Colliery

Examples

• A colliery, remarks Uncle, with a twinkle of the eye. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• After he had worked for three years at Willington he was induced to take the position of brakesman of the engine at the West Moor Colliery at Killingworth. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Among them was the owner of a colliery in the north named Blackett, who built a number of engines for propelling coal-cars and used them at his mines. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The coal had to be hauled from the pit of the colliery to the shipping place. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Stephenson was now very well regarded at the colliery for the improvements he had made there. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Stephenson had letters to Mr. Pease, and after a talk with him, persuaded him to go to the Killingworth Colliery and see his locomotives. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The second locomotive was proving so efficient at the Killingworth Colliery that friends of the inventor urged him to look into the possible use of steam in traveling on the common roads. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The boy was employed at the colliery, and was rapidly learning the business under the skilful charge of his father. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The engines that Mr. Blackett had built, using Trevethick’s model as a basis, were working daily near the Killingworth Colliery, and Stephenson frequently went over to see them. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• For some time it was used daily at the colliery. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• He looked at Beldover, at Selby, at Whatmore, at Lethley Bank, the great colliery villages which depended entirely on his mines. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• I can imagine it--I am Mrs Colliery-Manager Crich--I am Mrs Member-of-Parliament Roddice. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• There they found the gate shut, because the colliery train was rumbling nearer. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• He hated remorselessly the circumstances of his own life, so much that he never really saw Beldover and the colliery valley. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Gudrun, new from her life in Chelsea and Sussex, shrank cruelly from this amorphous ugliness of a small colliery town in the Midlands. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• A bold attempt was made at Birmingham, in 1826, to bring gas from the collieries, at a distance of ten miles from the town. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• It took into account the collieries, mines, canals, marshes, fens, and the varieties of soil in relation to the substrata. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• In forming the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, the guage of the railways in the collieries was adopted, and the width between the rails was made 4 feet 8? inches. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• George Stephenson had worked out a somewhat similar safety-lamp at about the same time, and his was used in the collieries around Newcastle. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.

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