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Coal Sack

British  

noun

  1. a dark nebula in the Milky Way close to the Southern Cross

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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By all the devils of the Coal Sack," he shouted, "the man doesn't live who can take me alive!

From Runaway by Ashman, William

There is a still more remarkable one south of the equator, called the Coal Sack, as a sort of nickname that has a farcical force from its very inadequacy. 

From Two on a Tower by Hardy, Thomas

In the Milky Way, near the Southern Cross, occurs a terrible circular abyss, the Coal Sack.

From The Blue Lagoon: a romance by Stacpoole, H. De Vere (Henry De Vere)

This gulf of Cimmerian darkness was called by early navigators the Coal Sack.

From The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' by Orchard, Thomas Nathaniel

The "Coal Sack" showed itself full of brilliant jewels.

From Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa by Stockley, Cynthia

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