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Examples
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They put you into the salt-mines and work you till you die.
The Lost Poacher 2010
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I'm surprised he has time to do this since he labors hard in the salt-mines of education.
Giles Slade: Electronics Changes Books, Bookstores and Publishing for Christmas 2009 2010
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D'ye know, when I was a nipper I pictured salt-mines as hellish places where slaves with red-rimmed eyes waded knee-deep in the stuff.
Watershed 2010
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Antipas was able to distinguish the excavations of the salt-mines at the farther end of the Dead Sea, but the tents of the
Herodias 2003
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D'ye know, when I was a nipper I pictured salt-mines as hellish places where slaves with red-rimmed eyes waded knee-deep in the stuff.
Flashman And The Tiger Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1999
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Were women to be condemned to virtue for life, slaves in the salt-mines of goodness?
Spotty-Handed Villainesses: Problems Of Female Bad Behaviour In The Creation Of Literature 1994
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The sea furnishes some, and salt-mines and salt-springs give the rest.
Reading Made Easy for Foreigners - Third Reader John L. H��lshof
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The great Kanawha coal-fields and iron - and salt-mines are unsurpassed by any now known in any part of the globe.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873 Various
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They had been blockaded, and their resort to the salt-mines near Bahadurkhel and to the markets of Kohat and Peshawar had been interdicted, but these measures produced no effect on the recalcitrant tribesmen.
Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief Frederick Sleigh Roberts
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The greater number were sent to work in the salt-mines, where (as already stated elsewhere) they usually died after the expiration of about four years.
Roumania Past and Present James Samuelson
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