whale-oil

They had prepared to overwinter, they had whale-oil supplies, seal meat.

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"But Ahuna, putting out the various calabashes of light by drowning the wicks in the whale-oil, did not observe me include the shinbone of Laulani with the bones of my grandmother."

SHIN-BONES 2010

He had brought with him a coconut calabash, tightly stoppered, of whale-oil that must have been landed on Lahaina beach thirty years before.

SHIN-BONES 2010

While he was away I placed the whale-oil cooking lamp in the middle of the igloo, and moved the mangy sleeping furs back that I might have room.

A HYPERBOREAN BREW 2010

Ahuna, sepulchrally muttering prayers and meles, moved about, lighting various whale-oil lamp-calabashes.

SHIN-BONES 2010

While he was away I placed the whale-oil cooking lamp in the middle of the igloo, and moved the mangy sleeping furs back that I might have room.

A HYPERBOREAN BREW 2010

Designed by founder William Penn to embody a stolid practicality, the houses were tidy, compact, and built of pale red brick; the streets broad and straight, with right-angle corners, flagstone sidewalks, and beginning around 1750, lit by whale-oil lamps, the first on the continent.

Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010

Designed by founder William Penn to embody a stolid practicality, the houses were tidy, compact, and built of pale red brick; the streets broad and straight, with right-angle corners, flagstone sidewalks, and beginning around 1750, lit by whale-oil lamps, the first on the continent.

Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010

There was some industry bustling when the horse-drawn buggy made way for motorcars, or when whale-oil lamps were eventually replaced with light bulbs.

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Candles, whale-oil lamps and kerosene lamps followed, then acetelyne gas and finally electricity.

Candle on the water ewillett 2007