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Usage examples of oilman.

Charlotte Perkins Oilman, whose novel Herland is one of the best and pithiest separationist Utopias ever penned.

I told her to forget this doctor nonsense and talk more reasonably about the oilman and his petrodollars and what he had her do.

Santa Fe was the state capital and attracted a large number of alcoholics who were legislators or lobbyists, plus oilmen, cattlemen and tourists.

The two oilmen were leaning over the rail at the other end of the boat and David was just going to creep away when he heard the name of his father mentioned.

You say you are not interested in oil, yet your business is with two of the most important oilmen in the Gulf.

Your Eenglish officials and the oilmen, they know only what 'appen on the surface.

There were only three passengers besides myself -an officer of the Trucial Oman Scouts and two oilmen who were straight out from England and could tell me nothing.

These oilmen out from England - stupid men like Erkhard who don't understand the Arab mentality -they don't realize the problems of these Bedou sheikhs, the feuds, the vague boundaries that didn't matter so long as it was desert sand and nothing more.

She'd got it from one of the oilmen at the al-Menza Club and she said she was telling me because, if things went badly for David, I might be able to make use of it.

Being oilmen yourselves, you'll know it requires quite a group of men and a complex of buildings to provide the care and maintenance for a couple of thirteen-thousand-five-hundred-horse-power aircraft-type turbines, not to mention all the monitoring and communications they have to handle.

In fact, the name Perkinite was taken from Charlotte Perkins Oilman, whose novel Herland is one of the best and pithiest separationist Utopias ever penned.