So now Alfred is pushing a truck for an oilman in the Isle of Dogs at a shilling a day.
But the oilman thinks him "kind of dormant," and it is possible that he may be sent back to the school for a time.
He stopped at the shop of an oilman and offered him the honey for sale and he bought it.
If you cannot get sawdust anywhere else, anoilman will let you have enough to last you a month for twopence.
The evening before the contest the oilman gave the bullock a big feed of meal and oilcake; and on the eventful morning the villagers all collected and watched him oiling its horns and tying a bell round its neck.
And they admitted that they were wrong and awarded the calf to Sona and fined the oilman five rupees for having deceived them.
From that day the oilman no longer put the bullock to work the oil mill but fed it well and left it free to go where it liked.
But the oilman objected to the mahout's riding the elephant; no one was going to ride his bullock.
And the oilman took the five hundred rupees and they all went home.
But the leading villagers urged him and undertook to find the money if he lost, and to persuade the Raja that the oilman was mad, if he became angry with him.
Then," said the jackal, "explain why you have given the oilman a decree.
There was once an oilman with five sons and they were all married and lived jointly with their father.
Sona did not wake up and knew nothing of all this, the next morning he got up and went to untie his calf and drive it away, but the oilman would not let him and claimed the calf as his own.
Then the oilman gave the bullock a slap on its back and said "Take care: you are going to fight an elephant; if you owe me so much money you will win, and if not, then you will be defeated.
When the oilman saw such a fine calf he coveted it and he told Sona to put it in the stable along with his own bullock and he gave him some supper and let him sleep in the verandah.
The first thing an oilman does after amassing a few millions is buy a ranch on which he can get away from oil--and on which he can spend some of his oil money.
Some observed, but the average American hunter's observations on game animals are about as illuminating as the trophy-stuffed den of a rich oilman or the lockers of a packing house.
Mature in style and in interpretative power, John Joseph Mathews goes into the very life of an oilman who was something else.
Donovan, Ralph, and I had better go in and chew the rag with them awhile," the oilman continued.
Oh, you're being an old woman, Ken," the oilman snapped.
Peter, who boasted that he had been an oilman for a quarter of a century, worked effortlessly.
One of my trucks is returning to Farmington after supper," spoke up the oilman named Tom.
And you turned out to be the best all-round oilman I ever hired," said Hall as he slapped the other on his bronzed, smoothly muscled back.
All right, fellows," the oilmanshouted to stop the riot.
He hesitated about doing this because the oilman was following the bidding with tense interest and making endless notes on the backs of old envelopes that he kept dragging out of his vest pockets.
Look at that oilman who's just made a strike," he said.
The oilman came over and slipped a fatherly arm around the boy's shoulders.
At a nearby diner, the oilmanordered full meals for all of them.
It chanced one day, when the oilman had gone out, that a cat ran into the shop in chase of a mouse, which so frightened the parrot that she flew about from shelf to shelf, upsetting several jars and spilling their contents.
In the second poem of the First Book we read that an oilman possessed a fine parrot, who amused him with her prattle and watched his shop during his absence.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "oilman" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
