coal-scuttles

So the two brothers went off hand-in-hand into the wood, and returned in a minute with their arms full of things — such as bolsters, blankets, hearth-rugs, table-cloths, dish-covers and coal-scuttles.

Through the Looking Glass 2003

Why carry up heavy coal-scuttles from the cellar and bend over hot fires, wearing out nerve and brain and muscle that should be reserved for higher duties?

Woman and Labour 2003

There were dozens of almond-eyed Chinese within sight, dozens of black Hindoos in turbans and flowing garments, dozens of Parsees wearing long black coats and hats like inverted coal-scuttles; to say nothing of numerous Portuguese and English, the latter mostly merchants and plantation owners.

Around the World in Ten Days Chelsea Curtis Fraser

I was once in a house where the master always brought up the heavy evening water-cans and morning coal-scuttles for the maids.

The Power of Womanhood, or Mothers and Sons A Book For Parents, And Those In Loco Parentis Ellice Hopkins

We sometimes meet carts loaded with old tin kettles and worn-out iron coal-scuttles traversing our streets.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 559, July 28, 1832 Various

By that time I had cleaned a considerable portion of the woodwork of the house, lime-whitened a portion of an outside wall, filled several coal-scuttles, and swept the yard.

Chatterbox, 1905. Various

Brass coal-scuttles and duplex lamps are about all that remains in the way of bait, and these are the only things they won't rise to.

With Rimington L. March Phillipps

It don't take much to live, anyhow; it's coal-scuttles an 'lookin'-glasses an' -- an 'carpets that cost money.

While Caroline Was Growing Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon 1918

Signor Rodriguez informed them of an old Spaniard who fiddled at weddings -- fiddled so as to make a tortoise waltz; and his daughter, although endowed with eyes as black as coal-scuttles, had the same power over the piano.

The Voyage Out 1915

Rambling official buildings, made of white concrete and roofed with _nipa_ or with corrugated iron; a ragged plaza, with the church and convent, and the long streets lined with native houses; pigs with heads like coal-scuttles; chickens and yellow dogs and naked brats, scabby and peanut-shaped, -- such are the first and last impressions of the

The Great White Tribe in Filipinia 1914