He proposed to run the colliery for their benefit. From Wordnik.com. [With Marlborough to Malplaquet A Story of the Reign of Queen Anne] Reference
Ned Brierley was appointed manager of a colliery in. From Wordnik.com. [Frank Oldfield Lost and Found] Reference
You're old enough, and know the colliery well enough. From Wordnik.com. [Derrick Sterling A Story of the Mines] Reference
They were compelled to go to him by the rules of the colliery. From Wordnik.com. [Derrick Sterling A Story of the Mines] Reference
He owned a large colliery and employed many men and not a few ships. From Wordnik.com. [With Marlborough to Malplaquet A Story of the Reign of Queen Anne] Reference
The tale of colliery war profits is continued by the report of North's. From Wordnik.com. [The World in Chains Some Aspects of War and Trade] Reference
And indeed the Blackett colliery did at that time seem to be under a cloud. From Wordnik.com. [With Marlborough to Malplaquet A Story of the Reign of Queen Anne] Reference
The work put into the cellars of the colliery houses here was quite extraordinary. From Wordnik.com. [The Sherwood Foresters in the Great War 1914 - 1919 History of the 1/8th Battalion] Reference
In fact, the first railway line of the district ran between Johannesburg and a colliery. From Wordnik.com. [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 1 (of 6) From the Foundation of Cape Colony to the Boer Ultimatum of 9th Oct. 1899] Reference
George, who was in charge in the absence of his father, inquired of the old overlooker of the colliery. From Wordnik.com. [With Marlborough to Malplaquet A Story of the Reign of Queen Anne] Reference
A very striking instance of this occurred, a few years ago, at the colliery of the Messrs Cadell of Tranent. From Wordnik.com. [An Investigation into the Nature of Black Phthisis or Ulceration Induced by Carbonaceous Accumulation in the Lungs of Coal Miners] Reference
So the great colliery disaster was happily ended, and in Raven Brook village great sorrow was turned to great joy. From Wordnik.com. [Derrick Sterling A Story of the Mines] Reference
The old workings ran from them through the mountain, and under this valley in which the present colliery was located. From Wordnik.com. [Derrick Sterling A Story of the Mines] Reference
I heard from him a while since as his squire wants a steady man to overlook a small colliery as he's got on his estate. From Wordnik.com. [Frank Oldfield Lost and Found] Reference
The jubilant colliery owner and his merry men took care to pass the Fairburn pit, with frantic cheerings and hallooings. From Wordnik.com. [With Marlborough to Malplaquet A Story of the Reign of Queen Anne] Reference
Had they succeeded the colliery would have been closed, and all hands thrown out of work for an indefinite length of time. From Wordnik.com. [Derrick Sterling A Story of the Mines] 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
Delaware and Hudson "slope" colliery in North Scranton were compelled to shut down by reason of the water flooding the engine rooms. From Wordnik.com. [The True Story of Our National Calamity of Flood, Fire and Tornado] Reference
Under Fairburn's management the colliery had made a clear profit of five thousand odd pounds in the course of a single year's working. From Wordnik.com. [With Marlborough to Malplaquet A Story of the Reign of Queen Anne] Reference
At Kehley Run colliery the water main that supplies the boilers with water was washed away and the colliery was compelled to shut down. From Wordnik.com. [The True Story of Our National Calamity of Flood, Fire and Tornado] Reference
Shortly before this, the Widow Cunningham had received the news that her poor boy had been killed in a colliery accident in Pennsylvania. From Wordnik.com. [Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 2, February 1886] Reference
It were all arranged with our John as we should be at liberty to come to his cottage here till the place were ready for me at the colliery. From Wordnik.com. [Frank Oldfield Lost and Found] Reference
His father was a very humble workman, who filled the position of fireman of the pumping-engine in use at the colliery, at three dollars a week. From Wordnik.com. [Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail] Reference
"A work of this extremely valuable character deserves to be made widely known amongst colliery managers and mining engineers at home and abroad.". From Wordnik.com. [The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student] Reference
He had also been noticed by the superintendent of the colliery, and promised a place in the mine as soon as a vacancy should occur that he could fill. From Wordnik.com. [Derrick Sterling A Story of the Mines] Reference
His first opportunity to show his superiority was when an expensive pump had been put in the colliery, and utterly failed to do the work required of it. From Wordnik.com. [Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail] Reference
Now I want you to take my place, act as guide to the ladies, and show them all the sights of interest about the colliery, both above-ground and in the mine. From Wordnik.com. [Derrick Sterling A Story of the Mines] Reference
The house of the Heedmans was the end cottage of a long row, built for and occupied by the miners employed at the colliery that you might see in the distance. From Wordnik.com. [Charlie Scott or, There's Time Enough] Reference
He could not have been kinder to them if they had been his dear friends; and from that hour they ranked among his firmest supporters and adherents in the colliery. From Wordnik.com. [Derrick Sterling A Story of the Mines] Reference
Barry owes its seaport to the determination of a number of colliery owners to secure an alternative port to Cardiff, with an independent railway to it from the coalfields. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"] Reference
In 1805 he removed to Killingworth colliery, and about this time he was desirous of emigrating to the United States, but was unable to raise money for his outfit and passage. From Wordnik.com. [Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail] Reference
We also talked about what had happened after the strike, about the closure of the colliery in 1993 and the effect of that closure on the community and the people of Easington. From Wordnik.com. [No Redemption: David Peace on the legacy of the miners' strike] Reference
After all others had failed, the overseer, in despair, with but little expectation that anything could be accomplished by a raw colliery hand, employed him to attempt a remedy. From Wordnik.com. [Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail] Reference
Hall colliery, which lay two or three miles from Walsall, there had been an inrush of water from some old deserted workings near at hand, and twenty-two miners were imprisoned. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile] Reference
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