"Gasoline" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... unjustly treated and that if she knew who had killed him she would have warrants sworn out against them. For saying this she too was lynched, although she was in an advanced state of pregnancy. Her ankles were tied together and she was hung to a tree, head downward. Gasoline and oil from the automobiles near were thrown on her clothing and a match applied. While she was yet alive her abdomen was cut open with a large knife and her unborn babe fell to the ground. It gave two feeble cries and then its head was crushed by a member of the mob with his heel. Hundreds ...
— A Social History of the American Negro • Benjamin Brawley
... for.—"Bathe the affected parts in gasoline; be careful not to use the liquid where there is fire ...
— Mother's Remedies - Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers - of the United States and Canada • T. J. Ritter
... many forms and under many names. "Burning fluid" is a popular name with many unscrupulous dealers in the cheap and nasty. "Burning fluid" is usually another name for naphtha, or something worse. Gasoline, naphtha, benzine, kerosene, paraffine, and many other dangerous fluids which make the fireman's vocation necessary are all the product of petroleum. These oils are produced by the distillation or refining of crude ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 288 - July 9, 1881 • Various
... down from the sphere toward the parking lot. There was a roar as a gasoline tank exploded ...
— The Whispering Spheres • Russell Robert Winterbotham
... hundred bushels a day, bears mean comparison with its modern successor; but it threshed grain at a lower cost per bushel, and threw less into the straw than has ever been accomplished by the mighty steam and gasoline ...
— The Homesteaders - A Novel of the Canadian West • Robert J. C. Stead
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