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Examples
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He staked those coal-mines on the Porcupine a dozen years ago.
Flush of Gold 2010
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It has always been so, from the time of the first pre-human anthropoid crossing a mountain-divide in quest of better berry - bushes beyond, down to the latest Slovak, arriving on our shores to-day, to go to work in the coal-mines of Pennsylvania.
THE HUMAN DRIFT 2010
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In 1997, he voted to divert sales tax revenues into a fund to help reopen closed coal-mines.
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Pictou may be a flourishing town some day: it has extensive coal-mines; one seam of coal is said to be thirty feet thick.
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We have said over and over again that we support the nationalization of the coal-mines, not as a general example of Distribution but as a common-sense admission of an exception.
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For want of proper precautions, his coal-mines filled with water: the government flung his contract of damaged beef upon his hands: and for his coach-horses, every mail proprietor in the kingdom knew that he lost more horses than any man in the country, from underfeeding and buying cheap.
Vanity Fair 2006
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Before breakfast, a walk with Sir Pitt and his spud; after breakfast studies (such as they are) in the schoolroom; after schoolroom, reading and writing about lawyers, leases, coal-mines, canals, with Sir Pitt (whose secretary I am become); after dinner,
Vanity Fair 2006
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Maybe you remember seeing photos of little boys in coal-mines and little girls working in cotton mills.
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Maybe you remember seeing photos of little boys in coal-mines and little girls working in cotton mills.
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The Sea and Air Ways Control evidently meant to take effective possession not only of all derelict ports, aerodromes, coal-mines, oil wells, power stations and mines, but to bring those in which a certain vitality still lingered into line with its schemes by hook or by crook, by persuasion or pressure.
The Shape of Things to Come Herbert George 2006
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