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But the door answered: 'I won't, for she has oiled my hinges, so that they move quite easily, whereas you left them all rough and rusty.'

From The Grey Fairy Book by Lang, Andrew

He has oiled the needle-gun and done his cooking; a stone is under his head and his mantle is about him.

From Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places by Forbes, Archibald

Perhaps jealous Venus has oiled    Your hair with some opiate drug, Not choosing her charms should be foiled    By Lady Elizabeth Mugg.

From Rejected Addresses by Smith, James

May be so: But love has oiled your tongue to run so glib,— Curse on your eloquence!

From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 07 by Scott, Walter, Sir

But the door answered; 'I won't, for she has oiled my hinges, so that they move quite easily, whereas you left them all rough and rusty.'

From The Grey Fairy Book by Lang, Andrew