My coalman is a haughty prince.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, January 22, 1919] Reference

"We will blame the coalman," Sophia said cheerfully.    From Wordnik.com.  [Irresistible]

Your washerwoman is a lady, and your coalman a Chesterfield.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876] Reference

This morning there had been some problem with the coalman, who had tried to deliver enough coal for a winter month when it was already April.    From Wordnik.com.  [Irresistible]

If Samuel had not yelled out 'Oi!' quite so loud when the coalman come and tried to pull one over on him, ma'am, I would not have dropped the cup.    From Wordnik.com.  [Irresistible]

In the meantime, Avni approached the engine car and ordered the engineer and the coalman to get out and lie on the ground as far as possible from the train.    From Wordnik.com.  [Irgun Zeva'i Le'ummi (I.Z.L.).] Reference

A coalman in Croydon spoke with particular personal experience.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home | Mail Online] Reference

He was the odd job man in queens buildings and before that was a coalman.    From Wordnik.com.  [London SE1 community website] Reference

A tailor, hatter and barber made sure he was well presented, while a chimney sweep and a coalman kept his fire going.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reuters: Top News] Reference

Then he goes on to list some of the others, including the coalman, the milkman, the knife-grinder, the chair-mender, the rag and bone man.    From Wordnik.com.  [Londonist] Reference

With most things you bought it was relatively easy to know if you had been diddled but with coal deliveries it was different and our coalman didn't have the best of reputations.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

When a light was brought, and he saw my black face and garb of a coalman, he experienced such an increase of terror, that I really believe he imagined himself in the devil's clutches.    From Wordnik.com.  [The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831] Reference

At one place he carried on the business of greengrocer and small-coalman; in another, he was carpenter, undertaker, and lender of money to the poor; finally, he was a lodging-house keeper in the Oxford or Tyburn.    From Wordnik.com.  [Catherine: a story] Reference

At one place he carried on the business of greengrocer and small-coalman; in another, he was carpenter, undertaker, and lender of money to the poor; finally, he was a lodging-house keeper in the Oxford or Tyburn Road; but continued to exercise the last-named charitable profession.    From Wordnik.com.  [Catherine: a Story] Reference

I kept the yacht under a press, according to orders, and the driving of her close-hauled, every luff trembling and the foam to leeward as high as the rail, fairly smothered the vessel forward; whilst as to her movements, it was dreary and aching enough, I can tell you, the wind sweeping out of clouds of spray forward and splitting with shrieks upon the ropes, and the canvas soaking up the damp till every stretch might have been owned for the matter of color by a coalman.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Luck at Last] Reference

"The coalman seen her have it," said Mr. Peters.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Voice of the City: Further Stories of the Four Million] Reference

Stay here and watch that coalman, the sly devil!.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

"Yes, and as a coalman.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Frozen Pirate] Reference