Lexicographical Neighbors of Coalholes
Literary usage of Coalholes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"When our fathers flourished, songs were indeed chanted at a late hour, at the
coalholes and Cider-cellars of the time, more beastly than anything that would ..."
2. Fors Clavigera: Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain by John Ruskin (1871)
"... recovered the feeling; —which, after being taught for fifty years that impudence
is the chief duty of man, and that living in coalholes and ash-heaps is ..."
3. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1905)
"... (2) sidewalks: (a) condition; (u) areaways; (c) coalholes and gratings; (d)
icy sidewalks; (e) awnings; (8) things falling: (a) buildings or chimneys; ..."
4. The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value and by Abraham Clark Freeman (1906)
"That he had never seen a coal-hole like the one in question before, and that it
was unlike the other coalholes used in Kansas City. ..."
5. Transactions of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers by American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1910)
"The latter has capacity for over 150 tons of coal, which is dumped into it through
sidewalk coalholes from wagons in the street. 6 The engines are Rathbun ..."
6. The Massachusetts Law of Landlord and Tenant: Including the Cases in Vol by Prescott Farnsworth Hall (1922)
"... of coalholes or covers, or from not removing snow or ice from or that may be
on the sidewalks of the building or occasioned by the use or escape of ..."
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