I put the shovel away and calmly sat down on the coal-box facing him. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Clutching the woodwork of the galley for support, — and I confess the grease with which it was scummed put my teeth on edge, — I reached across a hot cooking-range to the offending utensil, unhooked it, and wedged it securely into the coal-box. ❋ Unknown (2010)
As it was, Kilmanskeg slid under a table and Peter Piper sat down in the coal-box; but notwithstanding all this, they did not lose their tempers and when the nurse sat their house down on the floor with a bump, they all got up and began to laugh. ❋ Frances Hodgson Burnett (2006)
No fire was laid, only a few scraps of torn paper and the bowl of a broken corn-cob pipe were visible behind the bars, and in the corner and rather thrust away was an angular japanned coal-box with a damaged hinge. ❋ Herbert George (2006)
Nothing was wanting, not even a coal-box and water-pail. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Mr. Mack saw the fire that reflected on coal-box and fender, and he had the notion of it grinning at the novelty and sharing the joke with its neighbors. ❋ Jamie O’Neill (2002)
Mentally cursing her own foolishness, she felt in the darkness for a table, for a lamp ... and yes, a coal-box and tongs. ❋ Jordan, Robert, 1948- (1983)
A representative of THE STARS AND STRIPES found him the afternoon after the fight seated on a coal-box reading his favorite dime novel -- in which he finds a laugh in every line -- and wearing the same sized hat. ❋ United States. Army. American Expeditionary Forces (N/A)
But he couldn't replenish it, for Scrooge kept the coal-box in his own room; and so surely as the clerk came in with the shovel, the master predicted that it would be necessary for them to part. ❋ Charles Herbert Sylvester (N/A)
A fire, however, was still burning, and the coal-box only half empty. ❋ Mrs. George Croft Huddleston (N/A)
She led him straight to the coal-box, on which she sat until he had filled a hod with coal. ❋ Sarah J. Eddy (N/A)
I shall hurl it into the coal-box in the morning .... ❋ Mary E. Mann (N/A)
Diana's _vis-à-vis_ at table was the redoubtable Miss Jenkins of coal-box fame, and her neighbours on either hand two students of one of the musical colleges. ❋ Margaret Pedler (N/A)
She took a small lump out of the coal-box, and Harry did the same. ❋ Various (N/A)
Johnson Mendoza John Brown puts on his hat (he surely ought to have had a full-bottomed wig under it) and walks off, leaving his opponent doubtless more like a dog in a coal-box than ever. ❋ Various (N/A)
One told me he got hit trying to dig out three of his section who were half buried by an exploded coal-box. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)
It was he who fed her, and washed her face a great many times a day, and coaxed her to sleep, and took her to ride in her little cart, or walked very slowly when she chose to toddle along by his side, and changed her dress when she tumbled into the coal-box or sat down in a mud puddle. ❋ Various (N/A)
(This was in pre-war times, it must be remembered, and the scuttles were of painfully meagre proportions.) "It might be as well to put that large coal-box in her room -- you know the one I mean -- and make the charge eightpence." ❋ Margaret Pedler (N/A)
Gradually he became aware of other things: a small silver golf trophy on the dresser and a pair of slippers, grey with age and long discarded, stuffed behind the coal-box, which was also a fireside seat. ❋ Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966 (1934)
