Meaning of coalsmoke | Babel Free

Examples

“During the long wait in the station another smell assailed our nostrils; a compound of coalsmoke, fish, oranges and other fruit and vegetables. […] Out in the village there was a new smell: peatsmoke, a much more romantic smell than coalsmoke – the railway was now far away.”

“The sunrise of Hopkins—with “brown brink” suggesting a cloud of industrial smoke—presents the streaks and colors of the sun, seen through the air full of coalsmoke, as an image of the Holy Ghost.”

“On my return, I stopped and pulled down the window. A blast of icy air laced with coalsmoke hit me in the face.”

“They are city-dwellers, men whose lives pass in the shadows of buildings, whose lungs are silted with coalsmoke, and few will ever cross the sea.”

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