"Everybody," as Dick remarked, "had a Coaly look."
"A Yacht Voyage Round England"
W.H.G. Kingston
I visited the spot in company with Mr. Wunsch in 1870, and saw that the trees with their roots, of which about fourteen had been observed, occur at two distinct levels in volcanic tuffs parallel to each other, and inclined at an angle of about 40 degrees, having between them beds of shale and Coaly matter seven feet thick.
"The Student's Elements of Geology"
Sir Charles Lyell
Rough pit-boys from the Coaly South, They sang, even in the cannon's mouth; Like Sunday's chapel, Monday's inn, The death-trap sounded with their din.
"Country Sentiment"
Robert Graves