Chaldrons

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They scarcely hoped to be believed when they affirmed that two hundred and eighty thousand chaldrons that is to say, about three hundred and fifty thousand tons, were, in the last year of the reign of Charles the Second, brought to the Thames. ❋ Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay (1829)

In 2009, Jonathan Lethem's Chronic City featured a motley assortment of pot-smoking Manhattanites who become obsessed with "chaldrons", beautiful, urnlike objects that none of them has actually seen in person. ❋ Unknown (2011)

It is in response to Perkus 'whim, and along with Oona Lazlo, the accomplished underwriter, and Richard Abneg, a social justice advocate who now works for the mayor, the two embark upon an inane grail-quest for mysterious ceramics known as "chaldrons." ❋ Unknown (2009)

By degrees, however, the reports grew stronger, and more frequent, and at last a barge, laden with numerous chaldrons of the best Wallsend, brought up the positive intelligence that several of the arches of the old bridge were stopped, and that preparations were actually in progress for constructing the new one. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The workable quantity of coal remaining in the ten principal seams of this coal-field is estimated at 1,876,848,756 Newcastle chaldrons (each 35 cwt.). ❋ Earl Of Caithness John Sutherland Sinclair (N/A)

Why was not this new light preached to them long ago: twenty bushels of it would have been of more value than as many chaldrons of sermons, and taking even the explosions of the inspector into the bargain. ❋ Various (N/A)

Afterwards the word was also used of the amount of coal a keel would carry, i.e. 8 chaldrons, or 21 tons 4 cwt. ❋ George Chapman (N/A)

A few additional chaldrons of coals and pairs of blankets, the first frosty winter, bound them his slaves for ever. ❋ Various (N/A)

In the brickfields at Uxbridge, near the Drayton Station, one of the brickmakers alone will frequently contract for fifteen or sixteen thousand chaldrons of this cinder-dust, in one order. ❋ Various (N/A)

Deducting losses and underground and surface waste, the total merchantable round or good-sized coal will be 1,251,232,507 Newcastle chaldrons. ❋ Earl Of Caithness John Sutherland Sinclair (N/A)

The Vice-Principal's allowance of fuel for the entire year was reduced to "30 cords of maple wood and 2 chaldrons of coal." ❋ Cyrus MacMillan (1916)

Cargo: 254 chaldrons of coals [nearly 300 tons], a box of stuffed birds, and six spars, produce of this province. ❋ William Charles Henry Wood (1905)

The lord mayor, having found all remedies to stay its progress utterly fail, by advice of the medical faculty, ordered that great fires should be kindled in certain districts, by way of purifying the air, Accordingly, two hundred chaldrons of coal, at four pounds a chaldron, were devoted to this purpose. ❋ Unknown (1883)

They scarcely hoped to be believed when they affirmed that two hundred and eighty thousand chaldrons -- that is to say, about three hundred and fifty thousand tons-were, in the last year of the reign of Charles II., brought to the Thames. ❋ John Greenleaf Whittier (1849)

By degrees, however, the reports grew stronger, and more frequent, and at last a barge, laden with numerous chaldrons of the best ❋ Charles Dickens (1841)

His load, however, at the utmost, could not have been more than a few bushels, whereas mine was exactly one hundred and thirty-five chaldrons and seven tubs. ❋ Nathaniel Hawthorne (1834)

A brickmaker being hired by a brewer to make some bricks for him at his country-house, wrote to the brewer that he could not go forward unless he had two or three loads _of spanish_, and that otherwise his bricks would cost him six or seven chaldrons of coals extraordinary, and the bricks would not be so good and hard neither by a great deal, when they were burnt. ❋ Daniel Defoe (1696)

Again, the brickmakers all about London, do mix sea-coal ashes, or laystal-stuff, as we call it, with the clay of which they make bricks, and by that shift save eight chaldrons of coals out of eleven, in proportion to what other people use to burn them with, and these ashes they call _spanish_. ❋ Daniel Defoe (1696)

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