The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania.[…]It was used to make kerosene, the main fuel for artificial lighting after overfishing led to a shortage of whale blubber. Other liquids produced in the refining process, too unstable or smoky for lamplight, were burned or dumped.

this new healthcare proposal merely applies a bandage to the current medical crisis

There is, in most Frenchwomen, a gushingness, an unrestrained outpouring of inner self […]

We just twist up Chancery-lane, and cut along Holborn, and there we are in four minutes time, as near as a toucher.