Lexicographical Neighbors of Coalyards
Literary usage of Coalyards
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lives of the Engineers, with an Account of Their Principal Works: Comprising by Samuel Smiles (1861)
"... the vessels lying in the Pool or down the river, and the warehouses and
coalyards on shore, it became a very crowded and often a very confused scene. ..."
2. The Travels Through England of Dr. Richard Pococke, Successively Bishop of by Richard Pococke, James Joel Cartwright (1889)
"... to the great prejudice of the trade at Southampton ; and at Eling, on the
other side of the water, the Salisbury merchants have their coalyards. ..."
3. Safeguards for City Youth at Work and at Play by Louise de Koven Bowen (1914)
"... running away from school, fighting, playing craps or baseball on the street,
or gathering coal as it fell from the trains passing through the coalyards. ..."
4. The Lost City!: Drama of the Fire Fiend! Or Chicago, as it Was, and as it Is by Frank Luzerne (1872)
"... and in a moment, before we could think, the distillery and coalyards and lumber
were all on fire, and our house was in a great cloud of flame. ..."
5. Works of the Camden Society by Camden Society (Great Britain), Royal Historical Society (Great Britain) (1889)
"... to the great prejudice of the trade at Southampton ; and at Eling, on the
other side of the water, the Salisbury merchants have their coalyards. ..."
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