Examples
“My boys, never work in the mines' yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = '\'My boys, never work in the mines\' '; yahooBuzzArticleSummary =' Article: Just after Powell Harmon implored his family to love Jesus, he scrawled, My boys, never work in the mines.”
“In one game, my son's avatar reached an untimely death, and exploded in "mines" planted by other team members (who play virtually from around the world).”
“Just how long she can go before working in the mines is uncertain.”
“Unless the geologic situation of Welsh coal mines is so different than that of West Virginian coal mines that the two are dug and operated in completely distinct ways.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » The Supreme Court’s Entrance, Justice Breyer, and Foreign Law
“After high school, Flannigan trained as an S2 Reconnaissance officer for the Marines, specializing in mines, booby traps, camouflage and stealth movement.”
“In My Sister, My Love: The Intimate Story of Skyler Rampike, the incomparable Oates once again mines the depths of the sinister yet comic malaise at the heart of our contemporary culture.”
“Like canaries in mines -- providing early warnings -- an increasing number of progressives reacted to politically toxic gases.”
The Huffington Post: Norman Solomon: Progressive Canaries in a Political Mine
“Next morning, Jacob Welse, for all of the Company and his millions in mines, chopped up the day's supply of firewood, lighted a cigar, and went down the island in search of Baron Courbertin.”
“The men worked in mines, some were crushed due to cave-ins, in Japan many died of pneumonia due to improper clothing, not warm enough in winter with summer clothes, and starvation.”
“Also you are not a relaible messenger - especially pulling quote-mines from a book that doesn't have any bearing on ID.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘mines’.
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outcasts
Words that people on Twitter don't think are words.
I wrote a little script that runs every day. It searches the Twitter API for tweets containing the words, "is not a word". Each (non...unfollow, suppose-ably, qirl, darkskin, haz, stoints, uglyer, boringest, fustrating, linx, yolo, excapes and 22617 more...
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Underwaterritory
When you're underwater, what do you see or experience? Let's dive...
(Here's a cute little related list called Fishful Thinking...)underwater, curglaff, submarine, underwater habitat, diving bell, paravane, bottom trawling, sediment traps, torpedo, mines, shipwreck, sonar and 214 more...
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Rubbies
Words and things that rub me wrong
eclectic, canon, flesh, irregardless, conversate, can't, mandatory, war on christmas, male bonding, pissa, parochial, infallible and 98 more...
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Scriptie: The Fellowship of the Ring
the world is changed, much that once wa..., great rings, immortal, dwarf lords, miners, craftsmen, three, seven, nine, deceived, dark lord and 216 more...
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Tristram Shandy, Chapter 15
Some words following upon each other's succession in a legal contract in this book I've just started.
let, suit, trouble, disturbance, molestation, discharge, hindrance, forfeiture, eviction, vexation, interruption, incumbrance and 73 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for mines.
abraxaszugzwang as in, "that sangwich is mines." Jan 31, 2007