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Small coal

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Little coals of wood formerly used to light fires
Coal about the size of a hazelnut, separated from the coarser parts by screening.
- Gay.

See also: Small Small



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Now the reality was in my hold, I only felt that I was dusty with the dust of small coal, and that I had a weight upon my daily remembrance to which the anvil was a feather.
Fanny Magenis stops with her mother, who sells small coal and potatoes, most likely, in Islington-town, hard by London, though she's always bragging of her father's ships, and pointing them out to us as they go up the river: and Mrs.
The bark's crew fired small coal from the galley, and the dories threatened to come aboard and "razee" her.
 
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