coaly

He was so coaly black that even the light of a full moon was not sufficient to reveal him.

The sky was coaly black in the west, sapphire and peach in the east.

It was long before, conscious of the increasing chill and the coaly darkness, I went fumbling about the room to make a light.

Most coals and coaly shales are generally Type 3 source rocks.

I was covered with coaly mud--knees, elbows, shoulders, back.

I followed the direction of his coaly gaze and saw a tall, stoop shouldered man stalking among the tombstones.

The sky here is dead white from thick upwellings of steam and sulfurous fumes, except where the fumes are coaly black.

Claystones and siltstones containing finely dispersed coaly matter are considered to be good sources - besides many coal seams.

Nearer, I distinguished the green slime of ditches mixing with the pale drab of dried clay and shiny, coaly patches.

Mr Pancks's short and sharp rejoinder, confirmed by the sudden outstretching of his coaly hand, was most expressive and convincing.

You can show Pancks bustling about, but you can't show him bustling about "like a little coaly tugboat."

The coaly veins in the water were varicose and more numerous than previously, and large sections of the sea were fearfully black to Dusty's eyes if to no other's.

Meh'Lindi's attitude to the Tormentum was impassive, inscrutable - while the corridors and crypts reminded Grimm nostalgically of mine workings and coaly caverns.

At the end of that avenue rose the coaly tiers of the palace itself: a great glooming glass-petalled ziggurat with telescoping spires from which vast vitrodur umbrellas unfolded, interlocking.

As most reflectance data were obtained from coal seams or coaly matter of the Westphalian, extrapolations of the measured values to the top Carboniferous were necessary, sometimes over vertical distances of several hundred meters.

The presence of Coal Measures and well-developed coaly intervals on the southern margins of the Southern North Sea Basin is known from an examination of available well data and recently acquired seismic data.

In the Lower Saxony tectogene, the mean effective porosity of reservoir rocks diminishes to less than 5% when the rank of coaly matter reaches values of more than 2.5% Rm vitrinite reflectance (Bartenstein, M. and R. Teichmüller 1971, plate 1).

The Crescent, running die-straight east-west by the railway line, its embankments, its electric train stanchions, was, at half past seven at night, a contest between the homely smell of fried, rationed chops escaping the pore of the houses on the left, and the sintered, coaly metallic-electric aroma of rail lines to the right.