rock oil

How to use rock oil in a sentence

• It was called rock oil and was hawked about the streets as a sure cure for rheumatism.

  Birds and All Nature, Vol. VI, No. 3, October 1899 | Various

• It has in one part a spring of petroleum or rock oil, and one of its mountains is a volcano.

  A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume VI | Robert Kerr

• That's his centre-bit, and this is the bottle of rock-oil he's supposed to have kept dipping it in to prevent making a noise.

  A Thief in the Night | E. W. Hornung

• Girl in Tranquilla convent that nun told me liked to smell rock oil.

  Ulysses | James Joyce

• It can only be preserved in naphtha, rock oil, or some other fluid hydrocarbon.

  Cooley's Practical Receipts, Volume II | Arnold Cooley