Mine shafts were up to thirty feet deep and necessitated the use of chalk lamps fuelled by animal fat with wicks of moss.
"Our Legal Heritage, 4th Ed."
S. A. Reilly
It was a compound of infinite ingenuity, with very little poetical imagination-of gigantic strength, with a propensity to incessant trifling-of passionate purpose, with the clearest and coldest expression, as though a furnace were fuelled with snow.
"Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Vol. 3"
George Gilfillan
With light hearts, smiling faces, and cheerful shouts, the harvest labourers and their wives and children, carrying green boughs, a sheaf of wheat, and rude flags, formed a glad procession to the farmer's house, where they found the fuelled chimney blazing wide, and "the strong table groaning beneath the smoking sirloin."
"English Villages"
P. H. Ditchfield