Lexicographical Neighbors of Coalsacks
Literary usage of Coalsacks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Observatory by Royal Astronomical Society (Gran Bretaña), Royal Greenwich Observatory, NASA Astrophysics Data System Abstract Service, Royal astronomical society GB (1879)
"He described with accuracy both the so-called " coalsacks," and gave a drawing
of the largest of them. He was, in 1724, ordered out to Ferro, ..."
2. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History and Politics of the Year (1853)
"... where the fireman had placed a large quantity of newly-tarred coalsacks ;
others ot- tributed the fire to the circumstance that the stokers had been ..."
3. The Badminton Magazine of Sports & Pastimes edited by Alfred Edward Thomas Watson (1897)
"He was a wharfinger, a man of huge physique, who, when he fancied he was in danger
of acquiring superfluous bulk, would strip and ' heave' coalsacks with ..."
4. The Discovery of America: With Some Account of Ancient America and the by John Fiske (1892)
"... the Milky Way changed its shape, and the mysterious coalsacks seemed to beckon
the voyager onward into realms of eternal sleet and frost. ..."
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