oil-vessel

"I, blessed of the blessed from Larth, am an oil-vessel with Arath Numasiana."

A little note on Etruscan adjectives and case agreement 2010

"I, blessed of the blessed, am Larth's oil-vessel with Arath Numasiana."

A little note on Etruscan adjectives and case agreement 2010

It was upbraided to Demosthenes by an envious surly knave, that his Orations did smell like the sarpler or wrapper of a foul and filthy oil-vessel.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

It was upbraided to Demosthenes by an envious surly knave, that his Orations did smell like the sarpler or wrapper of a foul and filthy oil-vessel.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

In less than five minutes, the oil-vessel was rolling in the trough of the sea and drifting slowly to leeward.

The Submarine Hunters A Story of the Naval Patrol Work in the Great War Edward S. [Illustrator] Hodgson 1917

Then he asked for a bottle into which to pour this precious liquor, but as there was not one to be had in the inn, he decided to pour it into a tin oil-vessel which the innkeeper had given him.

The Junior Classics — Volume 4 William Patten 1902

The penguin's body serves as an oil-vessel, and the moss as a wick.

Chatterbox, 1906 Various 1873

The works of the highest Greek sculpture are indeed intellectualised, if we may say so, to the utmost degree; the human figures which they present to us seem actually to conceive thoughts; in them, that profoundly reasonable spirit of design which is traceable in Greek art, continuously and increasingly, upwards from its simplest products, the oil-vessel or the urn, reaches its perfection.

Greek Studies: a Series of Essays Walter Pater 1866

Orations did smell like the sarpler or wrapper of a foul and filthy oil-vessel.

Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518

Looking at the mere form of the parable, it is evident that the folly of "the foolish" consisted not in having no oil at all; for they must have had oil enough in their lamps to keep them burning up to this moment: their folly consisted in not making provision against its exhaustion, by taking with their lamp an oil-vessel wherewith to replenish their lamp from time to time, and so have it burning until the Bridegroom should come.

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871