A flammable hydrocarbon oil used as fuel in lamps and heaters

Usage examples of kerosine.

The night slowly descended on us and the kerosine lamps came alight, one by one, along the street.

It also smelt of kerosine and candle-smoke, but it did not have the curious odour in our room.

While Mum wended her long way back home the street traders sold drinks and sweets, cigarettes and mosquito coils, kola-nuts and chewing gums, cheap sunglasses and kerosine lamps.

His hefty brothers sat around him in the shop, their faces glowing with money and the light from the kerosine lamp.

The room on the other side was lit by candles and several kerosine lamps with glass chimneys.

And all of wartime France has barely enough kerosine to fuel the jet on two short missions.

December twilight, while close at his elbow all unnoticed a smoking kerosine lamp went smudging its acrid path to the ceiling.

Neither oil nor kerosine had as yet disturbed the reign of the three old-established fat-lamps, which, suspended from the rafters by a twist of fencing wire, shed a soft, if somewhat dim, light on the table.

In an old kerosine tin by the open window bloomed a fine geranium, and the wall was papered with leaves from the Illustrated News.

I snuck back and looked through a crack in the door and I seen a feller in the dry gully which run along behind the store, and he had a can of kerosine and some matches and was setting the store on fire.

To rid yourself of a corn, grease it with a mixture of castor oil and kerosine and then soak the foot in warm water.