Rockefeller owns Standard Oil stock worth between four and five hundred millions at the market quotations.
Doesn't the Standard Oil Trust* own a score of the ocean lines?
For one of the things the Crooked Magician sent me to get was a drop of oil from a live man's body.
I have the three hairs in the tip of a Woozy's tail, a six-leaved clover, a gill of water from a dark well and a drop of oil from a live man's body.
He was something of a dandy and kept his tin body brilliantly polished and his tin joints well oiled. Also he was very courteous in manner and so kind and gentle that everyone loved him.
The whole town was full of oil. We passed through the church-yard, and it seemed as if the people had been buried in oil.
At the end of that trip we met together at midnight in a lonely field, under a blasted oak, and took an awful oath (we had been swearing for a whole week about the thing in an ordinary, middle-class way, but this was a swell affair) - an awful oath never to take paraffine oil with us in a boat again-except, of course, in case of sickness.
When he had thoroughly washed himself, and had got the brine out of his hair, he anointed himself with
oil, and put on the clothes which the girl had given him; Minerva then made him look taller and stronger than before, she also made the hair grow thick on the top of his head, and flow down in curls like hyacinth blossoms; she glorified him about the head and shoulders as a skilful workman who has studied art of all kinds under Vulcan and Minerva enriches a piece of silver plate by gilding it--and his work is full of beauty.
And I wouldn't have then, only I sent up this cotton waste and
oil from the engine-room this afternoon for a girl upstairs who had her hand burned with a smoothing-iron.
"What did he do with the professor's map that was in the oiled silk?
"But he can do a whole lot of good if he tells us what became of the map that was in this oiled silk.
Bounderby, 'when I was four or five years younger than you, I had worse bruises upon me than ten
oils, twenty
oils, forty
oils, would have rubbed off.