Coaly

In this coaly no-time strewn with fallen stars, you are a roaming panther and I am a tangle of snakes. ❋ Roberta Lawson (2011)

Nearer, I distinguished the green slime of ditches mixing with the pale drab of dried clay and shiny, coaly patches. ❋ H. G. Wells (2009)

The perspective of squat blue slate roofs and clustering chimneys drifted downward towards the irregular open space before the colliery — a space covered with coaly, wheel-scarred mud, with a patch of weedy dump to the left and the colliery gates to the right. ❋ Herbert George (2006)

I was covered with coaly mud — knees, elbows, shoulders, back. ❋ Herbert George (2006)

Before them, by the stile rose a notice-board, bearing still dimly visible, the words, “BEWARE OF THE TRAINS,” half hidden by splashes of coaly mud. ❋ Herbert George (2006)

So, inverting the condition of the city clerk in the days when London was scarce inhabitable because of the coaly foulness of its air, the labourers now came hurrying by road or air to the city and its life and delights at night to leave it again in the morning. ❋ Unknown (2006)

His sense of right and wrong became fluid with confusion; he saw no sign of anything to eat; and the loud howl of an injured heart began to issue from the coaly rampart of neglected teeth. ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)

But several very coaly-looking men, who could scarcely be taught to keep silence, observed that the magistrate smiled once or twice; and this made them wait a bit, and wink at one another. ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)

At least, Mr John Rokesmith was on the pier looking out, about a couple of hours before the coaly (but to him gold-dusty) little steamboat got her steam up in London. ❋ Unknown (2004)

As I passed under what appeared to be a railroad bridge I inquired in Welsh of an ancient-looking man, in coaly habiliments, if it was one. ❋ Unknown (2004)

There was a line of whitewash near the top of the coaly wall. ❋ Edith (2003)

It has a clean sandy beach instead of the mud and pebbles and coaly defilements of Port Burdock, a row of six bathing machines, and a shelter on the parade in which the Three Ps sat after a satisfying but rather expensive lunch that had included celery. ❋ Unknown (2003)

After a muttered consultation in some Saracen tongue, one of the servants, a tall man with coaly skin and hair like the fleece of a black sheep, went into the house. ❋ FOLLETT, Ken (1989)

Philosophical Transactions of 1813, on the coaly matter in the bronchial glands, was convinced beyond a doubt, that it was of foreign origin, and possessed the properties of carbon conveyed into the lungs from without. ❋ Archibald Makellar (N/A)

Port Saïd has undoubtedly improved, but still it is not a nice place, and we were unfeignedly glad to repair on board the _Marie Valerie_ as soon as we noted the cessation of the black coaly cloud, through the murkiness of which a chattering stream of gnome-like figures passed their burthens of ❋ T. R. Swinburne (N/A)

The man stepped into this, the chain was passed about his waist, he was smothered in heavy flannels which were tied about him with cords; the end of a long coil of dirty, oily, coaly, three-ply twine was fastened round his right wrist, and he was swung into the smoke. ❋ David Christie Murray (N/A)

Round about the bed shafts of the mine, the downcast and the upcast, a little space was held voluntarily clear and half a dozen men in coaly flannels were standing there. ❋ David Christie Murray (N/A)

One coaly giant yelled, "That's the lot," when the last batch came up, and then the crowd went mad, weeping, cheering, dancing mad. ❋ David Christie Murray (N/A)

[Do you] still [skate] on [Fridays] with your coalie friends? ❋ Markus McParkus (2005)

Person 1: Have you checked [COALI's] discord server out? Person 2: No, [I'm afraid] of [zeeshan]. ❋ Coalifan (2021)

[Yaphet Kotto]: "My dear Wesley, you're looking quite black today." [Wesley Snipes]: "Moi? Pish, tosh. You, my friend, are a block of solid carbon." [Sambo]: "Y'all are coalies." ❋ Golda Meir (2007)

I'm [planning] a [road trip] to Coalie [next weekend] to visit my friend who lives there. ❋ Youngslobe (2023)