mineshaft

• “The canary in the mineshaft is the music industry.”

  The Guardian: Author Don Tapscott on the growing influence of public participation

• “As a person who is by nature very direct and to the point, dating is a mystery trapped in a puzzle, tucked in a fireproof safe thrown down a mineshaft.”

  The Huffington Post: Juliet Jeske: Dating After Divorce In a City of Sluts

• “Precisely, why Greece is the canary in the mineshaft for Euro economies.”

  Matthew Yglesias » Is The Left in Crisis?

• “Reuters Workers prepare the site of the second mineshaft to be sunk at Oyu Tolgoi in the South Gobi desert in Mongolia in this November 2007 photo.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Working to Lure Resource Firms

• “Eight other miners were killed when a "rock burst" ripped through a mineshaft in the city of Samenxia in Henan province, central China.”

  The Guardian: 45 Chinese coalminers freed after cave-in that killed eight

• “On Saturday state broadcaster CCTV showed rescuers with helmets and oxygen tanks carrying the workers out of the mineshaft to ambulances.”

  The Guardian: 45 Chinese coalminers freed after cave-in that killed eight

• “In the crudest version of the story, the ñaqak lies in wait on country roads to kill unwary travellers, hastens them back to a cave or mineshaft, and hangs them on hooks upside-down, catching their fat in receptacles.”

  Archive 2009-11-01

• “It's not that there aren't other great types of fiction -- I love Jorge Luis Borges and Philip K Dick, and it's impossible to imagine either of them going down a mineshaft with a notebook.”

  The Huffington Post: Please, Dear Novelists - Get Real

• “My friend Amy Wilson used to tell a story when fundraising for her film about climate change used to tell the story of the youth whose bus was kidnapped and driven into a mineshaft.”

  The Huffington Post: Ingredients for earth day: 1 cup listening to the enemy, 2 teaspoons of radical love, 3 pounds of self reliance

• “His cloak is the color of a mineshaft at midnight, untouched by the wind whipping through the stony corridors.”

  Fictionaut: I'm Writing

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