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He sympathized strongly with us in our grief with the cold of the hotel, and when we said that a small oil-heater would take the chill off a large room, he said that he had advised that very thing, but that our host had replied, with proud finality, “I am the landlord.”
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In one corner of the cabin stood a small oil-heater.
The Blue Envelope 1918
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She was boiling water on the oil-heater and every now and again would spill a little of the steaming liquid on the baby who was playing on the floor.
Love Conquers All Robert Benchley 1917
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Nobody can see his dugout from the road, and his oil-heater doesn't make any smoke.
The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush Francis Lynde 1893
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He sympathized strongly with us in our grief with the cold of the hotel, and when we said that a small oil-heater would take the chill off a large room, he said that he had advised that very thing, but that our host had replied, with proud finality, "I am the landlord."
Familiar Spanish Travels William Dean Howells 1878
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