sweet-oil

Breakfast line wind clear out the third-grade hall and I can tell by the sweet-oil smell it got to be something good, bacon and biscuit or french toast with syrup.

Gone Michael Copperman 2009

 Breakfast line wind clear out the third-grade hall and I can tell by the sweet-oil smell it got to be something good, bacon and biscuit or french toast with syrup.

Gone 2009

Poultices of apple butter, sweet-oil and a whitish-bluish clay dug from the bottom of the spring were applied to his blistered parts.

Watch Yourself Go By Ben W. [Illustrator] Warden

First blanch the almonds, then throw them, a few at a time, into a sauce-pan of boiling sweet-oil; as soon as brown enough, take them out and put them on brown paper to absorb the surplus oil; sprinkle with salt.

The Cookery Blue Book First Unitarian Society of San Francisco. Society for Christian Work

O Rā thou givest all life (567) to the King, thou givest food for his mouth, drink for his throat, sweet-oil for his hair.

Egyptian Literature Comprising Egyptian tales, hymns, litanies, invocations, the Book of the Dead, and cuneiform writings Epiphanius Wilson 1880

He was as smooth as sweet-oil with them, and agreed to carry them over till today without any charge at all.

The Market-Place Harold Frederic 1877

The proper treatment for simple erythema consists in applying to the affected parts a little lime-water, or sweet-oil, or glycerine, with the use of warm baths and mild cathartics.

The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand Ray Vaughn Pierce 1877

We got some mattresses and pillows out of the state-rooms, and when it began to get dark we lighted the lamp -- which we had filled with sweet-oil from a flask in the pantry, not finding any other kind -- and we hung it from the railing of the stairs.

A Chosen Few Short Stories Frank Richard Stockton 1868

Among their crops in succeeding years were corn, wheat, rye, hemp, and flax; wool from merino sheep, which they were the first in that part of Pennsylvania to own; and poppies, from which they made sweet-oil.

The Communistic Societies of the United States From Personal Visit and Observation Charles Nordhoff 1865

I should as soon think of lighting the fire with sweet-oil that comes in those graceful wicker-bound flasks from

Backlog Studies Charles Dudley Warner 1864