"Coal scuttle" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... good, my sweet little Johnnie," she assured her daughter, knocking her corncob pipe over the coal scuttle ...
— Tramping on Life - An Autobiographical Narrative • Harry Kemp
... with a north light, plain old furniture, but not very old—not ostensibly ancient, somewhere about 1790 say—and this inherited and not purchased; Flamma cared not one atom for furniture, itself, old or new; dusty books everywhere, under the table, on the mantelpiece, beside the coal scuttle; heaps on chairs, quartos on the sofa, crowds more in his bedroom, besides the two bookcases and drawers; odd books most of them, Cornelius Agrippa, Le Petit Albert, French illustrated works, editions of Faust, music, for Flamma was fond of his ...
— Amaryllis at the Fair • Richard Jefferies |
