coal-pit

The first, HE DIED WITH HIS EYES OPEN, is coal-pit noir, like if Willeford and Bruen had had a love child.

How the Dead Live -- Derek Raymond Bill Crider 2008

Within weeks of moving in we discovered that several times a month, and occasionally nightly or even hourly—especially during periods of intense thunderstorm activity, when the house vibrated with colliding-boulder crashes and electric blue forks sizzled around the yard—the picture on the TV would shrink to a gray square and a coal-pit darkness would envelop us.

Rainbow’s End Lauren St John 2007

Within weeks of moving in we discovered that several times a month, and occasionally nightly or even hourly—especially during periods of intense thunderstorm activity, when the house vibrated with colliding-boulder crashes and electric blue forks sizzled around the yard—the picture on the TV would shrink to a gray square and a coal-pit darkness would envelop us.

Rainbow’s End Lauren St John 2007

There are two poor brothers from near Chorley, who work from morning to night in a coal-pit, and who, in all weathers, have walked eight miles a-night, three nights a-week, to attend the classes in which they have gained distinction.

Speeches: Literary and Social 2007

On one occasion, having been induced to visit a coal-pit on the coast of Fife, he was conducted a little way under the sea, and brought to daylight again on a small island, or what was such at full tide, down which a shaft had been sunk.

The Fortunes of Nigel 2004

I have been dragged, half-drowned like a rotten ewe, from the bottom of a river; and who knows but I may be next dragged quite dead from the bottom of a coal-pit — if so be as I am, I shall go to hell to be sure, for being consarned like in my own moorder, that I will, so I will; for, a plague on it!

The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves 2004

It was like a coal-pit still standing, holding by the roots to the broken soil, and whose branches, like fine black paper cuttings, showed distinctly on the watery ceiling.

Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea 2003

If one or more malevolent beings were concealed in the coal-pit, and there concocted mischief, Nell surely could have warned them of it, yet she said nothing.

The Underground City 2003

Two tiny coal-pit eyes sat in the puttylike heads where real eyes ought to have been.

The Hour of the Gate Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1984

Two tiny coal-pit eyes sat in the puttylike heads where real eyes ought to have been.

The Hour of the Gate Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1984