coals

Security is to be given to land coals at the places, for which they are exported, upon pain of forfeiting the ihip, and coals» or the value thereof.

A Compendious Digest of the Statute Law, Comprising the Substance and Effect of All the Public ... 1787

His narrow eyes burned like twin coals through their narrow slits, as he piped in a high-cracked voice, "But that is not all."

KEESH, SON OF KEESH 2010

I was thoroughly raked over the coals from the local tree huggers but kept on with the plan.

Habitat in the Making 2009

I was thoroughly raked over the coals from the local tree huggers but kept on with the plan.

Habitat in the Making 2009

The thurifer takes some coals from the Paschal fire and places them in the thurible.

Compendium of the 1955 Holy Week Revisions of Pius XII: Part 6.1 - Holy Saturday and the Blessing of the New Fire, Procession, Exultet, Prophecies 2009

Opening the cans with our hunting knifes we heated up our meal on some coals from the fire.

A Tale of Survival 2009

He was gaunt and worn and dirty, and his eyes burned like twin coals in their cavernous sockets.

THE SUNLANDERS 2010

Eugene Volokh • May 7, 2010 12:39 pm apparently stems from the name of a tree, which might in turn stem from the French word for “to crumble,” the Spanish and French words for glowing coals, or possibly the Arabic word for saffron?

The Volokh Conspiracy » The Name of What Country 2010

She would tell me to bring her the water too, and the burning coals from the wood fire, under the pot-a pot that had three legs on it.

Finding Poems : Kwame Dawes : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

The provision of a stable market for the industrial and railway coals is bound up with the general prosperity of the country, but there would appear to be good prospects for the maintenance of an adequate and orderly marketing of the output from this area.

Canada's Coal Problem 1947