"Kerosene" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... get under way?" asked Bluff, eagerly, as he examined the provisions made for cooking, with a battery of little lamps fashioned to burn kerosene in the shape of gas—Bluff was always interested in all that pertained to the cooking ...
— The Outdoor Chums on the Gulf • Captain Quincy Allen
... see Aksinya come out of the shop by the back way; she had just been selling kerosene, and in one hand held a bottle and in the other a can, and in her mouth she had some ...
— The Witch and Other Stories • Anton Chekhov
... clasped her knees, and lifted her high up above the sea of heads. Kerosene torches flickered beyond, flanking a poster on which was printed ...
— Ailsa Paige • Robert W. Chambers
... and her associates were located, the soil was immediately put to a fuller use. The cotton plants were thinned and pruned and between the rows quick growing vegetables were planted. Elsewhere the great pastures were broken up with captured kerosene-driven gang plows and by dint of hard labor the sod was quickly reduced to a ...
— In the Clutch of the War-God • Milo Hastings
... waiting-room was large, roughly framed, and lighted with hanging kerosene lamps. Within the room a door communicated with the agent's office, and this was divided by a wooden railing into a freight office and a ...
— The Mountain Divide • Frank H. Spearman
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