To go down to Milton House, the mystery place, at night, and get down the coalhole!. From Wordnik.com. [The Mystery of the Secret Room]
I waited and waited inside that coal-hole for you to come back with George - and when you didn't, I left the coalhole and got into the house. From Wordnik.com. [Five Have Plenty Of Fun]
Now, the country -- you're like in a coalhole for the matter o 'that. From Wordnik.com. [Rhoda Fleming — Complete] Reference
She in the kitchen, I in the coalhole or potato patch, 'twill be all one. From Wordnik.com. [In a Green Shade A Country Commentary] Reference
"He's asleep near the coalhole," replied Clifton, "and if anybody wants ----". From Wordnik.com. [The English at the North Pole Part I of the Adventures of Captain Hatteras] Reference
'Who is in the coalhole, father?' asked Fergus, with a face whose gravity showed wonderful strength of muscle. From Wordnik.com. [The Tithe-Proctor The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two] Reference
And yet he failed in one instance to feel the edge of an open coalhole, and his right leg slipped down into it. From Wordnik.com. [Raspberry Jam] Reference
After an hour or so of that, I gets up and sits by the open window; but as there ain't any moon or any street lights, it's like starin 'down a coalhole. From Wordnik.com. [Torchy] Reference
Next, behind a low dirty door in the S. wall, is the coalhole, then the high dresser, and then the door to the narrow front passage, beneath the ceiling of which are lodged masts, spars and sails. From Wordnik.com. [A Poor Man's House] Reference
The body is covered with a rough coating of white, gray, and brown hair, so intermixed and rough, that it makes the animal look as if it had been wet and then drawn through a coalhole or ash-heap. From Wordnik.com. [The Hive of "The Bee-Hunter," A Repository of Sketches, Including Peculiar American Character, Scenery, and Rural Sports] Reference
"In perfect splendour is the creature put up, and I with a bedroom like a coalhole and such drawing-rooms as you see each time you enter the house!" she broke forth spitefully one day when she forgot herself. From Wordnik.com. [The Head of the House of Coombe] Reference
The press was immediately pushed into a closet behind the bed; the types were flung into the coalhole, and covered with cinders: the compositor disappeared through a trapdoor in the roof, and made off over the tiles of the neighbouring houses. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3] Reference
Old Mappy Tantrum stepped to the coalhole. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of the Jazz Age] Reference
Some one - some one was coming down the coalhole!. From Wordnik.com. [The Mystery of the Secret Room]
"That's precisely what I am coming to," replied Alick; "the fact was that the martial magistrate, who, I believe in my soul, lay shivering with terror on his bed the whole previous part of the night, on hearing our dialogue with the Whiteboys, and the report of the fire-arms, altogether disappeared, and it was not until two or three searches had been made for him, that he was discovered squatted three double in the coalhole. From Wordnik.com. [The Tithe-Proctor The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two] Reference
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