1 But there was unmistakably a grease spot on the front of the basque.
2 When Scarlett first opened the door the thick atmosphere of the room, with all windows closed and the air reeking with sick-room odors, medicine smells and stinking grease, almost made her faint.
3 Perhaps some of the bacon grease Dilcey was using for illumination could be used for seasoning.
4 She must remember to tell Dilcey to use pine knots and save the grease for cooking.
5 He laughed and applied himself hungrily to the cold corn pone and cold turnip greens on which congealed grease was thick in white flakes.
6 Scarlett saw with amazement that her percale dress had grease spots on it and her hands were freckled and unclean.
7 She liked the smell of hot earth and clean grease; and the leisurely chug-a-chug, chug-a-chug of the trucks was a song of contentment in the sun.
8 But she now viewed a back room with a homemade refrigerator of yellow smeared with black grease.
9 To make them run easily and swiftly, the axles of carriages are anointed; and for much the same purpose, some whalers perform an analogous operation upon their boat; they grease the bottom.
10 There was a building to which the grease was piped, and made into soap and lard; and then there was a factory for making lard cans, and another for making soap boxes.
11 When there was nothing else to be done with a thing, they first put it into a tank and got out of it all the tallow and grease, and then they made it into fertilizer.
12 I take off my ring, I wear my worst clothes, I use no bear's grease, and I frequently lament over the late Miss Larkins's faded flower.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 18. A RETROSPECT 13 This, and the resumption of my ring, as well as of the bear's grease in moderation, are the last marks I can discern, now, in my progress to seventeen.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 18. A RETROSPECT 14 Yet of the fact that all four articles were thickly coated with grease neither the master of the house nor the mistress nor the servants seemed to entertain the least suspicion.
15 Even in the best, most friendly and simplest relations of life, praise and commendation are essential, just as grease is necessary to wheels that they may run smoothly.