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She spilled the mixed wines over the side, watched them spread oilily among float ing cables of flowers.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sometimes the clean tablecloth of white which covered a little loch, was cut by a round black "well-eye" through which a spring oozed oilily, refusing to freeze.

From Patsy by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

Instantly, oilily, the car gyrated as on a pivot, and behold, we were facing down the valley instead of up.

From My Friend the Chauffeur by Lowenheim, Frederic

There was an azure vault above them, strewn with the lights of heaven, and a sea of deeper blue which heaved oilily below, for, that night, at least, the trade breeze was almost still.

From For Jacinta by Bindloss, Harold

As week followed week, life seemed to run so oilily at Lorge, that onlookers would have envied the unruffled lot of the tranquil lotus eaters.

From The Maid of Honour, Vol. 1 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France by Wingfield, Lewis