Coal Sack
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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The "Coal Sack" showed itself full of brilliant jewels.
From Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa by Stockley, Cynthia
The most remarkable of these holes is one in the neighbourhood of the Southern Cross, known as the "Coal Sack in Crux."
From Astronomy of To-day A Popular Introduction in Non-Technical Language by Dolmage, Cecil Goodrich Julius
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
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
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)
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