When Black Noggy found herself in the Muggers' dark inside, she wanted to see where she was, so she felt for the match- box and took out a match and lit it. But the Mugger's teeth had made holes in the kerosene tin, so that the flame of the match caught the kerosene, and BANG!! the kerosene exploded, and blew the old Mugger and Black noggy into little bits.英文原著 · 《The Story of Little Black Sambo》
Silverstone was gloomily considering whether he had not better blow out the lights in the New York One Price Clothing Store, and lock up for the night. Kerosene was fifteen cents a gallon, and not a customer had been in since supper-time. Business was "ofle, simbly ofle."英文原著 · 《Back Home》
Ye get similar to the lettuce--eaters the poetry-books speaks about. Ye forget the elevated sintiments of life, such as patriotism, revenge, disturbances of the peace and the dacint love of a clane shirt. Ye do your work, and ye swallow the kerosene ile and rubber pipestems dished up to ye by the Dago cook for food. Ye light your pipeful, and say to yourself, "Nixt week I'll break away," and ye go to sleep and call yersilf a liar, for ye know yell never do it.'英文原著 · 《Cabbages and Kings》
The way was dark, but here and there in niches was a kerosene lamp that faintly relieved the otherwise intense blackness.英文原著 · 《Cast Upon the Breakers》
Not far from the water station he found the Cullum homestead, a mite of a cottage, as the man had said, with a tumbled-down chimney and several broken-out windows. He looked in at one of the windows and by the light of a smoking kerosene lamp beheld a woman in a rocking-chair, rocking a baby to sleep. Three other youngsters were standing around, knowing not what to do. On a table were some dishes, all bare of food.英文原著 · 《Joe The Hotel Boy》
Then a woman ran out of the house -- a big, hard-looking woman. She had on a wrapper of some sort, and her feet were bare. She laid her hand on Jim, looked at his face, and then snatched him from me
and ran into the kitchen -- and me down and after her. As great good luck would have it, they had some dirty clothes on to boil
in a kerosene tin -- dish-cloths or something.英文原著 · 《Joe Wilson and His Mates》
But by the second half of that century, whale oil was replaced by kerosene.美剧 · 《Billions》
And then kerosene collapsed with the invention of electricity.美剧 · 《Billions》
He cooked an interview. He took pruning shears to the raw-- Rebecca, if he doused the studio in kerosene美剧 · 《The News Room》