When this washing is finished, the leg sticks to the snaring-thread quite easily and adheres to it just as well as anything else would, the unoiled straw, for instance.
"The Life of the Spider"
J. Henri Fabre
As she began to turn her face toward him, with a motion of the head like that of a machine on unoiled bearings, he closed his eyes; but he felt her looking at him.
"The Second Generation"
David Graham Phillips
Turn at once into an unoiled pan.
"School and Home Cooking"
Carlotta C. Greer