In this year a six to eighteen feet wide lode of high grade copper ore was discovered.    From LearnThat.org.  [www.yourdictionary.com]

Under this theory, the lode was the property, and the surface became a mere easement.    From Wordnik.com.  [California Romantic and Resourceful; : a plea for the collection, preservation and diffusion of information relating to Pacific coast history] Reference

For some reason, I thought "lode" would be "load", that it was one word rather than two, and that the meaning implied "huge".    From Wordnik.com.  [Mother lode] Reference

If it raynes tihs afturnoon, ai nawt goin 2 tak a lode of stuff 2 parints’ howse.    From Wordnik.com.  [going to bed without diner - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference

About two-thirds of the world's tin is obtained from placers and one-third from vein or "lode" deposits.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Economic Aspect of Geology] Reference

Mr. H---- "(the same who had advised us relative to the" lode ").    From Wordnik.com.  [Left on Labrador or, The cruise of the Schooner-yacht 'Curlew.' as Recorded by 'Wash.'] Reference

"You really think Dad hit a bonanza lode out there?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Gold in the Sky] Reference

Rockies (+) Mile-high attendance as baseball bits mother lode.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fall Classic Edition] Reference

There was no proof to uncover and no bonanza lode for you to find.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gold in the Sky] Reference

Silver seldom is found in a lode extending with any great regularity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek] Reference

They are almost entirely supported by the gold which the lode supplies.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Western United States A Geographical Reader] Reference

  If he was having the DTs, he'd hit the mother-lode of hallucinations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Willy Takes the Night Train to Heaven] Reference

There's lots of sunshine, potential mother lode of renewable green energy.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Renewable Energy Debate Heats Up In The Mojave] Reference

But if these new approaches pan out, they could yield a mother lode of relief.    From Wordnik.com.  [An End To The Misery?] Reference

And that's where he found a new mother lode of money, among rising Asian-Americans.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gore In The Balance] Reference

I'm being laughed at by my friends, "he continued," because I'm searching for the mother lode.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Call of the Beaver Patrol or, A Break in the Glacier] Reference

Festival planners miss no opportunity to mark a musical anniversary, and 1999 is a mother lode.    From Wordnik.com.  [Noteworthy] Reference

The new American mother lode is there for Republicans, too, if only they will learn to mine it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thinking Of Family Values] Reference

Jenkins's family came to the mother-lode town of Coulterville during the gold rush of the 1850s.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fallen Comrades] Reference

"If I hadn't that hunch to sit down here, we wouldn't have found the mother lode in a blue moon.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Ted Strong in Montana With Lariat and Spur] Reference

The mine was a dead one up to a few months back, when that lucky-find lode was struck by accident.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Saddle Boys in the Grand Canyon or The Hermit of the Cave] Reference

I've mined a lode of experience from my parents and my children, old friends and new acquaintances.    From Wordnik.com.  [Writer Wednesday: The Writer's Brain Is Soup And 10 Unbreakable Research Rules] Reference

Get the phone number of the local Area Agency on Aging (AAA), which is a mother lode of good advice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old, Sick And Far Away] Reference

He'd either have made a deal with Tawney or let him hijack the lode, if that was all there was to it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gold in the Sky] Reference

For the independent miner, the only hope was the Big Strike, the single lode that could make him rich.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gold in the Sky] Reference

Though Humala's background is quite different, he's mining the same mother lode of simmering resentment.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Return of the Caudillo] Reference

Though I now know that we had somehow tapped into the mother lode of karma, I didn't have a glimmer back then.    From Wordnik.com.  [Starr Gazing: Owning the Season] Reference

He had traced down the outcrop of the lode, which on the surface looked poor enough, to a point near the river.    From Wordnik.com.  [Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek] Reference

As the young engineer predicted, the lode fell away to its original width, and soon ceased to carry visible gold.    From Wordnik.com.  [Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek] Reference

And then, there's the mother lode of all delegate questions: What are Super Delegates, and what makes them so super?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Delegates Count, but How do you Count Them?] Reference

Developers have offered him a mother lode of cash to split up the property, and several former neighbors have cashed in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ranching The Nouvelle West] Reference

Here another lode intersected it, and believing this to be the richest point, he began with four comrades to sink a shaft.    From Wordnik.com.  [Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek] Reference

Now, they drove right and left along the course of the lode, and found that in both directions the walls were coming closer together.    From Wordnik.com.  [Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek] Reference

But always there was the lure of the Big Strike, the lode of almost-pure metal that could bring a fortune back to the man who found it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gold in the Sky] Reference

"We've struck the lode at last, mister, and run slick inter a bonanza if ever they were one; may I never see Frisco again, if we haven't!".    From Wordnik.com.  [Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek] Reference