charcoal-vender

Updated: June 20, 2025

But the long-drawn, monotonous, nasal cry of the charcoal-vender who has not heard it? "Cha-r-coa'! Cha-r-coa'!" is more cheerful than the demoniac laughter of the desperate galley-slaves, and his bell sounds musically when we hear it and think of theirs.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 19, May, 1859