If a man can climb, and feels himself encouraged to climb, from a coalpit to the highest position for which he is fitted, he can well afford to be indifferent what name is given to the government under which he lives.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American] Reference

Charm Thai restaurant shines like a diamond in a coalpit.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Jeremiah Dixon, the son of a collier discovered in a coalpit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales of the Chesapeake] Reference

The next thing he remembered was standing on the edge of the shaft of a deserted coalpit, ready to cast himself down.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thomas Wingfold, Curate] Reference

When Lord Elcho addressed the East Lothian colliers, he named several men who had raised themselves from the coalpit; and first of all he referred to Mr. Macdonald, member for Stafford.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thrift] Reference

When a coalpit gets blocked up by some explosion, no brave rescuing party will venture to descend into the lowest depths of the poisonous darkness until some ventilation has been restored.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John] Reference

The mummers gaped and wondered at the arsenic green sides of the wolds, striped with rough stone walls or blackened with an occasional coalpit, the ridges fringed with trees blown thin by sea-breezes.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Mummer's Wife] Reference

The coalpit worker, the steel puddler. and those who do many maintenance jobs on an assembly line can surrender to self-controlled electronic machines the hazards and dullness of backbreaking menial work.    From Wordnik.com.  [Modern Mechanix] Reference

Already he anticipated an appeal, and considered what he would give, for it did not matter whether it was a coalpit explosion in Lanarkshire or a loss of fishing-boats in the Moray Firth, if widows needed help the Doctor's guinea was on its way within four-and-twenty hours.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers] Reference

"a coalpit a picturesque object! what, what, what, Yorkshire coalpits picturesque!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Evolution of an English Town] Reference

Bantock Burden coalpit.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Days of the Comet] Reference

Paul Waugh enjoys watching Tory MP James Clappison skewer Peter Mandelson East Anglian Daily Times: John Gummer vows to stand again in Suffolk Coastal at the next general election Daily Mail: Police investigate Tory councillor over "race hate" comments about gipsies The Wilted Rose wants more questions asked about Harriet Harman's past James Kirkup at Three Line Whip notes that a minister has now publicly asked for Gordon Brown to say the S-word Sam Coates at Red Box has some intriguing thoughts on what the Lib Dems could do if there is a hung parliament Andrew Sparrow notes that Norman Tebbit has now said that the scale of the 1980s coalpit closures "went too far".    From Wordnik.com.  [British Blogs] Reference