The coaly matter it contained was not its least valuable ingredient; for by the aid of the hot blast it was afterwards found practicable to smelt it almost without any addition of coal.
But one of the peculiar qualities of the Black Band ironstone is that in many cases it contains sufficient coaly matter for purposes of calcination, without any admixture of coal whatever.
The deoxidizing process is carried on by means of chemical changes in the substance of the coaly matter.
The dense coaly outer bark alone resists decomposition, and stands as a hollow cylinder until prostrated by the wind or by the waters of another inundation, while perhaps a second forest or jungle has sprung up on the new surface.
In later formationscoaly matter is an organic substance, derived from vegetables, and there are large quantities of Laurentian carbon in the form of graphite.
These little bodies usually appear as black coaly stains on the surface of the rock, showing a slender stem or stalk, with a row of little projecting cells at one side, or two rows, one on each side.
The old limestone is black or greyish, the modern one is nearly white, because in the former the organic matter in the animal fragments has been carbonised or converted into coaly and bituminous matter.
In the former we have a multitude of small and beautiful species haunting the creeks and ponds of the coal swamps, and leaving vast quantities of their remains in the shaly and even coalybeds formed in such places.
Vegetable bodies may be resolved into bituminous or coaly matter either by means of fire or by means of water.
A substance proper for the formation ofcoaly matter is found in vegetable bodies.
Milton did the river a huge injustice when he called this the "coaly Tyne.
I have some calcareous fossil shells which contain a black coaly matter in them, which was evidently the body of the animal, and others of the same kind filled with spar instead of it.
In King George V Land there is a formation similar to the Beacon sandstones and dolerites of the Ross Sea, with which carbonaceous shales and coaly strata are associated.
Fragments of coal were once more found; an indication that coalystrata must be very widely distributed in the Antarctic.
In addition, several pieces of fossilized wood and coaly matter were discovered scattered through the "catch.
What rumours of literary life in London could then have penetrated to the shores of the “coaly Tyne.
This slate contains more or less iron pyrites, mixed with coaly or bituminous matter, which is occasionally so abundant as to render them somewhat combustible.
When the distillation is finished, the iron pipes must be removed; the coaly and other contents of the pot cleared away.
When the blue flames cease, and the saline matters become white, in the midst of the coaly matter, the batch may be considered as completed.
In the strata of brown coal and bituminous wood, where the upper layers lie immediately under clay beds, they consist of the coaly substance rendered impure with clay and pyrites.
About three quarters of an hour after the commencement of the operation, he throws back upon the sole of the hearth the fresh slags which then float upon the bath of the outer basin, and which are mixed with coaly matter.
It is assumed that it is, within the knowledge of all that, for the origin of the various seams and beds of coaly combinations which exist in the earth's crust, we must look to the vegetable world.
The trunks of such trees as the oak, yew, and fir, are often found mingled with the remains of mosses and reeds, and these often assume a decidedly coaly aspect.
Another proof of the rapid acquisition of their coaly hue is noticeable in the spring of the year.
As the coaly mass collected around the trunk when the coal was being formed, the interior was undergoing a process of decomposition, while the bark assumed the form of coal.
To this theory it must not be objected, that all the strata of coal, which are found in the same place or neighbourhood, are not reduced to that caput mortuum or perfect coaly state.
The change from a bituminous to a coaly substance can only take place in proportion as the distillation of the volatile parts is permitted.
This is certain, that we have the coaly matter intimately mixed with argillaceous and with calcareous strata.
Nothing can be more certain, than that all the coaly or bituminous strata have had their origin from the substance of vegetable bodies that grew upon the land.
If they let out our rabbits, we will untie their goat, and if they worry Coaly we will let off their duck pond.
Coaly was a knowing pig, and even Mose and Hesper liked occasionally to make him a visit.
The outer coaly layer shows tubes similar to those of the stem.
Thus the pores of fossil wood are often filled with calcite, quartz, oxide of iron, or sulphide of iron, while the woody walls of the cells and vessels remain in a carbonised state, or converted into coaly matter.
They agree in having a dense coaly nucleus of appreciable thickness, even in the flattened specimens, and surrounded by a thin and veinless wing or margin.
They are trees of large size, with a coalybark and large spreading roots, having the surface of the stem smooth or irregularly ribbed, but with a nodose or jointed appearance.
A further compression occurs, causing the coaly substance to collapse, leaving the little veins of harder mineral matter projecting.
The structures are not preserved, but merely the outer epidermis, as a coaly film.
These become filled with mineral matter before the coaly substance has been completely consolidated.
The transverse swellings of the stem show no difference of structure, except that the tubes or cells may be a little more tortuous, and a transverse film of coaly matter extends from the outer coaly envelope inwardly.
Mr Pancks's short and sharp rejoinder, confirmed by the sudden outstretching of his coaly hand, was most expressive and convincing.
Shawn put his books on his desk, and Coaly lay down, as peacefully accepting the new turn of affairs.
When Burney turned to look back toward the wreckage, he saw Coaly coming after them with the dynamite stick in his mouth, the fire slowly creeping up the fuse.
As they climbed the hill, Coaly instinctively turned toward Shawn's home, but Shawn had determined to first visit old Brad and make inquiry as to the kind of welcome he might expect from his mother.
The story of "Mary's Little Lamb" was not associated with Coaly in Shawn's mind.
Shawn turned and facing the school, tragically exclaimed, "Where I go, Coaly goes.
Burney ran for the willows under the bank as Coaly quickened his pace.
Through the windows he could see the tall sycamores and the white-graveled beach, where he and Coaly had spent so many happy hours.
Just as Coaly started through the doorway, a boy gave him a vicious kick, which set him to howling.
Coaly gave a yelp of delight and stood barking before the door.
Shawn had taught him, as a young dog, to carry things from the boat in his mouth, and faithful Coaly could be sent back for his glove or any small article left behind.
Often they are stained with oxide of iron or coaly matter.
Now, you certainly would not have this plea turn to my advantage;--why then expect that your similar plea should be allowed?
We will glance at a few points of difference in their condition.
Now, if this relation were to be classed with the approved relations of life, why should the Apostle have undertaken to awaken compassion for persons, simply because they were the subject, of it?
I admit that a species of servitude was permitted to the Jews, but in studying the subject I have been struck with wonder and admiration at perceiving how carefully the servant was guarded from violence, injustice, and wrong.
Who labored assiduously to keep the sufferings of the slave continually before the British public?
And did her family spare no pains to manifest respect for their distinguished guest, and promote his comfort?
There are two prominent reasons, however, for believing that you will never present Southern slavery to us in this lovely character, the mere imagination of which is so dear to you.
We know that the papers of which the Charleston mail was robbed, were not insurrectionary, and that they were not sent to the colored people as was reported.
And if so, did the lily white damsel he selected call the sable servant "my lord?
Apprenticeship is based on the principle of equivalent for value received.
She hadn't been trapped more'n a few hours, and she larned Coaly somethin' about the bear business.
You'd orter see what Coaly did to that varmint," said Bill.
Dred and Coaly cowered as though whipped, while "Doc's" little hound slunk away in the keen misery of fear.
Coaly was bloody about the mouth, where his first day's wound had reopened.
Throughout the neighbourhood the ground is full, to the depth of hundreds of feet, of coalyand asphaltic matter.
His sense of right and wrong became fluid with confusion; he saw no sign of anything to eat; and the loud howl of an injured heart began to issue from the coaly rampart of neglected teeth.
At the same time powerful jets of water, mixed with sand, mud, and fragments of coaly matter, were cast up, endangering the lives of both horse and rider.
Fragments of coaly shale were strewed along the edges of some of these open fissures, together with white sand, in the same manner as round the "sink holes.
I was covered with coaly mud--knees, elbows, shoulders, back.
Long has Tyne's swelling bosom borne Great riches from the mine, All by her hardy sons uptorn-- The wealth of coaly Tyne.
When Bonaparte the world did sway, Dutch, Spanish, did combine; By sea and land proud bent their way, The sons of coaly Tyne.
Our keelmen brave, with laden keels, Go sailing down in line, And with them load the fleet at Shields, That sails from coaly Tyne.
Round about the bed shafts of the mine, the downcast and the upcast, a little space was held voluntarily clear and half a dozen men in coaly flannels were standing there.
Throughout the neighborhood the ground is full, to the depth of hundreds of feet, of coaly and asphaltic matter.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "coaly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: black; dark; ebony; inky; midnight; pitchy; raven; sable; sloe
