Disraeli once described the manner of Bishop Wilberforce as "unctuous, oleaginous , saponaceous." And the good prelate was ever afterward known as Soapy Sam.

As the oleaginous matter exudes, it falls in drops through the apertures into a wide-mouthed calabash placed underneath.

Her son (of whom I feel truly ashamed to be obliged to speak again so soon) made an effort to extricate his mother--involved himself in a series of pecuniary disasters, which commercial people call, I believe, transactions--struggled for a little while to get out of them in the character of an independent gentleman--failed--and then spiritlessly availed himself of the oleaginous refuge of the soap and candle trade.

"Dirty-looking beggars," said I over my shoulder: "dark as dark; blue chins, oleaginous curls, and ear-rings; ragged as they make them, but nothing picturesque in their rags."

The exports of coffee, tea, mate drink and spices increased by 4.49 percent, from $8.258 million to $8.629 million whereas the exports of oil seeds and oleaginous fruits also increased by 48.74 percent, from $3.465 million to $5.154 million.

The imports of coffee, tea, mate drink and spices decreased by 11.69 percent, from $718.257 million to $634.238 million whereas the imports of oil seeds and oleaginous fruits also decreased by 7.74 percent, from $1335.165 million to $1231.826 million.

" Just watched 'PM Narendra Modi', it's more of an oleaginous love letter than a biopic!" a Twitter user, Ashish Srivastava wrote.

Yet the words of Amlo, as the president is acronymically known, resonate with his nation's rich history as fertile soil for popular rebellions broadly geared towards the very goals he has articulated with greater sincerity, one is inclined to hope, than any of his oleaginous predecessors.

Fatter now, plusher, older, oleaginous , but the same brazen face.

Meanwhile, in Texas, substance triumphed over style: Ted Cruz, whose campaign manner is about as appealing as Uriah Heep on a particularly oleaginous day, managed to turn back the media and out-of-state money-fueled charm offensive of Beto O'Rourke.