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When the squad of police failed to do a spot check inside the cottage and satisfied themselves with a routine enquiry at the door followed by a look inside the coalhouse in the back yard, she became convinced that Mrs Hixon was right.

The Fifth Rapunzel Gill, B. M. 1991

Then a laugh round the whole house: Jack's fell in the coalhouse

They Don't Write Them Like that Any More 1985

Her glance happened upon some tiny lumps of coal, spilled from the coalhouse door.

The Dollmaker Harriette Arnow 1954

They passed the Daly coalhouse where the little Dalys were now mixing snowballs with the screams they flung at Wheateye.

The Dollmaker Harriette Arnow 1954

Cassie became Miss Huffacre, the side of the coalhouse a blackboard, a piece of kindling wood a pointer.

The Dollmaker Harriette Arnow 1954

On one glorious windy afternoon, just as school let out, a coalhouse only two alleys away caught fire, and the fire truck that came clanging stuck fast and stood helplessly roaring, smothered in children, while two women in housecoats put out the fire with water from their mop pails.

The Dollmaker Harriette Arnow 1954

She set Judy on the coalhouse roof and leaned against it resting.

The Dollmaker Harriette Arnow 1954

Bending low with his arms about his head and blood trickling down his chin, he dashed behind the Meanwell coalhouse.

The Dollmaker Harriette Arnow 1954

The shrill voices of the children, rising all around her, made a buzzing in her ears, for the argument between her boys and the Meanwells on one side and the Dalys on the other about the tent they had been trying to build together in the corner formed by her fence and the Meanwell coalhouse, was starting up again.

The Dollmaker Harriette Arnow 1954

Wheateye, whose legs were nimble as her tongue, had leaped from the coalhouse and run toward the Daly walk the instant the door started opening.

The Dollmaker Harriette Arnow 1954