coaly

Example Sentences

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She could smell coaly deposits on the surfaces, cordite, paraffin, like fireworks in the park on bonfire night, or northern streets in December.

From The Guardian • Mar. 18, 2013

Underclay, with rootlets of Stigmaria, resting on gray shale, with two thin coaly seams.

From The Chain of Life in Geological Time A Sketch of the Origin and Succession of Animals and Plants by Dawson, Sir J. William

Bed No. 9 is the same mineral that forms beds 1 and 5; but it has a grayer colour from the greater quantity of coaly particles, and its structure is slightly slaty.

From Narrative of a Second Expedition to the Shores of the Polar Sea by Franklin, John

I looked at the customary coaly vapour flying aft, but was unenlightened.

From The Bonadventure A Random Journal of an Atlantic Holiday by Blunden, Edmund

But one of the peculiar qualities of the Black Band ironstone is that in many cases it contains sufficient coaly matter for purposes of calcination, without any admixture of coal whatever.

From Industrial Biography, Iron Workers and Tool Makers by Smiles, Samuel