bright coal

American  

noun

1. coal consisting of alternating layers of clarain and vitrain.

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Example Sentences

The trucks stood full of wet, bright coal.

From Sons and Lovers by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)

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 Bruce, Wiliam Cabell

The light of a bright coal from a wood fire, and the light of a red-hot iron, do it likewise, but not at so great a distance.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 13 by Rudd, John

She writes of this visit: Imagine a quiet little parlor with a bright coal fire, and the gaslight burning above a centre-table, about which Hatty, Fred, and I are seated.

From Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe Compiled From Her Letters and Journals by Her Son Charles Edward Stowe by Stowe, Harriet Beecher

Mr. Sylvester sat in his library, musing before a bright coal fire, whose superabundant heat and blaze seemed to make the loneliness of the great empty room more apparent.

From The Sword of Damocles A Story of New York Life by Green, Anna Katharine