coal

One of the seconds went for a lantern in a coal-barge near, and by its light they examined the weapons.

And as bees cannot live when their stings are broken that was the end of the black bees, and they lay scattered thick about the Woodman, like little heaps of fine coal.

The Wicked Witch was so angry when she saw her black bees in little heaps like fine coal that she stamped her foot and tore her hair and gnashed her teeth.

I have heard him talk of the coal and iron districts.