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On his return to the home grounds he frustrates a man with oilless oil wells; the town and his childhood sweetheart collapse at his feet.

From Time Magazine Archive

The lines are going in opposite directions, are leaving an oilless gap which may some day burn out the gears of U.S. industry.

From Time Magazine Archive

The song of Azael melted away,     On the solemn midnight's bieath, I thought of the talents, the oilless lamps--     Oh, Azael, Angel of Death, I know that ere long thou wilt come for me.

From Victor Roy, a Masonic Poem by Wilkins, Harriet Annie