Like old rags used by a mechanic

Usage examples of oily.

Taking some azotic acid, he mixed it with glycerine, which had been previously concentrated by evaporation, subjected to the water-bath, and he obtained, without even employing a refrigerant mixture, several pints of an oily yellow mixture.

It was warm, spicy, meaty, with an oily texture that seemed to vanish into dry crumbliness in his mouth.

It is not, however, quite correct to say that fats are hard to digest, because, although from their solid, oily character, they take a longer time to become digested and absorbed by the body than most other foods, yet they are as perfectly and as completely digested, with the healthy person, as any other kind of food.

The leaves are eaten raw with pickled fish to correct its oily indigestibility.

In the heady flush of expectant fatherhood, Eddie had lapped up those oily words, believing as only he could that everything was possible.

Through the fiddleys on the boat deck came a hot oily breath and the steady drumming of her burning heart.

It was a flightless cormorant: scruffy and black, a thing of stubby useless wings and oily feathers.

Then it appeared that the cook would not believe in them, and he did not send them, till they were quite faint, the peppery and muddy draught which impudently affected to be coffee, the oily slices of fugacious potatoes slipping about in their shallow dish and skillfully evading pursuit, the pieces of beef that simulated steak, the hot, greasy biscuit, steaming evilly up into the face when opened, and then soddening into masses of condensed dyspepsia.

He panted and sweated, and his face, in the gaslight at the corner stanchion, gleamed in oily unhealth.

In a wooden crate I find several gray, lightly greased ball hearings made of solid steel, each a little bigger than a golf ball, wrapped in oily paper.

While Kirin nursed a steaming cup of kaff, Temujin puffed on a small black oily pipe and was engaged in giving the thief some background information on the mysterious leader of the Death Dwarves.

How and then a stray limmer of sunslie would escape the haze ,and turn the oily smooth surface into a sparlding pool which would himmer and move and sfide back into the brown oneness of the river.

Black curly hair, turning gray at the temples and filthy with dandruff, receded from his forehead and fell around his shoulders, while an oily, unkempt beard dripped down the sides of his fat cheeks, themselves the color of mildewed wax.

The chymicals are mixing and boiling, and the bounty hunter adds compounds till the red muddish mixture burps gas and a caustic oily smoke begins suddenly to pour from it and is funnelled into the mine.

Up the slopes of the ridge yellow naphtha fires flared like unnatural flowers, stinking of brimstone, gushing oily black smoke.