oily-smelling

Still-burning railroad ties in the garden gave off an oily-smelling smoke.

Winds cut power, spread fires across D.C. area, topple National Christmas Tree 2011

Still-burning railroad ties in the garden gave off an oily-smelling smoke.

Winds cut power, spread fires across D.C. area, topple National Christmas Tree 2011

Still-burning railroad ties in the garden gave off an oily-smelling smoke.

Winds cut power, spread fires across D.C. area, topple National Christmas Tree 2011

Still-burning railroad ties in the garden gave off an oily-smelling smoke.

Winds cut power, spread fires across D.C. area, topple National Christmas Tree 2011

After the dark, oily-smelling outer basement, I was expecting to enter a typically male basement office.

The Quickie Patterson, James, 1947- 2007

Yet it was the same enclosing metal narrowness, the same drone and vibration, the same warm oily-smelling gusts from ventilator grilles, the same duties to perform.

A Circus of Hells Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1969

A Merseian, who must have heard a noise or felt a breath of cold air -- in this fantastic oily-smelling warmth -- loomed into the control cabin doorway.

A Circus of Hells Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1969

Houses and other buildings were being pulled down to make stations; great hoardings were up, enclosing spaces where work went on all day, amidst clankings and groanings of machinery, and clouds of oily-smelling steam, and where work went on all night, with more groanings and more clankings, deplorable shrieks of steam-sirens and hellish flares that might have been reflections from a burning Tophet, cast upon yet bigger and denser clouds of the oily-smelling steam.

The Dop Doctor Richard Dehan 1897