There is a miniature railway connecting them with the harbor to bring up coal and other supplies from the bay, for it requires a lot of fuel to generate the tremendous voltage necessary to throw a message across the Atlantic Ocean.
Several sailing ships are now tied up at the dock which bring over coal and take back barley to make the British beer, for this is the headquarters of the barley trade in Ireland.
The "bog trotter" is an individual to be cultivated, for when our coal deposits in the United States are exhausted we may have to send over and buy some of his peat for fuel.
During the latter part of 1927 my company, the American Radioactive Gas Corporation, had been keeping me busy investigating reports of unusual phenomena observed in certain abandoned coal mines near the Wyoming Valley, in Pennsylvania.
I jumped ahead, barely escaping the avalanche of coal and soft rock, but my companions, who were several paces behind me, were buried under it, and undoubtedly met instant death.
The lecturer explained that while from one ton of coal there was obtained on an average about 17 oz.
The bone coal is then left to stand for 24 or 30 hours and at the end of this time is washed with distilled water until the wash water no longer reddens a blue piece of litmus paper, i.
After the war began, it was unable to obtain coal or other supplies from any neutral port and at the same time it was equally unable to remain in any such port without being interned for the duration of the war.
When vessels were obliged to coal at Guantanamo, forty miles distant, the next in line covered the cruising interval.
The Egyptian authorities refused him permission to refit his ships or to coal, and the American consul had with foresight bought up much of the coal which the Spanish Admiral had hoped to secure and take aboard later from colliers.
What's the use in me spendin' money for coal if all you do is to let the cold night in the room itself?
George only earned a pound a week--he had been made clerk to a coal merchant by his mother, who thought that more genteel than carpentering--and after his marriage he had constantly borrowed from his parents.
He had only something like a dollar and fifteen cents of Carrie's money, with which he had intended to pay the two weeks' coal bill before the present idea struck him.
The same day he said: "I think this Italian up here on the corner sells coal at twenty-five cents a bushel.
One day the following February he was sent on an errand to a large coal company's office.
She could see the tall runway and the heap of earth and coal cast out.
I paid for some coalthis morning, and that took all but ten or fifteen cents.
The facility for transporting the coal from the supply point to the boiler room.
What should be noted with respect to the coal supply?
Other conditions, such as the price of land, difficulty of obtaining water, facilities for delivery of coal and removal of ashes, etc.
The door at F provides for the entrance of coal and the removal of ashes, while at P, the pump and heaters may conveniently be located.
As shown, the coal may be obtained either by boat or rail, and with modern machinery for conveying the coal to the interior of the station, the transportation cost is reduced to a minimum.
In this connection, an admirable location, other conditions permitting, is adjacent to a railway line or water front so that coal delivered by car or boat may be unloaded directly into the bins supplying the boilers.
If the coal be brought by train, a side or branch track will usually be found convenient, and this will usually render any carting of the fuel entirely unnecessary.
View of a station admirably located with respect to transportation of the coal supply.
Moreover C is near the railroad where coal may be obtained without the expense of cartage, and being located at the river, the plant may be run condensing thus effecting considerable economy.
Some few soil bacteria have been shown to be capable of utilizing free H, and it seems certain that the bacteria associated with the spontaneous heating of coal may oxidize free C.
One group of bacteria concerned in the spontaneous heating of coal seems to be able to use free carbon from this material.
Yet the mediaeval monks burnt no coal and were careful to live in beautiful sites and fine air.
But the black fogs of London are mist soaked with preventable coal smoke; their evils have been recognised from the first.
First of all, the bulging stocking with its lumps of coal and pieces of carefully wrapped sugar with really pretty things stuck in between.
With a quick motion she swept the children nearer to the warmth of the coal stove, then started for a door at the opposite end of the room.
In most of the coal-countries of this island there are from five to seven beds of coal stratified with an equal number of beds, though of much greater thickness, of clay and sandstone, and occasionally of iron- ores.
Out through the coal and iron regions of Pennsylvania, into Ohio and Indiana, and on westward into the States bordering on the Mississippi River, industry crept.
By its use an entire car of coal could be emptied with a roaring rush into the hold of a ship or the engine room of a factory.
When one of the brakemen threw a chunk of coal he shouted and his voice could be heard above the rumble of the coal cars.
At night, when heavily loaded coal trains rumbled past, the brakemen heaved large chunks of coal over the fence.
That's for Mike," it shouted and a great chunk of coal thrown from the train bounded across the potato patch and struck against the back of the house.
It brought coal from the hill country of West Virginia and southeastern Ohio to ports on Lake Erie, and did not pay much attention to the carrying of passengers.
When the train had passed the widow got out of bed and brought the coal into the house.
One type of machine would take a regular steel coal car in its enormous claws and turn that car over, emptying the load of coal into a ship as you might empty a cup of flour with your hand.
The taxi did drive in through a kind of tunnel--a place suggesting coal wagons--but there were no massive, silent doors to close behind it.
From her geographical position with regard to ore, limestone, and coal it would seem that Buffalo might well become a great iron and steel city like Cleveland, but for some reason her ventures in this direction have been unfortunate.
The coal shovel is his ponderous fist, and the extent to which his cheeks are capable of stretching alone regulates the size of his mouthfuls.
When a certain quantity of coal is burned, a certain quantity of heat, or thermal energy as it is sometimes called, is produced, and the quantity of heat so produced is definitely proportionate to the quantity of coal consumed.
We have first the transformation of the coal in the furnace into heat.
Lockyer points out that the heat radiated from every square yard of the sun's surface is equal to the amount of heat produced by the burning of six tons of coalon that area in one hour.
She has to buy fuel in the winter, and kindling wood costs her three cents a bundle and coalfifteen cents a pail.
The Floating Docks are among the principal sights of the East River, as are also the vast coal and ship yards.
The cellar will be used for the boilers, engines and heating apparatus, and for the storage of coal and other bulky material.
The cellar containscoal bins with a capacity of 500 tons.
The coalvaults of the present Herald office are an improvement upon the original office, which was sanctum and counting-house all in one.
A tramp ship going to Asia and stopping at Durban, South Africa, for bunker coalwas one's only hope of avoiding the long and tedious journey by way of Madeira and the big expense.
Coal sells at $12 a ton, but little is used, as summer prevails the year round.
The wages of the coalpassers are based on the amount of coal a ship takes on, as an equal sum is paid the coalers.
Grass baskets, that hold but a shovelful, are used to coal ships at this Japanese port.
We have reached Wankie, a coal mining district, and a rich one, too, for the mineral may be seen cropping out of the ground on each side of the track.
The time required to furnish a vessel with bunker coal in this manner is from four to five hours.
A cargo of coal had just been unloaded, and the dust was an inch deep on the deck.
The scows have been made fast to the ship, the baskets are being filled, the coal passing line is formed from the barge to the vessel, extending up a ladder to a hatch over the bunkers.
The fare is six cents, and the light in the cars is from murky, coal oil lamps.
Coal firms generally give the master of a ship a commission on fuel supplied, and chandlers maintain the same custom when furnishing stores.
The girl takes one of the cakes, and if it is found to contain the coal she is expelled from the community, while if she chooses the piece of silver, she is pardoned and made over to one of the caste.
In Nimar, if an unmarried girl becomes pregnant, two cakes of dough are prepared, a piece of silver being placed in one and a lump of coal in the other.
To the east was Russia, broken by war with Japan; Russia with her gold mines, her wheat granaries, her vast coal and iron deposits and forests all undeveloped.
She looted the iron and coal mines of Belgium and France and the wells of Rumania for the oil; she has looted the mines of Poland, Rumania and Serbia of their bronze, lead, zinc, copper.
She saw the log advance, and before any one could check an unexpected movement which seemed prompted by a kind of delirium, she bounded from her bed, seized the tongs and threw the coal back into the fireplace.
They were seated upon the academic armchairs, which made a semi-circle round a huge hearth, on which a coal fire was burning fitfully--symbol of the burning subject of their important deliberations.
They have no coal chutes in Germany, and the coal is carried from the wagon into the house.
One card I forgot to mention is the coal card that will be issued for the coming winter.
This station is surrounded by coal yards, and last winter when it was so hard to get any coal delivered, I often felt like getting out here and stealing a lump.
They have plenty of coal but no way of delivering it, and last winter people had to go down to the freight yards and fetch the coal themselves.
The people will be given three-fourths as muchcoal as they formerly consumed.
This is a very thickly populated district, and the center of a network of railways which makes it accessible to the Westphalia coal fields.
I have sat before the dense coal fire and watched it all aglow, full of its tormented flaming life; and I have seen it wane at last, down, down, to dumbest dust.
Hold the steak in one hand, and show a live coal to it with the other; that done, dish it; d'ye hear?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "coal" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
