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collier sentence examples

  • Some were drawers before, and are now become colliers.
  • It is inhabited principally by colliers, sailors, and fishermen.
  • The children are badly off at school; there is no appointed teacher - an old well-informed collier gives lessons to young ones.
  • Collier brigs from innumerable tyne coal staithes.
  • By the 1860s most coal carried to london came by steam colliers, with sailing vessels picking up the pieces.
  • Collier's daughter, innocent, sweet seventeen shall i tell you the story of nellie?
  • Collier named curtis as he walked on the bowling green.
  • It is one of a few small villages in the parish, chiefly occupied by colliers.
  • Young colliers begin work at six years of age " ( ibid.
  • Collier population were freed from their servitude.
  • As the sailing colliers tended to arrive en masse on a favorable wind, the river became clogged.
  • Colliers ' children, out of 150 now at an age for instruction, attend.
  • At the height of its production, coal was brought directly to wandsworth from newcastle on the gas works own steam colliers.
  • There are few colliers from other parts of the parish listed in the records at this time.
  • Collier fleet.
  • Colliers employed in the mines of the parish.
  • In those days it was a place of work with small colliers beaching themselves ( deliberately ) as the tide ebbed to off-load coal.
  • Collier ships were loaded in one week, including one from cardigan.
  • We have about 500 colliers working under this arrangement, with which they are quite satisfied.
  • Colliers boys sitting on the ground holding their safety lamps.

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