steam coal

How to use steam coal in a sentence

• Lights were blazing round it, for the pit was working night and day getting the steam coal to the surface.

  The World Peril of 1910 | George Griffith

• This would mean further breakage, and, in the case of steam coal especially, a depreciation in value.

  British Canals | Edwin A. Pratt

• The house and steam coal raised at some of the English collieries named in the foregoing tables is probably the best in the world.

  Railway Rates: English and Foreign | J. Grierson

• The boats were short of steam coal, which was a most cheerful bit of information.

  A Sub and a Submarine | Percy F. Westerman

• "Stuff of that kind is like steam coal to a boiler," spoke Mr. Scanlon.

  Ashton-Kirk, Criminologist | John T. McIntyre