| 单词 | coal |
| 例句 | George just watched the man roll the bike off the porch, and when he passed George kicked the back fender and then went into the coal house and shut the door. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Slack was the tailings of the mine, coal with too much rock in it. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Sure enough, the coals of her dying fire are still hot. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Mam says, No, you’ll stay here where there’s no work and hardly a lump of coal to boil water for the tea. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z It occurred to her that the sounds might attract predators, and so she dragged unburned chunks of wood together and rekindled them with the still-hot coals. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I cut up the rabbit, fashion a spit out of branches, and set it over the coals. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z I did not know how to start a blaze without glowing coals, so I relied on kindly pilgrims to let me warm myself at their fires. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z He was slender, with two long braids that were dark brown, not black like coal, like the hair of the other Lakota boys. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z I go down two floors to have a look around: first to the kitchen, then to the private office and then to the coal bin to open the cat door for Mouschi. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z The miner was working a block, he said, sloughing off the coal until all that was left was a pillar. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Those with windows have glass that is tinted and shadowed; those without are dark as coal. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Lefty could see die train tracks now, the huge silos along the river, the giant spice box of coal, coke, and iron ore, and the catwalks stretching overhead like giant spiders. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The smoke from the fire she used to make coals made her head swim. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z It was as though I had rolled through a bed of hot coals. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z It would burn more than six million tons of coal each year to make up to eight million tons of steel and employ more than 30,000 workers. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z That money was no small thing to Francis Gary Powers, who had grown up the son of a coal miner in Virginia during the Great Depression, in a home with no electricity or running water. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Rooms were heated—in the Korean way—by a coal fire in the kitchen with flues running under the bedroom floor. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z There was a clatter from the coal shed and, moments later, the mother cat dashed across the yard, flushed out by the noise of the gun. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z The hoot-owl miners were the safety and rock-dust crew, assigned the task to spray heavy rock powder into the air to hold down the explosive coal dust. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z They burned in his face like red coals. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Our playmates’ families exchanged their unwanted food for sugar, coal oil, spices, potted meat, Vienna sausage, peanut butter, soda crackers, toilet soap and even laundry soap. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z When the fire had burned down to coals, Dicey spread the potatoes out on the grate. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z This secret is like having hot burning coals under my bare feet all the time. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Kaori smoothed the front of her own pajamas—coal black, with red trim—and said, “Okay, then. I’ll just prepare the spirit stones alone.” Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z They not only walked, they rolled on them and placed hot coals in their mouths. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I swam, and the waters of Champlain were so cool that they warmed, so chill they were as coals. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z At dusk, we approached a bend where hand-painted signs advertising auto repairs and coal deliveries had been nailed to trees along the roadside. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z No one who’s ever been as cold as a New England islander in February would care more about gold than coal. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z “Oh, my, yes. Heaven forbid you be embarrassed! Why, the next thing you know, the men would stop shoveling coal for you!” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z He slid the small brazier of coals closer to him, then back, a little to the left, and again to the right. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z “Your biggest trouble will be taking out the ashes and sweeping. And keep track of how the coal runs; when it’s low, tell me or Mr. Dalton and we’ll order some more.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z She gave Doreah water from her own skin, coaled her brow with a damp doth, and held her hand until she died, shivering. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Behind him billowed the coal smoke from the forge. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z She took some coals and put them in her mouth. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I can usually see the humorous side of their scoldings, but it’s easier when somebody else is being raked over the coals. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Heat rushed through her and she dropped Kaede’s hand as if it were a live coal. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Or plan to smoke a cigarette behind the coal house. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z “Well, put a couple of potatoes in that bed of coals, and I’ll set out our plates and mugs. I think we’ll have some of Jenny’s peach preserves by way of celebration.” Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z Fear had darkened Jaja’s eyes to the color of coal tar, but he looked Papa in the face now. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z When they came up with a more efficient system that transported the coal directly from the mines to the trains, the Hob gradually took over the space. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z He brought in a few bushels of coal, then lingered, asking me if I were cold. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z That was chancy; the fire she'd remem-bered seeing had burnt down to embers, and she heard voices as she was blowing on the coals. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z She blew last night’s coals into a flame and hauled a large pot to the fireplace. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Flames kindled in the coal and began to lick hungrily upward. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z His father, Anthony, had been living on his own since age fourteen, first as a coal miner and boxer, then as a construction worker. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z We have enough coal and firewood, candles too. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z But his face was a wasteland, as if his best years had been spent working in a coal mine. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z “His eyes are the color of burning coals, and his fangs are bigger and sharper than a javalina’s tusks. But his claws are just as dangerous. He can rip out your heart with them.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z He had been working with Robert every day, hauling loads of juniper and pinon for the woodpile, bringing coal from Canoncito to shovel into the shed. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Even hundreds of years ago, they mined coal here. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z After they finished, they cleaned the house, emptied the coal ash, and washed everything they had used before leaving. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z It wasn’t so easy, though, to carry the shovelful of coals and keep it level. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally there was nothing left but the bed of glimmering coals. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Just imagine, it’s still fairly cold, and yet most people have been without coal for nearly a month. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z His arms were forged of steel, his backbone was the railroad, and in his veins was the coal that powered them both. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z That means turning to wind, solar, and hydroelectric systems for power instead of coal, oil, and natural gas. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z I used to stand just here and watch the coal brought up by the handsome lad from Groza, the village my parents were bom in. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z A third cousin of Papa’s, Hopewell Stump, from out in Banks County, clerked and took care of the chickens that folks brought to trade out for nails, flour, sugar, coal oil, coffee, and chewing tobacco. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z I picked it up between two fingers and dropped it into the sink like it had been a piece of hot coal. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Beneath them the ground was soft and the soil was as black as coal. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The camp had its own coal mines and coal for heating was readily available. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Even the poorest of the poor don’t go out on Christmas Day picking coal off the road. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Gulping in long, sweet lungfuls of it, cold damp December air, smelling of petrol and coal smoke and freedom. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Is it best to let owners set rules, which is likely to give all of us cheaper coal, or to have the government set standards, which is more likely to protect workers and the environment? Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z The crocodile wouldn’t attempt to crawl over hot coals. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Juana went to the fire pit and uncovered a coal and fanned it alive while she broke little pieces of brush over it. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z I don’t care what they call me anymore as long as my eyes are clearing up and I have a regular job lifting hundredweights of coal on a float. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z The Frenchman talks about optical illusions, electromagnetism; there’s a pause and a peal of static, as though a record is being flipped, and then he enthuses about coal. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Chemistry was, generally speaking, a science for businesspeople, for those who worked with coal and potash and dyes, and not gentlemen, who tended to be drawn to geology, natural history, and physics. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z “I’ve got just enough coal to check it out and make it back to the depot.” The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z She poured in water from a black bottle; she knelt before the hearth and shoved the pot into the coals. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z “I’m glad you came. I was just about to put more coal into the fire.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z I shook the handful of coals at her. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Loud bangings and scrapings were coming from behind the Dursleys’ boarded-up fireplace, which had a fake coal fire plugged in front of it. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Then I was up in the dark and blundering around, feeling rough walls and the coal giving way beneath each step like treacherous sand. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Then Laura and Mary took turns holding the pig’s tail over the coals. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z He forgoes soap, and soon his face is as black as the coal miners’. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z While hundreds of fires were still burning on Tuesday, such as at the coal works, most of them were under control. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z It contained two tons of coal for the winter and a large supply of kindling wood. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z He still had all his hair, and it was still coal black, and his dark eyes twinkled above the paper surgical mask he was wearing. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z We treasured that coal and used it sparingly so it would stretch into a second winter. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z Her eyes began to glow like barbecue coals. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z She had burning coals for hearts, and her hate was as hot now as it had ever been. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Where his eyes should be are two dark pieces of coal separated by a sharp, thin nose, below which are thin lips that spit out saliva. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I throw another piece of coal on the fire, give Max some of the warm water to clean up with, heat more, and wash his clothes. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z All these spirits, she claimed, lived in the coal shed. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z And I don’t have a sack of coal this time. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z No matter how far back Ned searched in the brittle yellowed pages, always he found the gold yielding before the coal. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z When the weather turned cold, my father managed to tuck a few pieces of coal from the factory furnaces in his pockets, even though it was forbidden to take anything from the factory grounds. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Dad positioned me out of the way when a shuttle car darted in, its crablike arms sweeping up the coal thrown out behind the continuous miner. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z I shook my hand, scattering most of the ashes away, then thrust the handful of black coals at her. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z When he reached Peggy’s side he saw that she was staring through the cracks of the door at the red bed of livid coals. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Such as, being largely ignored by the Capitol as long as we produce our coal quotas. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z It smelled like urine and sweat and coal smoke and tar. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Moose fat pops and sizzles into the coals. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The merchant put some new coals in the hookah, and inhaled deeply. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “We are probably at the bottom of a coal mine,” the Earthworm said gloomily. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z “I heard the easy coal’s almost gone and the company’s going to pull out.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The coal yard isn’t that far out of her way. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Moving back to the fire, he spun among the dying embers on the ground with a graceful motion, gently kicking the larger coals back together. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z When she was ready for bed, Madam called for me to bring up a warming pan filled with coals and run it between the sheets because they were chilled and still a wee bit damp. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z His name is Finn the Horse and we all love him but the stable man from the coal yard doesn’t take proper care of the stable and the stink travels to our house. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Fuels like coal, oil, and gas make the world hotter. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z It was just one in a warren of such rooms that had been partitioned off in a converted coal storage basement. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z He’d already showered at the mine, most likely, but Mom wouldn’t let him in the house if he had a molecule of coal anywhere on him. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z I wallowed through the coal and climbed down the outside ladder of the car and jumped for it, skinning my hands, knees, and elbows on the packed coal around the track. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z According to the West Virginia history books, no one had ever lived in the valleys and hills of McDowell County before we came to dig out the coal. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z He felt a burning on his neck and reached up to find red coals there. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z The boat was taking fuel on board; the railcars were hauled alongside and tilted sideways to let coal thunder down the chutes into the hold, and the black dust rose high above them. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The line of coal cars beside us suddenly began slamming against each other, just before being pushed to the tipple. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z In winter, the only source of heat in the whole house was the brazier in his mother’s bedroom, where the three of them huddled together to save on candles and coal. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He was lean, with sunken eyes that smoldered like half hidden coals. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The dark things in the princess’s heart were these: a very small, very hot, burning coal of hatred for the rat who was responsible for her mothers death. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z I added a precious scoop of coal to the stove. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z The suction of air through the furnace moaned and the fire was white-hot; there was enough coal to last until he came back. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z In a fluster of self-consciousness he turned his back, dropped a hot coal into the nest of charcoal in the furnace and began to blow on it vigorously. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z Shadrach took a poker and stirred it thoughtfully among the red coals. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z It was Gale who thought of the Meadow, one of the few places not filled with old wooden homes embedded with coal dust. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z The hearth was almost dead, just a few coals glowing deep in the ashes. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z The inside of the furnace breathed and quivered in the grip of fiery coals. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z But girls like me, with coal skin and hula-hoop hips, whose mommas barely make enough money to keep food in the house, have to take opportunities every chance we get. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z There was a little stove there with a few coals glowing and a desk piled high with papers and a carpet on the floor, and some chests of drawers. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The man leads us to the coal hole under the stairs and tells us take what we can carry. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Bigger stooped and saw, through the cracks of the furnace, the coal spreading out fanwise over the red bed of fire. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Almost from the moment Europeans arrived, they realized there was coal out there in quantities almost beyond conception. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Christmas 1958 wasn’t a white one, but it was bitterly cold, no problem in a town sitting on a billion tons of the finest bituminous coal in the world. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Nothing but coal bricks at the half mark. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z She lay quiet with her eyes just a tiny bit open, staring confusedly at the soft flames that occasionally flickered up among the coals that glowed in the fire pit. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z Just puts coal in the stove and makes the tea. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z The trouble was that coal silk wasn’t as warm as proper fur, no matter how much it was padded out with hollow coal-silk fibers. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z He pulled forth another piece of brown paper and wrapped it round a coal. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Then I imagine what would have happened if I hadn’t had a bag of coal and decide this might not be such a waste of time after all. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z On the advice of the whalers, Shackleton had the decks of Endurance loaded with extra coal for ramming through the ice. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z His invention, it turned out, could also cleanse noxious vapors and particulates from smelter effluent, coal particles from mine air, and much more. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z There were forty-two coal retailers listed in the Welch phone book. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z I felt a vague flutter in my stomach as I saw Ambrose watching me with all the menace of a smoldering coal. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z We huddled around a potbellied cast-iron coal stove in the middle of the living room and held out our hands to warm them. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z The train clicked by the Union Stock Yards, doubly pungent in the day’s strange warmth, and skirted sierras of black coal capped with grimy melting snow. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The children got quiet—so quiet I could hear the coal hissing. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z There is a stable next to the lavatory where they keep the big horse from Gabbett’s coal yard. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z A Welch High School display of plant fossils found in coal mines seemed our stiffest competition. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z At night before bedtime, we all took turns brushing our teeth, but when money was tight and we couldn’t afford toothpaste, my mom told us to brush with coal. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Back home in the United Kingdom, food, clothes, coal, gas, and electricity were in such short supply they had to be rationed. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z If there was any chance of breaking free, the Boss wanted to be ready for it, and he was burning half a ton of coal a day to keep the engines fired. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z “Well, how could I? I didn’t have that kind of wealth. Besides, nothing would have happened if Goré hadn’t knocked Proud into the coals. They were both at fault, really.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He’s covered all the time with white lime dust but surely that’s better than coal dust. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z The little black coals of Sicilian eyes glared almost animatedly at Santa from the snapshot. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z On moonless nights it was as black as coal. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The fury in his eyes is familiar, the glitter of them like banked fire, like coals burning hotter than flames ever could. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z It was like Id been unearthed from a coal mine after being trapped for days and days. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z As he neared the track, a long line of loaded coal cars trundled out of his way as if in recognition of his approach. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z He watched the red coals through the open draft in the stove door brighten each time the wind blew loud enough to make a low whistling noise in the stovepipe. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z When he woke, he couldn’t smell hay or clover or apples, only coal smoke, and the spongy rotting vegetable stink of garbage. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z I started dragging things from all over the kitchen and piling them up against the door—a barrel half-filled with drinking water, a scuttle half-filled with coal and several tin chairs. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z He’s looking at ashes, gray coals, and blackened soot and bark. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z As Singleton would say later: “We were having to appease her father. He didn’t want to see her raked over the coals.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z All around me, Coalwood was always busily playing its industrial symphony of rumbling coal cars, spouting locomotives, the tromping of the miners going to and from the mine. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z He shut the door and pulled the lever for more coal. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Every day, the Germans came looking for men to load coal into the military trains. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Covered with coal dust, miners’ faces all looked alike. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z Every weekday, and even on Saturday when times were good, I could watch the black coal cars rolling beneath the tipple to receive their massive loads and then smoke-spouting locomotives straining to pull them away. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Tendrils of cigarette smoke rise from clumps of farmers in overalls and dusty feed caps, their tired faces as grimy as coal miners’. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I held that smile inside me for months, where it warmed me like a hot coal—until she stopped returning my texts. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z If a colony was to be founded, the colonists carried with them coals from the hearth of the mother-city with which to kindle the fire on the new city’s hearth. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The cockles of Billy’s heart, at any rate, were glowing coals. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z It ended up looking like a coal stove. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z When her activities were limited Jean Louise confined herself to gambling for small sums behind a coal pile in the rear of the school building. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z If the man entered and Hannah was carrying a coal scuttle up from the basement, she handled it in such a way that it became a gesture of love. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z He gets a job in the gas works in Coventry shoveling coal into the furnaces like Uncle Pa Keating, shoveling coal and waiting for the day he can go to America after me. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z About sixty percent of Shin’s class was assigned to the coal mines, where accidental death from cave-ins, explosions, and gas poisonings was common. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Deep in its tiny brain a coal of evil began to glow. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z The other camps were provided with coal, but Jerome’s director, Mr. Taylor, wouldn’t stand for that. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z He shuffled the sections together and put them back in the plastic bag and sat staring into the coals. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Food was eaten, mead was drunk, and they caroused and joked and talked and boasted and laughed as the fires became glowing coals, until the sun crept up above the horizon. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z He's rolled down through the cellar window into the pile of coal, and he's trying to stand up. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z If you leave Mr. Kugler’s office and proceed through the long, narrow hallway past the coal bin and go up four steps, you find yourself in the private office, the showpiece of the entire building. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Hardly big enough so a cat could slip through, and under it is this big pile of coal slagged up against the foundation wall. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z It might once have been a coal cellar. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z The miners coming off-shift, black with coal dirt and sweat, formed another line going in the opposite direction. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The bird’s black plumage shone like coal oil in the torchlight. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He would meet his friends in the evening at his primary school, where there was a coal grill to roast them. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z "No," replied the prince flatly, as if he'd been offered a bucketful of coal. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z “I guess you raked him over the coals pretty good, eh?” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z While he poured alcohol onto the coal and struck a spark to it, I addressed the class. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z They crushed her breasts and cut them off but when they rolled her over hot coals it was more than she could bear so she expired, giving praise. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Oh, will we? says Mam, and where will we get the coal or turf or blocks to be boiling water? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “You bank those coals when we call you in, you hear?” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z President Wilson says it will save millions of tons of coal and thus help the war effort. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Outside, coal smoke billowed like dragon’s breath from the chimneys of the workshops. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Shin entered his first coal mine at the age of ten. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z When the coals are hot, I push them into the hole, place the fish on them, and cover all with leaves, then soil. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He dug carefully with a stick until he found hot coals, then scrounged dry twigs from under the tree branches. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z Descending to more pedestrian matters, let’s consider the firewalker’s practice of walking barefoot on hot wood coals. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z That would keep them in coal if they used a fire only at night. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Jimmy poked the roasting meat with his fingers and nudged the coals, prowling around the fire as if sizing up a grappling partner. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The fourth box contained dynamite, which was disguised to look like lumps of coal, incendiary pencils, timing devices, fuses, primers, wire, screws, and sulfuric acid. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z It sizzled and fried, and drops of fat dripped off it and blazed on the coals. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z At fourteen dollars a month, his duties included controlling the mules along the canal’s towpath as they pulled the boat, which was loaded with supplies such as lumber, coal, iron, or copper ore. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Back in the kitchen she took off the apron and put it in the stove and poked the coals until a flame sprang up on the cloth. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The greatest coaling port in the world at that time was Cardiff, in South Wales. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’ll start the fire now so we have good coals for cooking supper.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z Customers could find food staples, a good variety of colored thread, mash for hogs, corn for chickens, coal oil for lamps, light bulbs for the wealthy, shoestrings, hair dressing, balloons, and flower seeds. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “You never have to use a shovel for coal. It’s a self-feeder. Look, see?” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z I'm so nervous, I could be eating coal dust. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z In the winter, children cleared snow, chopped down trees, and shoveled coal for heating the school. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z His older brother worked up around the face where the coal dust was the thickest. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The mine hadn’t gone to a full seven-day shift, even with the new orders for coal. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Without the coal cars, Coalwood was no longer covered by a daily pall of dust, but I still saw a gray, ugly crust on everything and everybody that would never come off. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “Come, you, and gaze upon the tar man! Blackly he reposes, tender face the color of soot, withered limbs like veins of coal, feet lumps of driftwood hung with shriveled grapes!” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z There were a few old boats moored on the next pier, one that looked like a coal scow, but nothing even vaguely romantic. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Her hair, unburned, was wild once more, still crackling with the fire’s kinesis, and Sarai knew that if she touched it, it would feel like a bed of coals, and so would her bare skin. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Near the fire, completely unafraid of die smoking coals, completely unfraid of Brian, a skunk was digging where he had buried the eggs. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z Jace said it pretty loud and it made me feel like I swallowed a piece of coal—while it was burning. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z Unique, unbleached, rich, the color of the finest materials on earth: oil, coal, volcanic sand. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Coalwood, West Virginia, where I grew up, was built for the purpose of extracting the millions of tons of rich bituminous coal that lay beneath it. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z It was relatively light work compared to pushing coal carts, but it required that he wear a kind of harness with a leather strap that chafed the tender scars on his lower back and tailbone. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z But first he needed to build up the fire that had burned down to hot coals. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z It had been something about the coal vein taking a turn and going the wrong direction. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z A hotfoot wasn’t going to bother a creature that was perfectly comfortable lying on a bed of coals. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z When the body was covered with coal, he pushed the lever back. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z During the long winter nights, those few pieces of coal provided our only heat as we huddled around the stove. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Encanis was held over the coals by the iron that bound and burned and bit at him. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z But in the morning, right on time, there was Max, looking up at my window as he was marched to the coal yards. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z That chunk of coal was once a green plant, a fern or reed that lived one million years ago, or maybe two million, or maybe one hundred million. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z In his aged face under great snowy brows his dark eyes were set like coals that could leap suddenly into fire. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z “The angel touched a burning coal to my forehead, bringing a sharp and blissful sorrow, and I saw before me the shining face of my dear Savior.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z The finger had touched the last warm coal in his hearth, and his body, fanning the ember, shook itself violently. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The stove isn’t completely out and I manage to coax the few live coals into a flame. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z The air was thick with the smoke from coal fires in tin braziers and stoves. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z As coal pressured into pearls by our weighty existence. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z He orders his pint and lemonade for us and asks the man if there’s any chance of getting a few lumps of coal. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z I reached into the fire pit, pushing my hand deep into the ashes until I found the unburned coals underneath. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z That was a kind of punishment favored by mobs and self-appointed judges—coal oil in the culprit’s well. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z They watched it bubble slowly in the coals and he retrieved the tin with the pliers and they ate in silence. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z And why would the rich coal mine owners work the miners so hard they died young with their lungs hardened up with coal dust? Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The house fell in red coals and black ash. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z He leaped off his chair as though it were a brazier full of red-hot coals. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The gashes seemed to have burned into him like evil coals; the blackness had spread and his arm looked like a burnt tree. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z I swallow, cringing as my own saliva feels like I gulped hot coals. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The wood and coal stove had been readied the night before, and she lit the smoldering, still-warm embers. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Chunks of coal burned in iron braziers at either end of the long room, but Jon found himself shivering. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z He’s on his hands and knees and she drags him to the coal hole under the stairs and locks him in. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z He had told them how the houses were made and the weapons were forged, how the pots were laid in hot coals for many days to season them. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Fur and feathers and the dying coals of a fire. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z “The coal yard has been hard. Men are dropping with their shovels in their hands, and Max doesn’t eat enough for the work. I think the camp will be worse.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z When the fire is roaring hot, I rake the burning coals to one side, put the squash on the large sandstone slab at the bottom of the oven, and close the door. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z If we kept to our budget, we believed, we could afford new clothes and shoes and coats, and buy a ton of coal at the cheaper off-season price. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Tayo walked over and knelt in front of the ribs roasting over the white coals of the fire. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The room held nothing of interest except the fire and finally I stood before the shimmering embers, fascinated by the quivering coals. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z When that was done, he put his finger to his lips and ran to the old woman cooking hot chocolate over the coals. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z It takes me a few seconds to realize that it’s actually a piece of coal, from the Dauntless Choosing Ceremony bowl. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z The rodent’s red eyes glared at her balefully, like tiny coals. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z They stood heads down, as in prayer, unable to see me back in the coal. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z “Sonny, I’ve been around coal mines all my life. What’s supposed to happen and what does happen in them are two different things. You think Poppy was supposed to get his legs cut off?” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z They had brought coal and made a great fire in the kitchen range and put a fresh white cloth on the table. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z After the Revolutionary War, Pittsburghers built their opportunities from whiskey and farming, then they broke their backs on coal and the railroad. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z The heat from the glowing coals brought a flush to Tyrion’s face. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The boys hid the extra bread under the coal beds. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z It was a quote from a mine fire authority observing that if the rate of burning held steady, there was enough coal under Centralia to burn for a thousand years. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z The last lines of the poem said that before becoming a diamond, everything was first coal. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z The Captain expanded Mr. Carter’s building program, providing every Coalwood miner a house with indoor plumbing, a Warm Morning stove in the living room, and a coal box the company kept full. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Pennsylvania coal country was the most dangerous place to work in America. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z The Ohio steel mill had received a big order and needed coal, lots of it. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The kind people have, an iron box in which I put a coal left over from cooking. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z When the miners went on strike, coal operators hired gunmen, including sheriff’s deputies, to assault, arrest, and blacklist workers and evict their families from their homes. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z Soon enough, it was time for bed and Ophie’s questions were still a hot coal, burning quietly in her brain. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z It was for the same reason, he said, that miners were often paid entirely with two-dollar bills, so that local merchants would realize how important the coal companies were to their businesses. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z I looked out over the town and saw the glimmering coals dim even further. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z She laid a dry pinon branch on the coals; smoke curled out of the gray scaly bark like woolly hair until yellow flames burst around it. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z “Good lord, firedamp in a coal mine,” my father said. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Pa’s story was a familiar one to any miner’s family: the coal dust ate up his lungs. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z If somebody used too much coal, he could end up outdoors. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z By this time Gale will have clocked in at the mines, taken the stomach-churning elevator ride into the depths of the earth, and be pounding away at a coal seam. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z I kneel in the pew and think of Quasimodo locked in the coal hole under the stairs and I wonder, Should I give him the shilling anyway for his career at the BBC? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “After school, bring in wood and coal for the fireplaces.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z I ran and dumped the bunches in a pile on the bare ground outside the yard fence, then hurried to bring a live coal from the fireplace to start them burning. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z The candle had burned out and the fire was down to coals. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z She could roast it over mopane coals with a little salt for flavoring. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The empty coal cars shrieked as the locomotive, perhaps a mile down the track, began to push them toward the waiting tipple. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z He shut the doors of the furnace and pulled the lever for coal; there was the same loud rattle of coal against the tin sides of the chute. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z First he melted the bits of lead in the big spoon held in the coals. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1962, a fire in a dump on the edge of town ignited a coal seam. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Among the ashes lay the metal spangle from the ballerina's dress; it had been burned as black as coal. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z From the exterior, it appears to be a coal train, or something similar. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z And why, oh why had he puffed away at that coal like an ignorant novice, when he had known for years exactly how to coax a flame into being? The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z He opened a huge dusty book and drew it to him and dipped a foul pen into an inkwell filled with what looked like coal dust. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Cain went still, and for a moment, she could have sworn his eyes glowed like coals. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z They’d taken everything with them except whatever black thing was skewered over the coals. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z All ships were steamships and these old steamers would take on hundreds and often thousands of tons of coal in one go. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Those were done in maester’s ink, made of soot and coal tar, but the message above was scrawled in brown in a huge, spiky hand. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z They did not have enough wood or coal to heat their homes. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z “I was born to lead men in the profession of mining coal. Maybe you were too.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The dismal name came from the bleak opportunities workers faced in the region, where iron, coal, and steel companies had busted unions for two decades. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z The horse clops along and when we get to the coal yard we feed and water him and give him a rubdown. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z The drippings popped on the coals in the trenches. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z He wanted to poke round in the coals to see, but dared not; he flinched from it even in thought. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z But that thought was useless because I knew the only thing to find around western Pennsylvania was a lump of coal. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z He leaned a bun against a rock near the coals to let it toast lightly, then wrapped it around the hot dog. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z Comparable economies of expression can be obtained by comparing the high safety index associated with nuclear power with the relatively low safety index for burning coal. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z With an aluminum factory, coal mines, and a large power plant, the town was perhaps accustomed to night-shift workers walking the streets at all hours. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z She was standing behind us, a slim-hipped beauty with velvety coal black hair, an open thermos and Styrofoam cup in her hand. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Following closely behind the woman, and picking up pieces of coal as they fell from the scuttle and placing them in a small plastic bag, was a half-naked, potbellied and thumb-sucking boy of about four. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z She knocked the coals aside with her bare hands, ignoring the searing pain in her fingers. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Every day Father and David would leave and return together, sometimes with morsels of food or a piece of coal. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z But it was cold in the kitchen, and she had to stir the fire up and put in some wood and coal. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z Replacements for the massive coal- and oil-burning wrecks that he and his crew worked to destroy all day long: gull-white sails, carbon-fiber hulls, and faster than anything except a maglev train. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Mam says, I don’t know, he’s only eleven and he had that typhoid and the coal dust wouldn’t be good for his eyes. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Seeing their fingers coming toward me I rolled away as a fumbled football rolls off the receiver's fingertips, back into the coals. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Has Werner ever seen snow this white, snow that was not fouled immediately with ash and coal dust? All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z One held what looked like a piece of black coal and a piece of white chalk, and where the two pieces were pressed together, an angry red flame burned outward in all directions. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z South, and James Watt’s 1769 invention of his steam engine to solve the problem of pumping water out of British coal mines. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Lyra, feeling raindrops on her face, woke up and protested, but Alice ignored her, pulling the coal silk over the hoops and fastening it as Malcolm instructed her. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Fujiko loaded coal into the potbellied stove and wiped her hands on her apron. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Sometimes a coal mother cooks him sausages or wraps biscuits in a napkin to take home to his sister. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Now and then she doused the coals and carved away the blackened bits with Uncle Kufa’s knife. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z She was going to die here, slowly, horribly on the coals. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z I remember 1 guy last year asked people to sign a petition about coal ash being dumped in rivers. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Interspersed in these residential areas were a variety of businesses — paint factories, lumberyards, distilleries, gasworks, mills, furniture manufacturers, warehouses, and coal distributors. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z He rose and knelt and blew at the coals and dragged up the burned board ends and got the fire going. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z She sent Mary Alice to the pump for pail after pail of water, and she sent me to the house for coal scuttles full of wood ash from the kitchen stove. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z I looked over my shoulder at the coal shed. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z The mother cat had gone into the coal shed to feed her kittens. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z I was tempted to go and deposit it at the door of the coal shed, but there was no leaving the house, my mother's orders. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Chanting a kind of litany to which the others responded, rubbing the dice as though they were two hot coals, he whispered to them. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z But we went through the wood awfully quickly, and while a coal fire burns hot, a wood fire doesn’t throw off much heat. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z One day Uri went off by himself and came back with a sack of coal. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z Company coal trucks made the rounds of the houses, stocking the coal boxes. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z "You never got a lump of coal in your life." Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z “For that bit of impertinence you may polish the coal stove tomorrow. This room is the perfect place for a noisy, I might say badly spoiled, little tyrant to have his sulks in private.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z My aunt ushered us out of that coal shed towards the big house. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z A committee assessing the condition of the coal mines. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z When the rain starts we cover ourselves with old coal bags and Mr. Hannon turns his pipe upside down in his mouth to keep the tobacco dry. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z At the back of the property was a shed where the coal bins were kept for the laundry fires for boiling the white clothes, a shed known to be haunted. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Their job was to load coal into two-ton ore cars and push them uphill on a narrow rail track to a staging area. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z I passed around the bottle of brand while the pig cooked over the fire, smoking and dripping fat onto the coals. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z He would fill that furnace as full of coal as it would get and make sure that Mary burned in a hurry. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Darts like hot coals went through my legs and arms and I howled more loudly still. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z The coal cars kept trundling past until a big black steam locomotive, puffing huge gouts of white smoke, finally appeared. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Peggy pulled a lever and there came a loud rattle of fine lumps of coal sliding down a metal chute. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z I brought out foot warmers filled with hot coals and heavy blankets to lay over the women for the air was crackling and cold. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Early this morning a large dog, a half-bred mastiff belonging to a coal merchant close to Tate Hill Pier, was found dead in the roadway opposite to its master’s yard. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z Some of them even had coal dirt on them, enough so I knew he had taken them inside with him. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z There was a time—before Pila—when the coal shed was just a coal shed. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z The fire had collapsed into a heap of smoldering coals. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z “The way Superman can squeeze a lump of coal so hard that it turns into a diamond?” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z Built his home and farmed his land, then dug for coal when the farming wasn't enough. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z All you need is paper, a few bits of coal or turf, and a match. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z His eyes were like smoldering coals as he held on to Junior. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Johnny worked fairly steadily, did not drink much and there was money for coal. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Shin and two other boys lifted Moon into an empty coal car and pushed it to the top of the mine. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z I remember how I promised Prim that I really would try to win and I feel like a ton of coal has dropped on me. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Trina seemed disoriented, but Mark didn’t relent, half dragging her to the other side of the dead coals of their fire from earlier that night. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Frankie was the first outlaw till we went raiding for coal all over Limerick. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z The coal miners are “completely black when they come out of the dark mines into the daylight again, they look just like chimney-sweeps.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z He leaned to the fire and blew on the coals and he put on more wood and rose and walked away from the camp as far as the light would carry him. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z I always got up before they did to get water and live coals from the cookhouse to start Kevin’s fire. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z A puddle of coal mud swirled about his feet. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The road out of town led past the coal mine, and Jack blew the bus horn at the tipple. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The house was always overheated, as if Hoede were under obligation to burn coal, but Joost wasn’t going to be the one to mention it. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Kids were bused in from way up in the hollows and from coal camps such as Davy and Hemphill that were too small to have their own high school. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z The more prosperous families had coal sheds; the poorer ones left their coal in a pile out front. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Summer cooled to the final autumn, and when the leaves blew yellow past the windowsill and the air smelled like coal smoke, Izio reached out and held my hand in the dark. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z A huge red bed of coals blazed and quivered with molten fury. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z A tense peace lasted five weeks until an argument broke out between deputies and striking coal miners. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z In no time, I have the rabbits and squirrel roasting, the roots, wrapped in leaves, baking in the coals. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z The fire was little more than coals and it gave no light and the wood was nearly gone and the trees were falling all about them in the blackness. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z “He does odd jobs. And he’s an entrepreneur. He’s developing a technology to burn low-grade bituminous coal safely and efficiently.” The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Her eyes were blazing like live coals and her arms had doubled themselves in length. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The lance corporal looks around the room—the coal stove, the hanging laundry, the undersize children—with equal measures of condescension and hostility. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z "And I said, `A coal miner? Why did she want a coal miner if she could've had you?' And he said, `Because when he sings . . . even the birds stop to listen.'" The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z I did what she asked, then returned to the kitchen, dumped the coals in the hearth, and crept under my own blanket. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z “Beatrice gave you some books, did she? Rather like taking coals to Newcastle, wasn’t it? There are so many books in the library at Manderley.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z “Sure, got a nice stove, burns coal or wood.” Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Somewhere above him, the voice of a young man starts speaking in French about coal. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The serpent resolved itself into a neck and tail, and then the dragon’s long homed head appeared, his eyes glowing in the dark like golden coals. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Pecola opened her eyes and lay staring at the dead coal stove. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Dad says, You shouldn’t be picking up coal off the road like a common beggar. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Of course you have burned a man’s property—barn, farm implements, hay, and grain; you have polluted his well with coal oil and terrified his family. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z Malachy makes faces at them and wants to throw coal at them but I tell him if he throws coal there’s less for the pig and we’ll never get our dinner. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z The coal cars began to roll and the noise lowered to a deep rumble. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z He pulled the lever, hearing the rattle of coal against tin and seeing the quivering embers grow black. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z They had banked the fire well and the coals would last until morning. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z After several minutes of snuffing and rolling, the draccus came back to the flat bed of coals that was all that remained of our fire. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Ugwu wondered if she, too, could feel the coal tar getting hotter underneath, through her thin soles. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z When the weather turns bitter and I go to work in the snow and Helena struggles up the hill with the food bags and there’s just not money to buy enough coal. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z The process was messy, like pitching coal onto a moving train. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z Moon Girl reached into the flame, quickly turning the log deeper into the coals. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z “Our daddies dug coal out with picks, Homer,” Mr. Dubonnet said, back to being calm again. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The book said it was like an ember, or a tiny piece of glowing coal. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z News of Fannie’s leadership in the garment workers’ union reached coal miners in Colliers, West Virginia, and she was asked to visit. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z We built a roaring fire and propped the can up over the coals. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He tipped over the barbecue, and coals spilled everywhere. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z He swore as the coal streaked black on the lapel. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z In the reflection of the glowing coals, I could see that one was sitting up. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z We find bits of coal and turf stuck in cracks on the road and in the walls of the coal yards. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Clouds of coal dust rose from the open cars, invading everything, seeping through windows and creeping under doors. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z It’s real coal and not bits from the Dock Road and if we can’t carry it we can drag it along the ground. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Tending to the coal miners, healing the sick and wounded, had fulfilled him, too. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Mom said she was sorry, but there was no room in our budget for coal. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Women were out on their front porches with their mops and buckets, waging their never-ending battle against the coal dust. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z At the doorway she paused long enough to say to her son, “Get up from there anyhow. I need some coal.” The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z If we had a piece of coal burning in the oven, he would sit in front of it and warm his hands, with one of his pipes dangling from his mouth. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Eastern Pennsylvania sits on one of the richest coal beds on earth. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Killian, a coal miner who moonlights as an emergency medical technician for the Healy Volunteer Fire Department, had a two- way radio on the Argo. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z She fed some wood chips to the brazier on the afterdeck, stirred the coals with a blackened blade, and began to knead the dough for the morning biscuits. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z We fought through the hearth, kicking up coals and sparks. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z The ladies of the night beckon to anyone passing, their eyes like fading coals. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z She tells us take off all our clothes and she washes the coal off our hands and faces. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z The boy looked up with sick eyes, eyes soft and black like pieces of coal. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Tiring of field and flock, in 1768 he moved to Edinburgh, where he founded a successful business producing sal ammoniac from coal soot, and busied himself with various scientific pursuits. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z At my question about them, Dad said they were “dusting”: spreading rock dust around to hold down the explosive mixture of coal dust and air. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z In the evening she harvested small birds, which she gutted, wrapped in clay, and baked in coals. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z It was her job to keep smoothing and arranging the coals into an even bed for baking the meat, but Tallow’s eyes on her back made her itch. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z The coals under the ashes on the dark hearth she fanned to life until a cheerful fire was burning. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z When the flames had reduced to coals, he placed a bent coat hanger over the top as a grill and set a pan on to heat. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The flames had dimmed, and in most places had subsided to sullen coals. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z He watched Sam Gardiner bring out a can of coal oil for another customer and guard against the possibility of the oil’s splashing out by fixing a lump of gumdrop candy over the spout. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z Bulldozers had flattened millions of tons of coal tailings to create a black desert that stretched far down the narrow valley. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z He tells Mam the coal yards are closed and we’ll have to drink milk and eat bread tonight, but when I tell her about the women on the road she passes Eugene to him. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z I thanked Basil and hung a shallow metal pan above the coals and dropped two of the candles in to melt. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z We sat quietly as the coals glowed in confusion beneath the new log. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z She couldn’t stop seeing those bodies, the angry red flesh peeking through their burnt black casings like banked coals. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Like most houses in Welch, these were heated by coal. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Chicago seemed an unreal city whose mythical houses were built of slabs of black coal wreathed in palls of gray smoke, houses whose foundations were sinking slowly into the dank prairie. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z I spotted Auk IV lying forlornly in the coal dust beside the railroad track. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z One year, our tributes were stark naked and covered in black powder to represent coal dust. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z The women cooked with clay stoves fueled by coal, and the camp always smelled of fire and smoke. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z She watched until the coals had turned to ashes. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “He’s developing a technology to burn low-grade bituminous coal more efficiently.” The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z So instead, Yan Chang and I roasted chestnuts on top of the little coal stove. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z He grasped the scuttle on the hearth and rattled an avalanche of coal on the fire. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z His life is as dark as an unlit coal mine; he’s trapped in the prison of his own fear, anger, agony, despair. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The stores, the signs, the sidewalks, the cars were all covered with a film of black coal dust, giving the town an almost monochromatic look, like an old hand-tinted photograph. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Hestia held out her hands, and the coals glowed. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z He said he took her into Hopkins, they started doing treatments, then her stomach turned black as coal and she died. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z His eyes are bright as coals, his hatred a living thing, shimmering in the air between us like the air above black rocks on a blazing summer day. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I offered, “I could hold the tongs and coal.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Someone lighted coal in a barbecue and soon the smell of garlic and morgh kabob flooded my senses. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I showed him how to put one foot up on the fire circle rocks and lean in to stick the hot dogs over the coals. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z It was still morning, so she kindled a fire from the pot of coals and roasted yams while she thought. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He’s up and down on that float all day hoisting bags of coal and turf, desperate to keep the bandages in place on his legs so the dirt won’t get into the open sores. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z The Vapostori sang and prayed until the flames died down to coals. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “What stocks did you buy—coal and steel?” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z They had decided to use the kotatsu only for dinner, as they were running low on coal. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z He takes me with him but it’s dark and all the coal yards are closed. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “It a deadly gas which comes from burnt coals.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Eventually black workers moved up to the boiler room, where they shoveled coal into a blazing furnace. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z ‘That is not wholly true. Mr. Singer contributed a check for twelve dollars to be used for coal. And I have invited him to be present today.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Tayo watched a red flame crawl out from under the white coals; he reached down for a piece of juniper and tossed it in. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Ye are to tell the world there isn’t a scrap of food in this house, not a lump of coal to start the fire, not a drop of milk for the baby’s bottle. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z The other women are gone from the Dock Road and we search for the bits of coal that drop from lorries. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Alphie is back in the pram with the three old coats and coal and wood for the fire. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Comforting sounds of work and activity, the air tanged with the coal reek of smelters and the salt fresh breeze coming off the water. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z It breaks Mr. Hannon’s heart to think of you dragging bags of coal off a float and it breaks your mother’s heart and ’twill destroy your eyes. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z And if I worked hard, eventually we could move to one of those idyllic little villages nestled up alongside Lake Michigan, unsullied by the coal smoke. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z “You going to get your drunk self out of that bed and get me some coal or not?” The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Both nights, I lay there, watching the eyes of the shifting wolves glow like live mesquite coals in the firelight, and listening to the weak moaning bawl of old Spot still traveling in a circle. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z The wheel struck flat, with Encanis on top.There was an explosion of spark and ash as it landed and sank inches deep into the hot coals. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Those memories, they are the coals that shield my heart from frost. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z The shapes of the small tree-limbs burning incandescent orange in the coals. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z He was given more of the coal solution. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z I've just placed the first lot over the coals when I hear the twig snap. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Alice reached up to pull the coal silk back towards herself, and then he could see a lot better. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z When, on a day after a trip to collect coal, I cough once, loudly, through bronchial tubes already packed tight with phlegm, my mother frowns. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z The demon thrashed against his bonds, settling the wheel more firmly into the coals. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The blurred red glow at ankle level was the coal fire of the double range whose door was kicked shut just then with a great clang and an irritable shout. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z He pulled the lever and coal rattled against the sides of the tin chute and he saw the whole furnace blaze and the draft roared still louder. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z The grill was balanced between two big sandrocks, where the hot coals were banked under the spattering meat. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z They want to know if there are any other good jobs going in the coal yards and would I put in a good word for them. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z That argument goes on today as, for example, we debate how closely to regulate coal mining. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Which is why our miners have to dig so deep Somehow it all comes back to coal at school. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z She chopped up old termite mounds and used the clay to make pots, firing them in heaps of coals. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Most of the time he just sat in the back yard or in the coal house by himself. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z The image of the njuzu lifting the coal came to her mind. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Sick at heart, Ranofer transferred his sweepings to a crucible and set it on the coals. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z She’d sit in the kitchen next to the coal stove, bundled up in long skirts and head scarves, blankets over her shoulders. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z The man lay down on the coal tar. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z His face bore little resemblance to the one on the Wall of Fame, with little webbed feet around a pair of eyes that looked like brittle coals. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The soles of his bare feet looked as black as barbecue coals. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z They spent their days breathing in toxic coal dust and asbestos, which they brought home to their wives and daughters, who inhaled it while shaking the men’s clothes out for the wash. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z It was made of roah, a rare, heavy wood, dark as coal and smooth as polished glass. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z But he overslept often and several times the fire went out and someone had to be sent to the neighbor’s for live coals. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z In the center of the bedroom, for the even distribution of heat, stood a coal stove. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Every five years, all the houses in Coalwood were painted a company white, which the blowing coal soon tinged gray. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The coals still glimmered in places, giving me enough light to see the great beast roll around, flip. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z There will be tea, sugar, flour, milk, butter and a separate docket for a bag of coal from Sutton’s coal yard on the Dock Road. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z But the Dreamers have improved themselves, and the damming of seas for voltage, the extraction of coal, the transmuting of oil into food, have enabled an expansion in plunder with no known precedent. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z He shut off the coal and stooped and opened the bottom door of the furnace. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z The day I wandered into the coal shed looking for trouble I had the drum on my hip and two little dowels for drumsticks. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z He had a black mustache that curved around the sides of his mouth and coal grime under his fingernails. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z On the ground were bears and mountain lions and rattlesnakes; in the treetops, an astonishing array of squirrels; and beneath the soil, one thick seam after another of coal. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z “They say it will save on coal,” I said. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z A barge sounds its outcast horn and coal cars trundle to and fro and the regular thudding of the hauling machine reverberates through the gloom. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z In May, the company announced that its big new coal-preparation plant in Caretta was complete, and all the coal from both the Coalwood and Caretta mines would henceforth be loaded into coal cars over there. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z A month ago, the Capitol’s firebombs obliterated the poor coal miners’ houses in the Seam, the shops in the town, even the Justice Building. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Blacker than coal, blacker than jet, blacker than a raven’s wing. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z With a secret glee, Lyra hurried there behind the nurse and retrieved her proper furs and leggings and boots, and pulled them on quickly while the nurse dressed herself in coal silk. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z There was compressed but stable dynamite cleverly camouflaged with plastic and painted black so it looked like a lump of coal. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z In front of it all, we put two scuttles of dusty coal and a faded half-furled Confederate flag, saved last year when Cold Sassy’s old wooden schoolhouse burned down. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Some “nippers” crawled into crannies to chip away the coal. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z The grandson of a coal miner, he takes pride, he says, in having moved up to become a supermarket buyer. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Then, with a gasp I can’t contain, I shift my hand forward, and my blood sizzles on the coals. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z The draccus bounded off the bed of coals, looking for all the world like a frisking puppy. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z She was filling her bucket from the coal heap on the other side of the roof. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Wistfully, he gazed at the edge of the blade resting on the white skin; the gleaming metal reflected the tremulous fury of the coals. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z When the barn was burned to a pile of glowing coals, the men asked Jethro to draw water from the stock well to throw around the edges of the coals. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z This means that coming from District 12, Peeta and I will be in some kind of coal miner's getup. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Wayne continued, “Well, that field’s full of lignite. Lignite is, like, one step before coal. There’s hundreds of miles of it under here.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z When the coal supplier unloaded his baskets on the roof, we advised her to smile and make a comment about the weather. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z The baby’s eyes were black as coal, without a glint of light in them. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Days would pass at the beach without Dad saying anything about the coal mine. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The sheriff and local judges enforced the law only when it suited the coal companies. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z That we weren’t just shut-down old coal mines and people on welfare like the rest of the country wanted to believe we were. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z “You can use the coal chute to slide into the millionaire’s mansion at the end,” said Akimi. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z Compared to Maxwell Street, the Prairie Avenue District seemed as though it belonged to a different place and time, untouched by the coal smoke and ruin. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z A national recession was under way, steel orders were reduced, and Coalwood was producing more coal than the steel company needed. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z During World War II, many Coalwood miners, including my father, were exempted from service because of the need for coal in the war effort. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z In the next barrel, coal bricks at the quarter mark, then dregs of coal bricks. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z We kicked the snow away to find a pair of wooden doors set into the bricks, like the entrance to a coal cellar. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z The fire was nothing more than a few coals smouldering in the bottom of the hole where the roots had been. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The coal company owned them body and soul. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z It was taking shape more rapidly now that she used burning coals to hollow it out. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Built to burn coal and also to take advantage of wind. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z There was the clank of cooking, and the mineral smell of coal smoke. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z We have eggs, buttered toast, and a glass of milk each for dinner; there’s a small sack of coal in the corner, and magazine cuttings pinned all over the wall. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z And that sound was a hiss, like a sting or the sizzle of water on coals. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z “Dear guests, I would like to say a few words. Energy is the force of life. Tomsk has oil, coal.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z One moment I believed, I was dedicated, willing to lie on the blazing coals, do anything to attain a position on the campus—then snap! Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z “You know a lot more about coal mining than he does.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “Yes. Did you have any similar backups in coal production this year?” he asks. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z It was dying now, not much more than a bed of coals. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z One was the color of toasted bread and the other was the color of coal. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Their eyes glowed red as hot coals in a brazier. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z They looked as though they had been putting lumps of coal on the fire all day long. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z I watched the child obey, her long gown hanging dangerously near hot coals. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Kirk made a run to the track to unload his shuttle into a waiting coal car. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “Your mouth is all black. You look like a kid that’s been playing in the coal bin.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “It’s buried a hundred and fifty feet underground. Maybe I’ll start working triple shifts. Then I can buy a piece of that coal vein and somebody might have a little leverage against Devlin.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z They brought the soapstones in to hotten by the mill’s coal stove and loaded up the sled with bolts of cloth wrapped in brown paper. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z My socks were always black with coal dirt when I took my shoes off at night. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z It was a poor year, that one—too poor for them to buy the extra coal for the front room stove. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I could not hear him because of the noise of the crowd and the crackling coals and the beat of my heart in my ears. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Our classes were often interrupted by the rumble of coal cars and the moans of steam locomotives going past. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z He smelt the scent of coal and ashes and heard fire roaring. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z But the draft did not roar and the coal did not blaze. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z It made sense they told each other, to set up their shipbroking business in one of the great coaling ports of Europe. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z The mine had a lot of the solvent derived from coal tar, but it was too volatile. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The destruction of Britain’s forests has been suggested as the reason behind its early lead in developing coal technology, but why didn’t deforestation have the same effect in China? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He thrust half a dozen torches into the brazier’s glowing coals and watched the oiled rags flare up. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Threads of smoke floated up from a filterless cigarette whose coal burned dangerously near his fingertips. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z I have gotten used to the tan color of my own hands and arms, but I have seen pictures of coal miners who work all day underground. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z "And what do we do with coal? We burn it," says Cinna. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Now, invulnerable, I was as solitary as one live tree in a vast landscape of coal. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z He swung out over the coals and started to climb. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z When the wind came through and cleared away the haze of coal smoke that hung over the city, she could even make out a blue pocket of harbor. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z And so it was that by the time of my drum, the coal shed was haunted. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Over the smoky greenwood coals, long sticks splayed out the two hogs. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z He watched them drag him into the light from the coals. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The only thing would hush her, he always said, was for him to beat the coal scuttle with a poke and sing ‘Dixie.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z She swung her free arm, and it met with a shadowy face with burning coals for eyes. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z But I do tell her I have to stop by the coal merchant’s to buy a few kilos for the stove. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Nhamo filled one of the pots with live coals and perched it in a pool of water at the bottom of the boat. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The coal company and the strikers finally reached an agreement. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z The little man stirred the coals again and blew on them to make them bum brighter. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Before World War II the factory made heavy cotton pants and shirts for farmers and coal miners. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z In the center were three huge kettles, each four feet tall, hung over beds of hot coals. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z They stir until it seems all the wood, coals, and twigs are wet. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z She prodded the coals with the tip of a stick. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z I wrapped the mussels in leaves and sort of steamed them in coals. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z “The one who used to sell coal. You know, out by the Ranchitos Bar.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Francie liked to sit there and enjoy the warmth and watch the orange and blue flames dancing an inch above the bed of small black coals. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Still, coal miners in the Allegheny and Kiskiminetas river valleys, a region rich with natural resources, seemed stuck in poverty. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z They flew into their husbands, oblivious to the greasy coal smearing their clothes. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z It hovers above me, coal black eyes bulge out of its sockets, and large, flat nostrils flare from his fat, furry face. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Nicolas insisted he could walk barefoot on a bed of coals, but each time he announced a demonstration, Clara had an asthma attack and he was forced to stop. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z We sat around the campfire until it was nothing but coals. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z “We piled them up like they were logs, over two hundred, arms and legs sticking out. And we piled brush on top and poured coal oil on.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The air was windless and smelled like burning coal. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z One’s hair snow white, the other’s dyed coal black. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The chariot rides—in which the District 12 kids are dressed in awful coal miners’ outfits—and the interviews flash by. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z I found a piece here, a piece there, but it was mostly coal dust. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z About the compound yard were strewn empty beer cartons and bottles, papers, rotting porridge, rags, overturned trash cans, overturned nightsoil buckets, ash from burnt peat and coal. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z She heard the hiss as it struck the coals below. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Soon, Nokomis came out and took over, poking the coals this way and that to evenly set them. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z Our part of District 12, nicknamed the Seam, is usually crawling with coal miners heading out to the morning shift at this hour. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z “Then make it. Please. And put in two spoonfuls of sugar. And you can throw a lump of coal in the fire, too.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Not until the next time I saw Max, going to the coal yards with the other men. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z I had known it all along, that it was a good-bye party, but now I felt the truth sink down into my stomach like a pile of coal. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z He pulled the lever for more coal, then went to his room. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z As I was saying, the coal shed was haunted. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Our battles were real and bloody; we threw rocks, cinders, coal, sticks, pieces of iron, and broken bottles, and while we threw them we longed for even deadlier weapons. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “Seems the coal vein took a turn it shouldn’t have and now it’s going the wrong way. I think the geologist is about to get the boot.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z I put out the candle and fell asleep when the fire turned to coals. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z I felt almost as cold in the house; while we had the coal stove, we had no coal. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Far below, she saw the red glow of the coals, but it was what she saw on her feet that shocked her heart into a panicked gallop. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z He took the sack of coal and led me into the house. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z Workers were paid by the ton, which both encouraged them to hack out coal with reckless haste and meant that any labor they expended making their environment safer or more comfortable went uncompensated. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z The maid gave him a shovelful of coals. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Like the oblong mound of fresh clay of a newly made grave, the red coals revealed the bent outline of Mary’s body. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z A ton of coal, which would last most of the winter, cost about fifty dollars—including delivery—or even as little as thirty dollars for the lower-grade stuff. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Hrothulf had hair as black as coal and hazel eyes that never blinked. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z He dragged me out of sight into an alley and dropped me like a sack of coal. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z Finally, my mother said, in a whisper, “That’s what nearly killed you, children,” pointing at the coals from the spilled brazier, from which puffs of smoke coiled upward as raindrops fell on them. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The road through Welch, Dad told us, led only farther up into the wet, forbidding mountains and on to other dying coal towns. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z We dart out of the coal yard with barely a word and walk fast down the sidewalk. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Sitting like a starved and threadbare buddha, staring into the coals. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z By the late innings of the game the rest of the room—a few laggard coals glowed orange beneath the fireplace grate—lay sleeping in soft, quiescent shadows. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z He pointed at the bag of coal in my hand. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z He smells of steel and coal and forge. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Each one contains a substance that represents each faction: gray stones for Abnegation, water for Erudite, earth for Amity, lit coals for Dauntless, and glass for Candor. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Faint deep coals of the driftwood fire pulsing in the onshore wind. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z The Coalwood tipple would no longer lift coal out of the mine, and no more trains would go chugging through town or spewing dust off the coal cars. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The past ten years had padded the curves of her hips some, and combed into her coal black hair a few streaks of cinder gray. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Burnham treasured beauty but saw none for miles and miles and miles, just coal, rust, and smoke in endless repetition until the train entered the prairie and everything seemed to go quiet. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z For a satisfying noise, nothing beat going up on the Coalwood School bridge and throwing pop bottles into the empty coal cars rolling in to the tipple. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “She can sense things before anyone else. Like a canary in one of your coal mines.” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Cradling the egg with both hands, she carried it to the fire and pushed it down amongst the burning coals. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The heads are the heads of snowmen, with the coal eyes and the carrot noses fallen out. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Harry watched the goblin on their right weighing a pile of rubies as big as glowing coals. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z The flames had died in the early morning, leaving a deep bed of sullen coals that glimmered when the wind brushed them. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Men are walking or cycling toward the coal yards and Rank’s Flour Mills and the Limerick Steamship Company on the Dock Road. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z He listened to Knife and Fist kick dirt over the coals. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z In the middle of it all, deep in the center of my chest, a piece of me burned in anger like a forge coal fanned red and hot. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z In the burning of coal and oil and gasoline, we are also putting sulfuric acid into the atmosphere. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z If the rent for this room is five shillings a week we’ll have fourteen shillings for food and clothes and coal to boil the water for the tea. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z She dumped the coals on kindling, and picking up the bellows, puffed air on the coals—gently at first—then harder. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Would there be coal enough to burn the body? Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z The old man laid the panga on the hot coals. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Inside the furnace he saw the coal beginning to smoke; there were faint wisps of white smoke at first, then the smoke drew dark, bulging out. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Ma opened the front of the cookstove and raked hot coals out into the iron hearth. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z She gives Dad the docket for the coal down the Dock Road. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Another month later, drenched in rock dust and sweat, his section punched through the header into the softest, blackest, purest coal anyone had ever seen. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Lockton and Madam were exchanging heated words across his desk by the time I bought in an armload of wood and a few coals from the kitchen in the copper coal carrier. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z “We shared our coal, gave her a place to sleep. How could she betray us this way?” a third wanted to know. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Tayo poked a stick into the coals and watched them lose shape and collapse into white ash. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z While the coast was clear, I decided to re-enter the coal shed and tell Schwarz of our plan for next Thursday. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z One day Mars Bar would lead Maniac down the river, down the tracks, past the railroad gondolas, each with its mountain of coal, to the rolling mill at the steel plant where his father worked. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he picked up the spear and the bow and trotted back around the lake to his shelter, where the fire had burned down to glowing coals. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z I quick added logs and blew on the coals until small flames jumped up and bit into the wood. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Back in my rooms I lit the coal fire, knowing there was no chance that the sight of my breath would disappear before I was ready for bed. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z The Pocahontas Industrial Council for Education was the sponsoring organization, a committee created by the businesses in Welch and some of the larger coal mines. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z In the cool damp, he picked up at once the unnatural smells of metal, coal smoke and oil. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z If you’re too grand to pick coal off the road I’ll put on my coat and go down the Dock Road. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Later, the Captain stopped all the hand digging and brought in giant machines, called continuous miners, to tear the coal from its seams. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z At night Pa banked it with ashes to keep the coals alive till morning. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z The sores are red and yellow and clogged with coal dust. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z She stayed in the yard, smoking her little pipe, while they made a fire outside to roast the meat over the coals. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z Possibly she meant coal turns to diamonds, but that's untrue, too. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z The fire had burned down and looked out but he stirred with a piece of wood and found a bed of coals still glowing hot and red. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z We were walking along Little Hobart Street, picking up pieces of coal, when our neighbors the Noes drove by in their station wagon. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z "Everyone has their reservations, naturally. You being from the coal district. But I said, and this was very clever of me, I said, `Well, if you put enough pressure on coal it turns to pearls!'" The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z The day before the lighting, they dug a big hole in back of the store and filled it full of oak wood and burned it down to a glowing bed of coals. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z I understand that the factory is not working at capacity currently, and I did observe that only one of these devices was operating, burning coal and what looked like one of the cutting tables. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Granddaddy murmured to me, “Do you realize what this means, Calpurnia? The days of whale oil and coal dust are over. The old century is dying, even as we watch. Remember this day.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z I sat by the glowing coals in the kitchen hearth and read until I could hold my eyes open no longer. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z I think of orthopedic shoes, lisle stockings, underwear laundered thin and gray, coal cellars. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z They are obscured only at the bottom, so it is impossible to tell what is burning, if it is wood or coal or something else entirely. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z A servant had already put tea and sweet cakes on the table and was now lighting the houlu, a small stove for burning coal. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z It really is a whole pig cooking inside a huge metal box covered with a sheet full of coals. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z I walked in, looked over the brim of the coal barrel. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z The red coal from the firewood lit our faces in the dark and wisps of smoke continuously rose toward the sky. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z The yams, some bubbling with syrup, lay on a wire rack above glowing coals that leaped to low blue flame when struck by the draft of air. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z There isn’t enough coal to cook the dinner, the water isn’t boiling anymore and she says she’s demented with worry. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z That’s more people than work in coal, oil, and natural gas combined. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z He seized the brazier with his offhand and flipped it, scattering embers and hot coals at Selmy’s feet. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He stowed the paper and string, shoved some driftwood into the stove, and blew on the lazy coals until they glowed. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z The man’s hand reached out and opened the door; a feeble red glare lit the man’s face as he stooped and looked inside at the bed of smoldering coals. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Kronos’s scythe had liquefied into molten metal and was trickling into the coals of the hearth, which now glowed like a blacksmith’s furnace. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z The fire was never allowed to completely die, and it took only a moment to blow the coals into flame. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Mom’s family did not share her aversion to coal mining. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z And then I notice that the coal merchant has a watch on. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z The man says he’s been serving drink for twenty-seven years and nobody ever asked him for coal before. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Here and there the carpets had begun to smolder where some of the scattered coals had fallen. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The colors rise and fall, shift and blend, in exactly the way the coals do. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Unsure of what to do but knowing if I stayed there debating my options, the mother cat might well come and blind me, I left the coal shack and lingered about the yard. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z The Princeton boys, though, found it inconvenient to row among the coal barges and recreational vessels that also made use of the canal, so they got Andrew Carnegie to build them a private lake. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z They have the mystery of ferns that disappeared a million years ago into the coal of the carboniferous era. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z "Do you get all the coal you want?" The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z “If the air stops circulating, methane will seep out of the coal and build up,” Dad said. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z She set them in a pit in the middle of the fire and heaped live coals around the balled mound of mud. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z You could always tell how much you’d danced at the Dugout if you pulled off your socks that night and looked at the black ring around your ankles from the coal dirt. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Take down the Pope and hide him in the coal hole under the stairs where he won’t be seen and he’ll be out of harm’s way. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z One time, right before she burned the trash in a coal barrel in the yard, I found a page all crumpled up. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z He put die three fish on the board, pushed sharpened pegs through their tails into cracks on the cooking board, and propped it next to the reddest part of the coals. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z One day Mr. Lapham called to him and led him to a bench under the old willow behind the coal house. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z We walked to school around walls of bricks and breathed the coal dust for one discouraging winter. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly, there was a little stirring, a whimper, a little pink mouth opened in a yawn; so pink and moist was that mouth it seemed impossible in a coal barrel. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z After dinner, they made sure all the coals were burned out before they washed up and went to sleep. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Next came a dragon-shaped coal scuttle that glowed gold and orange. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Explosions tear and scar the land, spitting out black oaks and coal mines, street lamps and scorpions. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z It was coal black inside the store, but I knew the shelf where Mr. Klein kept the matches, and also where he kept the candles. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z He was stumbling for words, but it was pouring out of him in hot clumps out of the back of the brain, the words like falling coals, and Fremantle stared openmouthed. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z But now that Gale has gone to work in the coal mines—and I have nothing to do all day—I’ve taken over the job. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z I passed the washing machine and furnace and entered the old coal bin which was no longer used. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z He pulled the lever for still more coal. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z For the payment of the coal, she left a note together with some money under the dresser scarf. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Papito didn’t say anything, just sat on the stool, staring at the hot coals with his stony expression. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z There, you can run for miles along yellow prairie and never see a car, and at night, it’s pitch-black as a coal mine. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Mixed with air in proper proportions, methane becomes the dreaded “fire damp” of coal mines. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z "He said, `See that little girl? I wanted to marry her mother, but she ran off with a coal miner,'" Peeta says. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Soon the coals in the brazier were dying, and suddenly the room was cold. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z Grown-ups talk in tired, edgy voices about Zick’s Coal Company and take us along in the evening to the railroad tracks where we fill burlap sacks with the tiny pieces of coal lying about. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z “No one cares about digging coal anymore,” she said. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z When it saw Jorah, it raised its head and looked at him with eyes as red as coals. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z I tore the book into several pieces and threw it onto the hot coals in his fireplace. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z The wind came suddenly and fanned the coals into yellow flames; Leroy jumped back and stumbled hard against Pinkie. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z “Even the union can’t put the coal back in the ground.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z There was another coal stove, a bed, a pullout couch where Mom and Dad could sleep, and a chest of drawers painted fire-engine red. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z The cold days dragged mechanically: up early and to my job, splitting wood, carrying coal, sweeping floors, then off to school and boredom. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z He woke toward the morning with the fire down to coals and walked out to the road. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z “Eomma taught me how to use the yeontan,” she said as she pointed to the cylindrical coal briquettes piled up against the outside of the house. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Soon the raft ascended into a thick cloud that smelled like wet coals. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z I watched him cleaning his master’s woolen coat; he was wrapping wet scraps of brown paper about hot coals, and, with a tongs, dousing grease spots with the steaming paper. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z It was winter and I would buy a dime’s worth of coal each morning from the corner coalyard and lug it home in paper bags. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z He came to a farmhouse, forced open a basement window, and hid in the coal bin for two days. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Behind the dense sandstone of the header, the Captain believed, was a vast, undiscovered coal seam. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Baachan owned an iron that you filled with hot coals from the stove. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z All the while, Garvey patiently turned the hot dog over the coals, careful not to burn it. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z The fire makes the room warm and with the flames dancing in the coal you can see faces and mountains and valleys and animals leaping. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Now Rita and Tendai Fired up the old coal stove in the kitchen, cut grubs out of the guavas and boiled the squash. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Then he went outside to the little backyard with the coal house, the privy, and the old willow. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I know the chariot ride will require Peeta and me to be dressed in something coal related. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Far below, he saw the incinerator coals, banked but still pulsing with an angry red glow. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Its editors, rewrite men, and typesetters would compose “extra” editions as firemen shoveled coal into the boilers of the paper’s steam-driven presses. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z I wait at the gate of the coal yard and watch him cycle toward me, slower than ever. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z He picked up a fork and tried to stab a piece of brisket, but the plate skittered down die table and flew off the end, straight into the coals of the brazier. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z He put the coal on according to a system. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z JimmyTrotter cranked the handle to the spit and the deer turned around and around under a pit of burning coals. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z They don’t know I spent the day delivering hundredweights of coal and turf. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z I’m in a dress of the exact design of my wedding dress, only it’s the color of coal and made of tiny feathers. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z His eyes burned like a thousand red-hot coals, and if looks could kill....What am I saying? Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Queenie walked purposefully to the cheerful coal fire and knelt, rubbing her hands together. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z He had vague notions of struggling to learn his letters while he worked in the coal mine, every day a battle to survive the dangerous work. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z Someone had replaced the glass in the upper part of the window with plywood, and wrapped tinfoil around the opening to keep the coal smoke from leaking into the room. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z In the evening he opened a can of soup and set it in the coals and he ate and watched the darkness come up. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z She sets down her coal and starts searching through her purse. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Maybe she wants to see me sweat coal tar, ink, shoe polish, graphite. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z As they approached the target area under cover of darkness, there was nothing to light their way but the smoldering glow of burning coal mines. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z At the same time the wind tore at the fire and sprayed red coals and sparks in a cloud around him. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z The fair, according to one later appraisal, was a more dangerous place to work than a coal mine. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z I knew he’d take another shower when he got home to scrub more coal off. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z I arranged the wood so that it would not catch quickly, set the hot coals underneath it, leaned forward, and blew gently. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z A big dump truck soon appeared, loaded with coal. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z For instance, he was working on a technology to burn coal more efficiently, so that even the lowest-grade coal could be mined and sold. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Jaysus, says the barman, look at that, two lumps of coal and a snowball. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z The coal dust that collected in the moist skin around his eyes would remain—the miners of Coalwood walked around with their eyes lined like Cleopatra’s. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z She put some more coals on the iron stove, hoping it would stop her trembling, but the cold was in her bones, not just her flesh. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “I have enough food for several days, so I can stay by the boat for a while. The work is going quickly now that I’m using hot coals.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The eyebrows were shaggy and tilted and the eyes were dark as coal so that he seemed very sad. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Well, a bit less coal and a little earlier to bed would take care of that. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z She faced the attacker in a kind of instantaneous flash and saw the disconsolate eyes, which remained stamped on her heart like the hot coals of pity. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z When we’re back home it takes a while to dig Alphie out from under the load of coal and turf and he won’t stop screaming till I give him bread and marmalade. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z The coal dust makes everything look especially ugly. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z He stood in the darkened basement with the trunk upon his back and listened to the roaring draft of the furnace and saw the coals burning red through the cracks. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z He writes: Most likely at least one adult — probably a coal miner from Poland, Czechoslovakia, or Italy — brought the virus to Limburg. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Expressionless, motionless, he sat until there was nothing left but grey ash and dully glowing coals. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z It had long been known that the Earth radiated appreciable amounts of heat–that was apparent to anyone who went down a coal mine–but there wasn’t any way of estimating the rate of dissipation. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z For one lively half century Pennsylvania had a virtual monopoly on one of the most valuable products in the world, oil, and an overwhelmingly dominant role in the production of a second, coal. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Valerie hurried back to the coals and waited until Max joined her. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z There are two men filling bags with coal and turf and weighing them on the great iron scale, a hundredweight in each bag. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z He went to the fireplace, touched a taper to a live coal, and lit the pipe. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z He pointed at the coffeepot in the sand at the edge of the coals, and then at the meat. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The same puff of wind that had blown it away stirred the coals in the fire. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The city was noisy and dirty, the weather murky, the air often polluted with a yellow smog from the new factories and from all the fireplaces burning dirty coal. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z No food, no coal, everyone forbidden to leave their homes. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z They are common injuries in the Seam where we cook and heat our homes with coal. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z On average, a man died in the mines every day, often crushed by coal cars or killed by explosions. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z I’m black because I work at the Limerick Gas Works shoveling coal and coke into the furnaces. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z But when the numbing medicine wore off later that night, it felt like someone had pressed a red hot coal to my loins. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z He’d laid it on the edge of the pool table and the coal had burned down to the wood; a charred spot was spreading on the varnish. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z I buy two end-of-day discounted rolls from the bakery for our supper, and two weeks after that, I have to decide between bread for our stomachs and coal for the stove. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Her eyes grew wider, more full of horror, or loathing, and she didn’t seem to be aware of him or of Lyra anymore, just of that insistent whisper through the coal silk at her side. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z My fire had burned down, leaving only a glowing red body of coals. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Dad and Uncle Robert started discussing business and I wandered away, trying to get a better angle on watching the continuous miner and the shuttle go through their choreographed dance of mining coal. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Peeta and I, on the other hand, are so mesmerizing with our ever-changing coal costumes that most of the other tributes are staring at us. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Ahead of us women in shawls and small children are picking up coal along the road. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Suddenly I began to scream, getting up in the darkness and plunging wildly about, bumping against walls, scattering coal, and in my anger extinguishing my feeble light. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Then on her bucket of coals she set her lunch to boil, and monitored the flame with a plaited palm fan. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z The thought of it plunged me into a melancholy as deep as the coal mine. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z It fell soundlessly, caught flame midair, and had begun to burn away to nothing before it ever had the chance to reach the coals. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z “It’s all that coal dust, from the old days,” I say. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z I pull on my gear, grab my spit, kick some dirt over the coals, and take off in the opposite direction the Careers went. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z He jerked his head, indicating the old coal shed at the back of the property where Mamita's gardener, Florentino, kept his tools. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z He and about thirty of his classmates were walking in early spring toward the train station, where their teacher had sent them to pick up coal that had spilled from railroad cars during loading. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z I have to let him up the spout or he’ll beat me up and tell my mother and the next thing she locks me in the coal hole all day with the rats. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z I opened the door, let in the coal man, and gave him the money and the note. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Years ago it was a warehouse to store coal, but when it fell into disuse, it became a meeting place for illegal trades and then blossomed into a full-time black market. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z The early homeowners had come mainly from one of two places: Philadelphia’s teeming neighborhoods, as my parents did, or from coal country in upstate Pennsylvania. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z One time when I brought coal to the nearby orphanage, I said to Doctor Korczak, “Do the orphans ride the merry-go-round?” Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z Pieces of coal were always falling off the trucks when they made their deliveries, and Brian suggested that he and I get a bucket and collect some. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Here the miners worked their eight-hour shifts, picking out the coal, loading it into a cart, and hauling it back out. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z He dropped the broken chain onto the brazier, where it slid down among the coals. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Perhaps because it was out of bounds, the coal shed was Mundín's and my favorite place to scout for Indians. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z A prisoner assisting the doctor gave Jack a bitter solution of coal ground up with water to drink. he whispered. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z Dad huffed a near laugh, reached down for a handful of coal dust, and tossed it in the air. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Then the match went out and I heard something fall softly upon the coal near by. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z As the years passed and his coal company prospered, Mr. Carter had concrete sidewalks poured, the streets paved, and the town fenced to keep cows from roaming the streets. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Then he grabbed them and thrust them into the lit coal stove. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z “Why do I have a belly full of coals?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z It wriggled its belly farther into the coals, almost like it was fidgeting. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I remember slicing into my palm to add my blood to the coals, my first act of defiance against my father. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z I turned a corner and I beheld an astonishingly huge machine, spotlights bolted to its side, tearing at a wall of coal. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The medical answer was what I expected to hear: Dad had suffocated, the macroscopic coal and rock dust that clogged his lungs finally denying him even a scintilla of air. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The smell of burning coals reached Loki’s nostrils. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z That chunk of coal was once a green plant, a fern or reed that lived one million years ago, or maybe two million, or maybe one hundred million . All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Pinkie dropped something into the coals and the fire sprang up; it was Harley’s red-and-white Hawaiian print shirt, but in a moment the fire turned the white print bloody red. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z We’d seen the coal bunker, the boilers and engine, which huffed and groaned like it would explode any minute. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z A girl about nine years old was tending the flames, poking the coals with a stick. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z The flame birds waited, like a bed of coals, glowing on the cool smooth sands. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z “The women heated peanuts on the coals. They held me down and put them on my chest.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Hands that have the power to mine coal but the precision to set a delicate snare. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z In one hand he held an ax with a head that glowed like an angry red coal. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Sometimes the rats escape and run into our house and into the coal hole under the stairs where it’s pitch dark and you can’t see them. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z We children were forbidden to wander this coal shed area ever since the time Mundín and I had set off a firecracker just as the miniature general paraded by with his nursemaids. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z “They’ll be staying for at least a couple of days. Start the coal heaters, and make sure their rooms are comfortable.” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z According to the equations of quantum mechanics, more power than is stored in all the coal mines, oil fields, and nuclear weapons in the world is sitting in the space inside your toaster. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The new recruit, Rosalind Franklin, had just finished studying coal crystals in Paris. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z At the opposite extreme, the largest Polynesian island, New Zealand, is an old, geologically diverse, continental fragment of Gondwanaland, offering a range of mineral resources, including commercially exploitable iron, coal, gold, and jade. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z We waited until some coal cars rumbled past, and then I lit the fuse and ran back to the grass at the edge of the rosebushes. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z She spotted him coming out of barbershops with windows the color of coal dust, from tiny booths that sold partridges, from battered, open- fronted stores packed with old tires piled from floor to ceiling. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Fathers and sons followed paths down the bluff to the nearby coal mines in Brackenridge, where they worked twelve hours a day, six days a week. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z Daddy opened the stove door and shoved in some coal, hard. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z Stabbing him with bitter iron, searing him with hot coals, that sort of thing. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z When he returned he brought with him a scuttle of coal and some kindling. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z From the midpoint of the division, a flaming torch sprang up, spewing out fire, hot coals, and sparks. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The stove spews out clean blue flames, unlike the ashy coals back home. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Put more coal in; it would burn after awhile. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z She peeled the roots of wild geraniums and baked them in hot coals. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He looked around for his sword, but it was in the hearth, glowing among the coals. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Kneeling before the fire, I pull apart the coals and place the groundnuts in them. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z It might seem a bit like looking for a black cat in a coal cellar. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Men and women with hunched shoulders, swollen knuckles, many who have long since stopped trying to scrub the coal dust out of their broken nails, the lines of their sunken faces. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z “It’s the coal mines for me for the rest of my life. It just ain’t fair!” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z A face black as coal itself stared back at me. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z A naphtha lamp hung over the table, and a brazier held burning coals against the bitter chill of the night. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z A figure in a long black overcoat was standing motionless across the room by the windows, hands clasped behind the back; near one of the hands I saw the tiny glow of a cigarette coal. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z It carried the black and acrid smell of coal—and something else, a chemical smell, maybe something they added to make the fires burn hotter. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z So I met Max every morning on his way to shovel coal, not to give him food but to arrange a signal. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Outside the protective embrace of the bay, the Burning Sea flickered like dim coals. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z “Do you not understand how our audacity will be perceived? Do you not understand, even now, what we have already accomplished, us coal miners’ kids down in deepest West by God Virginia? October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z It was as black as the coal dust under my fingernails. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z But there was no sign of the body, even though the body’s image hovered before his eyes, between his eyes and the bed of coals burning hotly. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z He saw a red heap of seething coals and heard the upward hum of the draff. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z She had dropped it on me like ten tons of coal. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z As a child, George dug a small coal mine in the hill behind his parents’ house. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z During the wait her skin had become wrinkled, her breasts had withered, the coals of her heart had gone out. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z We were all Jews being shipped around occupied Poland like coal or meat. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z All those years in Welch with no food, no coal, no plumbing, and Mom had been sitting on land worth a million dollars? The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z My mother took no pity on me and scrubbed the coal dirt off me with a stiff brush and Lava soap. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z They hung out of attic windows, rode on car fenders, delivered the coal, moved into Medallion and moved out, visited cousins, plowed, hoisted, lounged on the church steps, careened on the school playground. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z I carefully pushed the coals to the back of the fireplace and covered them with ashes. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z We walk faster, and the coal is getting heavier, and then we reach the corner where Januka needs to turn and I need to go straight on to Tatarska. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z He says we’re good boys for getting so much coal, that the Dock Road must have been covered with it. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z There’s a coal smell on his clothes and that makes me sneeze. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z We put the last of the coal on the fire and sit around telling stories which we make up the way Dad did. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Who told her to hollow out the log with coals? A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z One of the interrogators used a bellows to stoke the coals. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z "Here?" he asks in disbelief, as if I'd asked him to walk barefoot on hot coals or something. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Maybe she wants to see me sweat coal tar, ink, shoe polish, graphite. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z A week later Betsy was crushed to death beneath the wheels of a coal wagon. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z By late evening, he had walked about six miles and entered the outskirts of Bukchang, a coal town just south of the river with a population of about ten thousand people. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z She says, You can’t be delivering coal with the state of your eyes. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z His hair, still coal black except for touches of gray at his temples, was combed back, but his cheeks were sunken, and he had a thin beard. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z He had a simple one-story house with a small cellar used to store coal for cooking and heating, and potatoes, the main staple of their diet. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z There beneath the roots of soggy flowers were the bones of murdered pirates and dinosaurs, the eye of a unicorn turned to coal. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Mikey is fourteen now, bigger than any of us and strong from his job delivering coal. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “Well, not exactly. The main reason is that I don’t like to be dependent, particularly on electricity, rails, steam, oil, coal, machines, and all those things that can go wrong.” My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z It was pleasantly warm inside, the heat shimmering off the coals in a dozen small iron braziers. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Looks like this Manifest boy is going to shake the coal dust from his shoes and see the world. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z He pointed to the hearth, and the coals glowed. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z The third time she called for me, I was sore tempted to dump the glowing coals onto her bed, let it blaze, and ask if that was warm enough. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z When you order kalbi or bulgogi, a man brings a tin of red-hot coals to set inside the pit of the table. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The coal company used the block system, he said, each block being seventy-five feet by ninety feet. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z I couldn't walk into that room with the smoky fire from the damp branches I had scavenged at the edge of the woods after the coal had run out, my bands empty of any hope. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z But Hood’s eyes, normally so soft and sad, were wide and black as round coals, shining with a black heat. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a coal chute, like a sliding board, that went up to a metal hatch like a bigger version of a mail slot where the coal had been delivered. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Tyrion squatted across from him and warmed his hands over the coals. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The interior of the furnace grew black with coal. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z They shoveled coal in winters, fixed broken windows, scrubbed dirty floors, and prepared lunch. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z For example, in the living room was a cast-iron potbellied coal stove for heating and cooking. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z It hammered at the coal silk, but not a drop got in. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z A miasma of cinder-flecked smoke blackened its streets and at times reduced visibility to the distance of a single block, especially in winter, when coal furnaces were in full roar. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z He got up to pile more wood on the fire and he raked the coals back from the dead leaves. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z He stood at the edge of the pit, the crowd surging around him, hissing, mocking, their words scathing and dry as coals. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z He smelled of coal dust and grease and he was so close I buried my face in his shirt and listened to his heart, it was beating just for me. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I liked to rotate mine over a coal spot until they plumped up perfectly. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z As we trundled through town, I saw a few women out in their front yards shoveling coal into shuttles to carry inside to their Warm Morning heaters. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The trader responded with a tale of how his wife heated a can of peas on hot coals without opening it first. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The state bought them coal and paid for their school lunches. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z I looked around, and it hit me that if you replaced the electric heaters with a coal stove, this squat on the Lower East Side looked pretty much like the house on Little Hobart Street. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z I asked, thinking that maybe witches had been in the coal. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z He piled wood on the coals and fanned the fire to life and trudged out through the drifts to dig out the cart. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Werner tacks across the room and stirs the coals to life. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Thirty-one Sing Sing wardens had lasted only little over a year; they included a steamfitter, a coal dealer, a horseman, a postmaster, a customs revenue collector, a millionaire and philanthropist, and “assorted ward-heelers.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “The operator hit rock instead of coal. The teeth have been broken off. I will build new ones.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z In its furnaces the power plant burned coal, and out of its chimneys black smoke poured day and night, blanketing the town with soot and making all the floors dirtier than ever. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Hannon says the man who delivered sixteen hundredweights of coal and turf deserves a pint and the boy who helped him deserves a lemonade. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “Still thinks he’s the great football player. Well, I could’ve played, but I had to work, picking coal at the tipple after school.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z I held him down and had Mama hand me a stick with a coal of fire on it, so I could burn off three big bloated ticks that I found inside one of his ears. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z I got coal and the way of lighting it. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Her eyes were hot coals, and the sweat that dappled her skin seemed to glow with a light of its own. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I scrounged deep into the rubble of collapsed buildings, tunneling for coal bins. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z She was a blowsy woman with dyed yellow hair, and from time to time we saw her out in the front yard, chopping wood or filling a scuttle from the coal pile. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z His broad flat face was swart, his eyes were like coals, and his tongue was red; he wielded a great spear. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z On the way home, we swing by the Hob, the black market that operates in an abandoned warehouse that once held coal. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Voices, it turns out, streak into Zollverein from all over the continent, through the clouds, the coal dust, the roof. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The fire had gone to coals on the hearth, and Pa did not build it up. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z A brazier filled with hot coals set on the ground a few lengths in front of me. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z “Anyway, perhaps it is a good thing he has done. I will make more money loading coal.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “Their iron pony is still in the barn, stocked full of coal. And look.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z We’ll have to go down the Dock Road again to see if there’s any coal or turf lying around from the lorries. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z I look down, fascinated, as my ensemble slowly comes to life, first with a soft golden light but gradually transforming to the orange-red of burning coal. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z As he writhed slowly on his back near the coals, his heart pounded a steady beat like a distant drum. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z “Take a pinch of incense and sprinkle it over the coals,” Lon explained, pocketing the man’s coins. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z How can we even question it, we tributes trained to gather fish and lumber and coal? Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Michael can ring the front doorbells to keep the maids busy and Malachy and I can throw coal and turf over the walls and fill the pram all around Alphie. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z The wind was too strong to keep a candle alight, so he had to read his measurements and write them down by the light of a glowing coal. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Or let a man survey his grove of live-oak trees, hard as coal and hotter, the best firewood in the world. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Then I casually looked around the room and I glanced to my left and there, just a few feet away, right next to the coal stove, was Koko. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z “There’s more than fifty years of good coal left in that mine.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “You know, if you put enough pressure on coal it turns to pearls,” he says earnestly to Finnick. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z The fires at the coal mines belch black smoke in the distance. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z That chunk of coal was once a green plant, a fern or reed that lived one million years ago, or maybe two million, or maybe one hundred million. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z When the coal cars were full and stopped beneath the bridge, some of the braver boys would even leap into them, plunging waist-deep into the loose coal. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Early the next morning, Shin hopped a coal train bound for nearby Musan, a mining town on the border. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Mam tells us gather anything that burns, coal, wood, cardboard, paper. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z She loved to look at the fire in the fireplace, flickering and changing all the time, burning yellow and red and sometimes green above the logs, and hovering blue over the golden and ruby coals. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z “That’s the Number Four Pocahontas Seam, the finest and purest soft coal in the world. These lines I’ve drawn represent the tunnels we’ve driven through it since the mine has been operational.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z London’s air is, on many days, pea-soup thick, the coal smoke from factories mixing with fog. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The gardener did everything Clara told him to do and won eighty pesos in an illegal numbers game that was held behind a coal store. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Like the last person in the household to retire for the night, it would be Jefferson’s responsibility to close up the fireplace and “rake the ashes over the coals.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Every so often, somebody would come up with the idea of putting a penny on the track and getting it run over by the coal cars to make a big flat medal. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z And Barth explained how the exploding "coal" could be mixed in with the real coal, which would unwittingly be tossed into the furnace. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z The newspapers called Pioneer 1 a failure, but it wasn’t, not for us coal miners’ sons on top of the Coalwood Club House. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Francie got the idea of tipping over the cans, dumping the ashes on the cellar floor, carrying the empty cans up to the curb and then refilling them with coal buckets. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The fruit-sellers' carts and coal wagons were pulled down the street by horses back then. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z A breath of air stirred up the slumbering coals and cast shadows leaping and fighting on the inside walls of the little birchbark house. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z The sky had become dark behind her, and the only light in the room came from the coal fire in the hearth, so he couldn’t see her expression. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z The structure for lifting, sorting, and dumping the coal was called the tipple. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The dwarf stirred the coals with a poker. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I will walk hot coals with a quart of kerosene in my hand for this. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z It must be her heart, on the outside of her body, glowing like neon, like a coal. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Tendai heard water slosh and scatter a few hissing drops over the coals. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z There was a furnace with a coal pile beside it over in one corner. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “How about the striking coal miners in Pennsylvania and West Virginia?” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z I grab my coal bag suddenly with two hands and use my whole body to swing it upward. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Mama was carrying a panful of live coals to start the fire with. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z Even Teenie’s kitchen had a fire that never went out—those hot coals had been carefully tended at night. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Your heart is a stone, Capricorn, a black stone with about as much human sympathy as a lump of coal, and you are very, very proud of that.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Outside, with the night finally turning coal black above her head, Tally instantly felt better. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z After a lunch of milled corn and salted cabbage, the exhausted children, their faces and clothes covered in coal dust, headed back to the coalface, carrying candles in the ink-black mine. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The rest of Alexandra’s streets were filled by black faces, many of them as black as coal, full-blooded Africans. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z She tells me to start the fire in the range, that there’s paper and wood in a box and coal in the coal scuttle. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z He did not move, but held the steaming coal in the tongs and stared at me. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Clutching her food, she ran home, banked the fire, and put the last of the meat on the coals. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z A few men lit clay pipes with hot coals and puffed out a rank smoke. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z The rain beat on the coal silk with more force every minute. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z I saw a crude sign on the side of the wagon proclaiming YAMS, as I walked flush into the warmth thrown by the coals that glowed in a grate underneath. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Then I got up and put his test paper into the hot coals of the hearth. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Greasy bits dripped down and sizzled on the coals. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z |
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