Coals

Examples

• Rent, even where coals afford one, has generally a smaller share in their price than in that of most other parts of the rude produce of land. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Here is a weekly allowance, with a certain weight of coals, drops from the clouds upon me. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Coals may be considered both as a material of manufacture, and as an instrument of trade. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Coals carried, either by land or by inland navigation, pay no duty. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• They slept, or appeared to sleep, for some time; nobody stirring but Barney, who rose once or twice to throw coals on the fire. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Are coals to be relied upon? Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• The woman of Pablo said nothing and went on blowing up the coals of the fire. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• At any rate, let them pay the cost of their coals. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• And I don't think my sermons are worth a load of coals to them. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The quantity of coals requisite for the production of the gas manufactured annually in London is upwards of 600,000 tons. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Had the different strata of clay, gravel, marble, coals, limestone, sand, minerals, &c. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Search him, slaves--for an ye suffer a second impostor to be palmed upon you, I will have your eyes torn out, and hot coals put into the sockets. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• But, the confiding young man proceeded to heap coals of fire on his sensitive head. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• The hydrogen gas is so obtained by the decomposition of water, effected by passing steam through highly heated coals. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Hot coals, red-hot stoves, gas flames, and candles shine by their own light, and are self-luminous. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• But I live on broken wittles--and I sleep on the coals'--here the waiter burst into tears. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• To overcome that difficulty, it was proposed to build ships large enough to carry a supply of coals sufficient for the voyage there and back. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• What would he do with coals? Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• What do you think of his having had me over the coals this very evening, because I don't squeeze you enough? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• You'd save coals if they put you behind the fender in the waitin'-room at a public office, you would. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• She flung it into the fire, with a force that brought some of the glowing coals whirling out into the room. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• I take my allowance and my certain weight of coals. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• The board allows you coals, don't they, Mrs. Corney? Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Mr. Sillerton Jackson stretched his ankles nearer the coals and emitted a sardonic whistle. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Coals, in the coal countries, are everywhere much below this highest price. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Old Osborne was in the room with a face livid with rage, and eyes like hot coals. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Cox and Greenwood; but the Major being in Madras at the time, had no particular call for coals. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• It's a pleasant spot; and a man with coals and candles and a pound a week might be in clover here. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Coals, candles, and house-rent free,' said Mr. Bumble. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• The only noise in the cave now was the hissing from the hearth where snow was falling through the hole in the roof onto the coals of the fire. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.

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