coal heaver

The aforementioned stories may very well be legitimate, but let's consider them a sort of canary in the coal mine.

It was little better than coal dust, and would not carry a ball fifty paces to kill or wound.

Of late, however, it has acquired a far greater interest through the discovery of coal underneath its surface.

And one of the seraphims flew to me, and in his hand was a live coal, which he had taken with the tongs off the altar.

An explosion took place in the Blackheath coal mines, Virginia; by which of the twenty-three workmen only one escaped death.

But its use as such is to dispose of any such idea as that there is a natural price of coal or of anything else.