Coal Chute

Most of the burgled houses had their doors fitted with strong, sophisticated thief-proof locks, but the coal-chute doors were secured by very simple locks — after all, who would want to steal a few pieces of coal? ❋ Wingfield, R. D. (1984)

"Through the coal-chute," said the first constable and limped around the front to show them. ❋ Wingfield, R. D. (1984)

But with the coal-chute door forced open, all the intruder had to do was slither down into the coal cellar and out through the inner door, straight into the house. ❋ Wingfield, R. D. (1984)

I think you will like the room-it faces on the coal-chute, and has hot and cold folding-doors, and running water when the roof leaks! ❋ J. Raymond Elderdice (N/A)

Then Mr. Duncan talked about gardening, and from that to Dave's skill in backing his team to the coal-chute, and from that to coal itself. ❋ Robert J. C. Stead (1919)

Mr. Duncan, tall, quiet, and forty-five, was at work in his garden as Dave turned the team in the lane and backed them up the long, narrow drive connecting with the family coal-chute. ❋ Robert J. C. Stead (1919)

He drew behind the gun a sort of trestle, with little cars, not unlike the Scenic Railway, on which ammunition was delivered into the breech by something strongly resembling a coal-chute. ❋ Mary Roberts Rinehart (1917)

And our little procession of three carriages with white-favour-adorned horses and drivers, went through all the huge, noisy, indifferent traffic like a lost china image in the coal-chute of an ironclad. ❋ Unknown (1906)

The mate, looking down the bridge, which slanted more than a coal-chute, whistled softly to himself. ❋ Unknown (1897)

Why, it can't be more than mid-afternoon, yet it's as dark as a stack of black cats in a coal-chute. " ❋ Roy Rockwood (N/A)