When year-old Ben graduated from puppy classes, he was a gorgeous animal with a shiny coal-black pelt, orange-flecked brown eyes and a feathery tail.
Mr. Clooney's eyes glisten through the gloom like shiny black coals studded into a craggy twilit landscape.
I'm a diamond in the rough, a shiny piece of coal Tryin' to reach my goal.
Some have matt surfaces, black as soot, some are brilliantly shiny, glistening like coal or butter or milk.
I'm also amazed by the tall piles of glistening rock; coal has a reputation as a filthy fuel, but in its raw state, it is shiny and pitch-black lovely.
Shiny and black like coal, with a brilliant orange fringe around its tail, the lobster is a majestic creature close up, and quite fierce-looking, too.
In a big shiny car we'd head down the road To sing for the miners who brought out the coal Many a time I slept on the floorboard cold On a quilt with my little sister The Wildwood Rose.
I heard through the grapevine last week that someone had spotted an Apple Mac in Byker, but apparently it was just coal in a shiny white box.
But not everything will be business as usual the day after Thanksgiving, as retailer policies will greet consumers with a mixture of shiny gifts and lumps of coal.
Many of the pieces in the CAPC storerooms are installations that change from one presentation to the next, as in a disarmingly simple pyramid of shiny iridescent pieces of broken coal set on a flat white base.
What's louder than a lump of coal, and much, much shinier?
