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Oily is so noble we’re all going to support him in his little teabagging campaign and help him get the best defense lawyers that can be found … in Mississippi or West Virginia or something.
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Oily is so noble we’re all going to support him in his little teabagging campaign and help him get the best defense lawyers that can be found … in Mississippi or West Virginia or something.
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Earth that is sulphureous or Oily, which is dispersed up and down in the Atmosphere, and is not continuous, is set on Fire by Turns, and the
The Shepherd of Banbury's Rules to Judge of the Changes of the Weather, Grounded on Forty Years' Experience John Claridge
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When one examines Alan Duncan's manouevres with the President and CEO of one of the World's most implicated Oil Trading Companies - Vitol - one finds he easily earns the title "Oily" Duncan, but not "Sleazy" Duncan.
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As the glass reflected his extended figure, it showed, almost at the same instant, the outstretched, bony hand of "Oily" Ackroyd.
Average Jones Samuel Hopkins Adams 1914
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Judge Ackroyd, you know, better known as 'Oily' Ackroyd.
Average Jones Samuel Hopkins Adams 1914
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Judge "Oily" Ackroyd's greeting of the guest within his gates did not bear out the sobriquet of his public life.
Average Jones Samuel Hopkins Adams 1914
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The fine and massive tower, with a swiftly flowing branch of the Isis at its very feet, forming a natural moat, still stands as the single relic of D'Oily's castle, and the first in point of age of the existing charms of Oxford.
Oxford Frederick Douglas How 1907
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During those heady years, notorious con artist Ollie J. Watkins (nicknamed "Oily" because of his smooth talking) and his cronies bamboozled many victims into buying non-existent orange groves in Rialto.
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During those heady years, notorious con artist Ollie J. Watkins (nicknamed "Oily" because of his smooth talking) and his cronies bamboozled many victims into buying non-existent orange groves in Rialto.
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