Sentence examples for pick coal from inspiring English sources

We won't pick coal off the road.

If you're too grand to pick coal off the road I'll put on my coat and go down the Dock Road.

It's hard to remember that the movie business was once considered the artistic equivalent of picking coal off the railroad tracks.

I'm not saying there haven't been exceptions, many many exceptions, crowds of exceptions like babushkas picking coal from the slag heap of the century.

My dad fought in the first world war, goes back into the mines, he was on the General Strike in 1926 and he got fined for picking coal on the tips.

In Harlan County, Kentucky, the part of this country I know best, the local economic sentiment is that you're either picking coal or cooking meth, and the effect of that on the political psychology of a place has been, I suspect, to weaken the Romney-Ryan appeal to hard economic numbers.

A crew member on the Capitola, which had docked to pick up coal, handed her a computer flash drive containing a video of a magic pipe.

Its eponymous villain, a "hog" who "owns the mountain" on which his workers pick for coal, is at once a larger-than-life satanic figure and an example of the banality of evil – someone who drinks too much and has to be carried home on a horse across the mountain.

Dad says, You shouldn't be picking up coal off the road like a common beggar.

Ahead of us, women in shawls and small children are picking up coal along the road.

Another category was disorderly conduct which included picking up coal from railroad tracks, throwing stones at railroad employees, and breaking down a fence.