they live heartily on sugar; the Chinese grow fat on an exclusively rice diet, -- and rice is chiefly starch.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859 Various

_Greenlanders_ subsist on fish, seals, and sea-fowls, prepared and devoured in manners truly disgusting; train-oil is their sauce, and the blood of seals, their favourite beverage!

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 381, July 18, 1829 Various

Yet what absurdly incongruous things these London city gates are -- a salad jumble of architecture and machinery with a mayonnaise of train-oil and soot!

Impressions of a War Correspondent George Lynch

Among the Samoyeds, at Chabanova, on the Siberian coast, the white-whale fisheries amount to fifteen hundred or two thousand pood of train-oil a year.

Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science Old Series, Vol. 36—New Series, Vol. 10, July 1885 Various

_Laplanders_ feed on fish of every description, even to that of sea-dog, fish-livers, and train-oil, and of these obtaining but a scanty provision; they are even aspiring to the rank of the interior inhabitants, whose nutriment is of a more delicate description, being the flesh of all kinds of wild animals, herbaceous and carnivorous, and birds of prey; but bear's flesh is their greatest dainty.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 380, July 11, 1829 Various

September was occupied in building a hut amid the frost and snow with walrus hides and tusks, warmed inside with train-oil lamps.

A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole

The Russians (there is no disputing on tastes) hold train-oil to be a prime luxury; and I remember seeing a group of them following an exciseman on the quays at

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 381, July 18, 1829 Various