coalscuttle

An opera cloak trimmed with fur; a long purple velvet cloak; a purple velvet "coalscuttle" bonnet, trimmed with white roses; a point-lace handkerchief; valenciennes lace; Brussels lace; and in the bottom of the trunk

My day : reminiscences of a long life, 1909

Driving through the sprawling city, we passed a huge equestrian statue of Atatürk surrounded by statues of his soldiers, one of which surprised me by wearing a big World War I lugged German coalscuttle helmet.

Archive 2006-07-01 Walter Jon Williams 2006

Driving through the sprawling city, we passed a huge equestrian statue of Atatürk surrounded by statues of his soldiers, one of which surprised me by wearing a big World War I lugged German coalscuttle helmet.

Log of the Eclipse (10) (All Over Again) Walter Jon Williams 2006

The company were not a little surprised at this discovery, upon which Mr Dennison facetiously congratulated both the father and the son: for my part, I shook my new-found cousin heartily by the hand, and Lismahago complimented him with the tears in his eyes, for he had been hopping about the room, swearing in broad Scotch, and bellowing with the pain occasioned by the fall of the coalscuttle upon his foot.

The Expedition of Humphry Clinker 2004

The screen, the coalscuttle, the sideboard remained to him.

Mrs. Dalloway 2003

So much so that Maigret got up and, disregarding the empty coalscuttle, went to poke the stove.

Storm in the Channel Simenon, Georges 1977

But to return to the action of two hypnotists on one person, it may be noted that the sound like the giving of a tin box heard by Miss Moore, Miss Freer, and Miss Langton, [31] and afterwards like the lid of a coalscuttle caught by a dress by Mrs. M., [32] was the sound of a gong doubtless used to stimulate the hypnotised partner in the blackguard couple.

Inferences from Haunted Houses and Haunted Men John William Harris

Sometimes they acted as frowning walls for the stream, running deep and dark through narrow gorges; elsewhere they took the form of great round-headed boulders, varying in size from a coalscuttle to a dwelling-house.

Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler William Senior

Her smiling face, as she appeared at the door every morning with broom and coalscuttle, was a tonic in itself.

Fanny Goes to War Pat Beauchamp Washington

Did you see that old woman behind in a black coalscuttle?

The Giant's Robe F. Anstey 1895