refiner

A later writer* has called Surrey the "first refiner" of our language.

We were saying, as you will remember, that they were to be lovers of their country, tried by the test of pleasures and pains, and neither in hardships, nor in dangers, nor at any other critical moment were to lose their patriotism--he was to be rejected who failed, but he who always came forth pure, like gold tried in the refiner's fire, was to be made a ruler, and to receive honours and rewards in life and after death.

On the one hand, you are a sugar refiner, while, on the other hand, you are an Apollo Belvedere.

When this important point shall be achieved, it will be in season to turn our attention to an improvement in the manufacture of the article, But thou knowest, Richard, that I have already subjected our sugar to the process of the refiner, and that the result has produced loaves as white as the snow on yon fields, and possessing the saccharine quality in its utmost purity.”

Not, however, towards the 'shops' where cunning artificers work in pearls and diamonds and gold and silver, making their hands so rich, that the enriched water in which they wash them is bought for the refiners;--not towards these does Mr Wegg stump, but towards the poorer shops of small retail traders in commodities to eat and drink and keep folks warm, and of Italian frame-makers, and of barbers, and of brokers, and of dealers in dogs and singing-birds.

The cut reduced the cost of a litre of petrol by 2.46 rupees to 67.78 ($1.19) per litre, the country's largest refiner Indian Oil Corp.

KOCAELI, May 12, 2011 (TUR) -- Turkish oil refiner Tupras tripled Q1 net profit as higher crude oil prices coupled with increase in sales helped boost the company's earnings.

Libya's Tamoil this week became the first refiner to admit to run cuts in Switzerland, adding that it was running on reserve stocks and would consider a shutdown in a few weeks if oil prices remain high.

On Monday, Saudi Arabia's state-run crude oil producer became the second-largest shareholder of Hyundai Oilbank, Korea's fourth-largest refiner affiliated with Hyundai Heavy Industries, after taking a 17 percent stake in the company.

Indian refiners processed 21.94 million mt, or an average 5.2 million b/d, of crude oil in January, down 3.6 percent year on year, latest data from the oil ministry showed, reflecting a partial shutdown at private refiner Reliance Industries Ltd.