The population consists chiefly of colliers employed in the mines of the parish.    From LearnThat.org.  [www.yourdictionary.com]

Macarthur Coal Ltd, raising the ante in the battle for the collier which is now at the centre of three takeover bids.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest News - Yahoo!7 News] Reference

Ordinarily she was a collier, or carried iron ore.    From Wordnik.com.  [Five Months on a German Raider Being the Adventures of an Englishman Captured by the 'Wolf'] Reference

The sea voyage, even in a dirty collier, was a delight.    From Wordnik.com.  [With Marlborough to Malplaquet A Story of the Reign of Queen Anne] Reference

"Ah niver 'eerd tell on' im," the collier answered slowly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heavenly Twins] Reference

Harwich, attempted to press the men engaged in re-paying a collier.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore] Reference

When the chime rang out for the third time, the young collier spoke.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heavenly Twins] Reference

Ambulance is a short way west of Sedd-el-Bahr, landing in the collier.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Incomparable 29th and the "River Clyde"] Reference

So the collier with his daughter and the minstrel are taken to prison.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference

Sea Fleet seizes Wilson liner Castro and a collier; fleets assemble in.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol 1, Issue 4, January 23, 1915] Reference

Such things brought home to every collier the realities of the situation.    From Wordnik.com.  [With Marlborough to Malplaquet A Story of the Reign of Queen Anne] Reference

Fairburn, on his return from London in his collier, made a great announcement.    From Wordnik.com.  [With Marlborough to Malplaquet A Story of the Reign of Queen Anne] Reference

Robert Reid, aged forty-six at his death, had been a collier since his boyhood.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Investigation into the Nature of Black Phthisis or Ulceration Induced by Carbonaceous Accumulation in the Lungs of Coal Miners] Reference

The vessel was a collier bound for London, and she sailed with the morning tide.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales from Many Sources Vol. V] Reference

Mat Morgan says our manager was only a poor collier lad once, and look at him now.    From Wordnik.com.  [Parables from Flowers] Reference

At the same moment Ratto, the collier, recognizes and claims Silvana as his daughter.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference

The son of the captain of a Newcastle collier, Wilson had grown up a dare-devil sailor boy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of Missionary Heroes] Reference

Stephenson, the inventor of the locomotive engine, was a common collier working in the mines.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life and Conduct] Reference

The effects of such a morbid structure upon the collier population in general is very marked.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Investigation into the Nature of Black Phthisis or Ulceration Induced by Carbonaceous Accumulation in the Lungs of Coal Miners] Reference

At first it was intended that he should go out in a collier, but that arrangement was altered.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of General Gordon] Reference

The dullest Welsh "copper-man," or collier, or wild farm cultivator, could not miss the meaning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843] Reference

The collier lad in the bow of the barge felt something of the fascination of the river that day.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heavenly Twins] Reference

Repairs were now more than ever necessary, and the poor battered collier was taken into the "Endeavour" river.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference

On his return to his native country, he was engaged for a short time before his death as a collier at Dalkeith.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Investigation into the Nature of Black Phthisis or Ulceration Induced by Carbonaceous Accumulation in the Lungs of Coal Miners] Reference

Thousands of anxious eyes peered through the darkness as they watched the old collier disappear into the harbor.    From Wordnik.com.  [The True Citizen, How to Become One] Reference

Having missed the fortnightly mail-boat I made the passage from Chefoo in a small German collier, and on arrival at.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life and sport in China Second Edition] Reference

His available force consisted of four protected cruisers, two gunboats, a revenue cutter, a collier and a supply ship.    From Wordnik.com.  [The United States Since the Civil War] Reference

I have never known one collier in many hundreds, who, even in his usual health, was not, as he expressed it, more or less.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Investigation into the Nature of Black Phthisis or Ulceration Induced by Carbonaceous Accumulation in the Lungs of Coal Miners] Reference

As she had thus constituted herself a tender or collier to the Geier, she was accorded the same treatment and interned on Nov. 7.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915] Reference

He was a collier from his boyhood, and wrought during the greater part of his life at Penston colliery in the parish of Gladsmuir.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Investigation into the Nature of Black Phthisis or Ulceration Induced by Carbonaceous Accumulation in the Lungs of Coal Miners] Reference

The unfortunate collier is made drunk with wine, and during his sleep they take his daughter away to the castle of the old Rhinegrave.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference