Creed and Colonel Atkins come to me about sending coals to Tangier; and upon that most of the morning.
This day was reckoned by all people the coldest day that ever was remembered in England; and, God knows, coals at a very great price.
One man by grandeur sees mountains in the coals of his grate; another by gentleness only sunshine and grasses on Monadnock.
Next day Duffy came up with two bags of coals which Jinnet had ordered.
Fifty or mair o' the members tak' their coals frae me.
Less than a week later the girl in the dairy gave in her notice, and Duffy put up the price of coals another ha'penny.
I have dug into several, but never succeeded in finding anything except coals and a few pieces of rude pottery.
No coals or ashes were found on any of these; they appear to have been carefully cleaned out before being heaped over.
All these articles were taken from the vicinity of coalsand ashes, and burned human bones.
But it did not last so long: the fire of coals and wood could not vie with that of the celestial orb.
I was not at all frightened, however, as, of course, I had expected a somewhat similar result as soon as the coals went on.
Then we placed live coals in this opening and watched the fire run rapidly the whole length of the squared faces vis-a-vis.
The wife of Ogallah was preparing breakfast, which was of the simplest character, consisting of nothing but meat cooked over the coals as on the evening before.
In the present instance, they ripped off the principal part of the feathers, removed the interior, and cutting the framework into several sections, laid them directly on the coals that were spread out to receive them.
Her small white fingers flitted hither back and forth, while her mild brown eyes seemed to look beyond the flashing needles, and into the glowingcoals on the hearth.
And how he used to laugh, to be sure, when the coals got red and hot sparks flew!
This is a low fire, a fire of logs andcoals and peat, all beautifully, artistically, and thoughtfully arranged with the art that conceals art.
Neither could he leap over the glowing coals of the cavern that faced him, for it was much larger than the middle cavern.
We puts de dough in one and turns de other one over it, den buries it in de coals a few minutes till it brown on de top and bottom.
Each nigger have he bread and some old hairy bone meat a-cookin' with fire coals in dese ovens.
In an instant that well-nerved hand twisted it from the coarse fist of the man as if it had been a straw, and walking quietly up to the cart he unfastened its trams, and hurled the whole weight of coals into the street.
Among our Norse forefathers, King Olaf's mode of converting Eyvind to Christianity was to put a pan of glowing coals on his belly, which burst asunder.
The boys had let the fire burn down, and there was now nothing but hot hickory coals on the hearth.
And now that his poor, dead mother was again made to do service in his aunt's pious rhetoric, he landed the letter on the hot coals before him, and watched it vanish into smoke with a grim satisfaction.
Through the brightness before him were coals of fire kindled.
There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.
From a spark of fire a heap of many coals is kindled; and a sinful man lieth in wait for blood.
There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, And fire out of his mouth devoured: Coalswere kindled by it.
At the brightness before him coals of fire were kindled The LORD thundered from heaven, And the Most High uttered his voice.
Employ'd taking in Coals and Ballast; sent one of the decay'd Pumps up to Batavia to have a new one made by it.
This day got out all the Officers' stores and the ground Tier of Water, having now nothing in the Fore and Main Hold But the Coals and a little Stone ballast.
He had a bushel and a half of coals during the whole winter; and he used to lie down by the side of his clay model of the immortal figure, damp as it was, and shiver for hours till he fell asleep.
The first railroads were used for the conveyance of coals from the pits to the seaside, where they were shipped for London.
Some cold morning we shall wake and find no red coals in the ashes.
In the middle of the circular floor was a stone-lined fire pit, now filled with glowing coals that gave light to the room.
Turning from the agony of this thought she would fasten her sad eyes on the smouldering coalsas they crumbled into ashes, starting and shivering when some chance noise outside awoke new anguish of expectation.
But such words from her would have been red-hot coalsto me.
In the Wear the coals when in bulk are cast from the keel into the ship by men called coal-casters; while on the Tyne, where the crew of each keel consists of three men and a boy, the coals are always cast by the keelmen.
The exports consist of grain, timber, herrings, and other fish; the imports are principallycoals and lime, of which a great quantity is required for agricultural purposes.
When loaded, the waggons run by their own weight from the pit to the magazine, where, their bottoms being struck out, the coals are dropped into the hurries, and thence with a noise like thunder descend into the holds of the vessels.
Although many ships are loaded direct from such staiths as are at a short distance above the bridge, yet the greater part of the coals are brought down in keels from staiths situated higher up the river.
The committee blew the coals by an enumeration of rights and grievances; but its chief service was its unseen but efficient work of correspondence, from town to town.
Her eyes blazed like coals through the little grille.
She folded her arms across her chest, quivering from head to foot with passion, her deep-set eyes flashing like coalsunder her bushy eyebrows.
I been wonderin' if we couldn't reform Scraggsy by heapin' coals of fire on his head, Bart.
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