two-and-twenty-shilling-coal

Updated: June 21, 2025

Bartholomew; why erected here I can't think, as St. Bartholomew is in Smithfield; we had a glimpse of Billingsgate, and of the Mansion House, where we saw the two-and-twenty-shilling-coal smoke coming out of the chimneys, and were landed at the Custom House in safety.

William Makepeace Thackeray - Burlesques