Miner

Examples

• The serpent was on the watch, the train was laid, the mine was preparing, the sapper and miner was at work. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Was a miner a good miner? D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• From the early days when growing industry demanded more coal, inventors have been busy devising all sorts of safety appliances for the miner. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• If the mine be not wrought out, the strength and capacity of the miner become necessarily exhausted. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• The safety-lamp had been given to the miner, the caisson to the bridge-builder, the anti-friction metal to the mechanic for bearings. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• It seems fitting that Sir Humphry Davy should be popularly remembered for his invention of the miner's safety-lamp. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• It is the dreaded after-damp of the miner. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The miner must eat; the farmer, indeed, can live without the ounce of silver, and so, perhaps, will have some advantage in settling the price. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• A miner's lamp was therefore constructed with wire gauze about the flame to admit air for combustion. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Some of the salt mines in Poland are so extensive that it is said some of the miners spend all of their lives in them, never coming to the surface of the earth. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• After that came a long newspaper story about how a miners' camp had been attacked by Apache Indians, and there was my Frank's name among the killed. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• As miners they had their being, he had his being as director. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The result was his perfection of a lamp that would furnish the miners with sufficient light and yet preclude risk of exploding fire-damp. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• In 1812 a terrible explosion occurred in a leading English mine, and caused the death of almost a hundred miners. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• It was not grasped very definitely by the miners, though they were sore enough. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The shops were blazing and packed with women, in the streets were men, mostly men, miners of all ages. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The railway workers, the miners, the doctors, the teachers, the retail merchants would have direct representation in the Interessenvertrag. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Stephenson now changed his position from that of an employee of coal-owners to that of employer of many miners himself. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Seething masses of miners met daily, carried away by a new religious impulse. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The working of the pits was thoroughly changed, all the control was taken out of the hands of the miners, the butty system was abolished. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• And the miners, in those days, finding themselves richer than they might have expected, felt glad and triumphant. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Those who have visited mines, and have gone into the heart of the underground labyrinth, know how difficult it is for fresh air to make its way to the miners. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Among many activities he invented the safety-lamp, the object of which was to protect miners from the perils of exploding fire-damp. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• But man is never satisfied, and so the miners, from gratitude to their owners, passed on to murmuring. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .

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