bright coal
Americannoun
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The three young people had the drawing-room, with its bright coal fire, to themselves.
From The Mystery of Murray Davenport A Story of New York at the Present Day by Robert Neilson Stephens
He leaned over the sill at a perilous angle, the bright coal of his pipe spilling comet-wise to the area-way below.
From The Lure of the Mask by Harrison Fisher
There a bright coal fire was blazing in the grate, and thither Guy repaired, finding, as he had expected, Jessie and her teacher.
From Aikenside by Mary Jane Holmes
His keen black eyes shone like bright coal in their wrinkled sockets.
From The Man with the Double Heart by Muriel Hine
The same result was also produced, he found, by the light of a bright coal from a wood fire, or the light of red-hot iron; but not at so great a distance.
From Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume II (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings by Wiliam Cabell Bruce
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