coalsmoke

For example: "Two shafts of soft daylight fell across the flagged floor from the high barbacans: and at the meeting of their rays a cloud of coalsmoke and fumes of fried grease floated, turning."

A Scholar Senator Speaks Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011

He smelled, as did the back of the shop, of coalsmoke and steel.

A Corridor in the Asylum 2010

Two shafts of soft daylight fell across the flagged floor from the high barbacans: and at the meeting of their rays a cloud of coalsmoke and fumes of fried grease floated, turning. —

Ulysses 2003

There he saw a great reek of coalsmoke east of the homestead, so he rides thither, and gets off his horse and ties him up, but he goes where the smoke was thickest.

The Story of Burnt Njal: the great Icelandic tribune, jurist, and counsellor Unknown

Two shafts of soft daylight fell across the flagged floor from the high barbacans: and at the meeting of their rays a cloud of coalsmoke and fumes of fried grease floated, turning.

Ulysses James Joyce 1911

There is no room to convey the city-ness of the cities: the horsedung and coalsmoke of London, the tram rattle of Vienna, the dry Martinis of Milan or the neon of Tokyo.

Evening Standard - Home 2008