OLIO • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Olio

... rocks, and did not allow themselves to be disturbed by the enormous log-fire of driftwood we lighted on the strand to make our coffee. Here were found for the last time during our journey up the river actual marine animals: Appendicularia, Olio, medusae, large beroids, &c. Large bushy plants were still completely wanting, but the vegetable world already began to assume a stamp differing from the Arctic Ocean flora proper. A short distance south of Yefremov Kamen begins the veritable tundra, ...

— The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II • A.E. Nordenskieold

... number of simultaneous remarks and exclamations. 'When was it to be? What was it to be? An age, or a country; or an olio of ...

— Tancred - Or, The New Crusade • Benjamin Disraeli