soft-coal

A second wave of strikes hit the soft-coal mines and the railroads.

C. North America, 1946-2000 2001

The soft-coal fields are so widely scattered that it has never been possible to combine all the producers so as to control prices by a single authority.

Monopolies and the People Charles Whiting Baker

Though I don't see how she could expect me to be clean when she has had a soft-coal fire burning in her grate all the evening, and that does make the chimney so black!

The Nursery, January 1877, Volume XXI, No. 1 A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers Various

Wood smoke smells good, but it is just as black as the soft-coal kind.

The Windy Hill 1922

Outside in the sunshine-flooded canyon, long lines of cars rolled down with their freight of soft-coal; coal which would go to the ends of the earth, to places the miner never heard of, turning the wheels of industry whose products the miner would never see.

King Coal : a Novel Upton Sinclair 1923

Indeed, throughout all the great soft-coal country, people who consider themselves selves comparatively poor may find this consolation: cleanliness has been added to the virtues and beatitudes that money can not buy.

Alice Adams 1921

Then over it all hang heavy clouds of soft-coal dust from trains and shovels, shifting down upon the black, white and mixed, and the enumerator alike; a dirty, noisy, perilous, enjoyable job.

Zone Policeman 88; a close range study of the Panama canal and its workers Harry Alverson Franck 1921

The room was very dark, lit only by the steady, comfortable glow of a soft-coal fire.

The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking James Branch Cabell 1918

She had taken a chair before the soft-coal fire and was staring at it rather moodily.

The Squirrel-Cage Dorothy Canfield Fisher 1918

The public school to which the Marshall children went as soon as they were old enough was like any one of ten thousand public schools -- a large, square, many-windowed, extravagantly ugly building, once red brick, but long ago darkened almost to black by soft-coal smoke.

The Bent Twig Dorothy Canfield Fisher 1918