What is "coal."

Usage examples of "coal.".

The fuel to be used was coal. This would be transported by rail from Utah, seven hundred miles away, where coal was plentiful and relatively cheap.

Coalf Tunipah was coal. Without coal-to be freighted from Utah to Califomia-no Tunipah electric generating plant was feasible.

And not just any old coal, but good stuff-low in sulfur, clean burning, most of it near the surface and easily mined.

But all around them were the sight and sound and smell and taste of coal. A fine gravel of black dust was underfoot.

It was important to acquire a feel159 ing about coal, coal as it would relate to Tunipah, for his testimony next week.

In the last few decades America had turned its back on coal, which once brought cheap energy, along with growth and prosperity, when the United States was young.

While they watched, a diesel locomotive on a rail spur jockeyed a long train of freight cars delivering still more coal. Each car, without uncoupling, moved into a rotary dumper which then inverted, letting the coal fall out onto heavy grates.

He ignored the hurt and scrambled forward, upward, over loose, shifting coal, nearer to the workman who was lying dazed and was stirring feebly on a higher portion of the belt.

To my great relief the glow faded from its hateful eyes: blazing fire subsiding to flickering flame, flame to hot coals, hot coals to dull embers.

Ultimately, however, the poor man was convicted on the massive weight of evidence that had been collected, evidence that purported to show how, in a fit of sexual psychopathy, he had stolen into the Penfield house, had abused the woman and both children, had cold-bloodedly hacked them to pieces, and then had disposed of their remains in a superheated furnace fueled by oil-soaked coal. Bloodstained underwear belonging to the children and to Mrs.

Earlier, on the county route, driving past the strangely secluded entrance to Lightning Coal, we had seen nothing of the offices.

Now, at fast glance, they almost appeared to have been constructed of coal. The windows were narrow, and some were barred, and the glow of fluorescent lights beyond the dirty glass lent no warmth to those mean panes.

The only thing that seemed real was stone-a mountainweight of stone-dust, occasional shallow pools of stagnant water, crumbling timbers, with rusted iron braces, coal, and darkness.

After what happened up at Lightning Coal, the goblins are busting their butts looking for newcomers, outsiders.