earth-oil

Inside, the Club was a teak-walled place smelling of earth-oil, and consisting of only four rooms, one of which contained a forlorn ‘library’ of five hundred mildewed novels, and another an old and mangy billiard-table — this, however, seldom used, for during most of the year hordes of flying beetles came buzzing round the lamps and littered themselves over the cloth.

Burmese Days 2002

In comfortless camps, in sweltering offices, in gloomy dakbungalows smelling of dust and earth-oil, they earn, perhaps, the right to be

Burmese Days 2002

They had poured earth-oil, the kind that bubbled up in black, sticky pools around here, around the foundations, splashed it up against the sides of the shed.

Exile's Honor Lackey, Mercedes 2002

They had poured earth-oil, the kind that bubbled up in black, sticky pools around here, around the foundations, splashed it up against the sides of the shed.

Exile's Honor Lackey, Mercedes 2002

_ -- In its three chief mineral products, earth-oil, coal and gold, Burma offers a fair field for enterprise and nothing more.

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