COAL in Classic Quotes

Simple words can express big ideas - learn how great writers to make beautiful sentences with common words.
Quotes from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
Free Online Vocabulary Test
K12, SAT, GRE, IELTS, TOEFL
 Search Panel
Word:
You may input your word or phrase.
Author:
Book:
 
Stems:
If search object is a contraction or phrase, it'll be ignored.
Sort by:
Each search starts from the first page. Its result is limited to the first 17 sentences. If you upgrade to a VIP account, you will see up to 500 sentences for one search.
Common Search Words
 Current Search - coal in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
1  Someone had put coal on and he heard voices.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 1
2  The mind in that mysterious instant Shelley likened beautifully to a fading coal.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 5
3  The boy that held the censer had swung it lifted by the middle chain to keep the coals lighting.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 1
4  And the boy who came in from the street, stamping crookedly under his stone of coal, heard her words.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 2
5  He produced four candle-butts from the side-pockets of his soutane and placed them deftly among the coals and twisted papers.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 5
6  He sat listening to the words and following the ways of adventure that lay open in the coals, arches and vaults and winding galleries and jagged caverns.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 2
7  And then when all were vested he had stood holding out the boat to the rector and the rector had put a spoonful of incense in it and it had hissed on the red coals.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 1
8  Saint Catherine of Siena once saw a devil and she has written that, rather than look again for one single instant on such a frightful monster, she would prefer to walk until the end of her life along a track of red coals.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 3