rock oil

Example Sentences

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But by fracking the rock, oil flowed from the shale.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2014

From such processes the so-called hydrocarbons, rock oil and natural gas, have accumulated.

From Earth and Sky Every Child Should Know Easy studies of the earth and the stars for any time and place by Rogers, Julia Ellen

Girl in Tranquilla convent that nun told me liked to smell rock oil.

From Ulysses by Joyce, James

His words are:— “Petroleum, rock oil, or what the Welsh call it, Ymenin tylwyth têg, or Fairies’ butter, has been found in the lime stone strata in our mineral country. 

From Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales by Owen, Elias

So far, Bissell's enterprise seemed to promise success, yet the great problem still remained: how could he obtain this rock oil in amounts large enough to make his enterprise a practical one?

From The Age of Big Business; a chronicle of the captains of industry by Hendrick, Burton Jesse