"Colliery" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Wednesday.—Several Colliery Owners, in despair, descend into their own mines for the purpose of trying to raise some coal themselves, but their employes, declining to assist in hauling them up again, they are left to their fate, and nothing ...
— Punch, or, the London Charivari, Volume 98, March 8, 1890. • Various
... Earlshill Colliery, possession of which was recovered on 4th of April last, considerable progress had been made in sinking two engine-pits, one of which was sunk forty-four yards, the other twenty-six yards, on the 20th October, when the steward in charge of the works, Martin Morris, ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 367, May 1846 • Various |
