petrol
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Your cars, the older-fashioned sort, And drawn, perhaps, by alligators, Were not the modern Juggernaut- Child-dog-and-space-obliterators, Those "stormy petrols" of the land Which deal decease on either hand.
From More Misrepresentative Men by Graham, Harry
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