coal-pits

The high-flying pilots, he proposed and some 2,000 took up the offer, should go to work down the coal-pits–or go home to whatever fate might there await them.

Chaplin’s Girl Miranda Seymour 2009

Tens of thousands of workers — over 90% of the miners in the coal-pits — went on strike.

The Ludlow Massacre 2008

Tens of thousands of workers — over 90% of the miners in the coal-pits — went on strike.

Rad Geek People’s Daily – 2008 – April – 20 2008

“_Legrees_” are to be found, for cruelty is inherent in base natures; we have “_Legrees_” in our factories and coal-pits; but in England their most terrible excesses are restrained by the strong arm of law, which, _when appealed to_, extends its protection to the feeblest and most helpless.

The Englishwoman in America 2007

How many thousands want that which thou hast? how many myriads of poor slaves, captives, of such as work day and night in coal-pits, tin-mines, with sore toil to maintain a poor living, of such as labour in body and mind, live in extreme anguish, and pain, all which thou art free from?

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

The unhealthiness of the westerly winds probably results from malaria, appearing to be heavier than common air, and sweeping down into the valley of Cassange from the western plateau, somewhat in the same way as the carbonic acid gas from bean-fields is supposed by colliers to do into coal-pits.

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

Britain was taking some thousands of solid staves, about five feet long, for the coal-pits at home, where they are used as supports.

Through Finland in Carts

We shall, I believe, at no distant date, have great central stations, possibly situated at the bottom of coal-pits where enormous steam engines will drive enormous electric machines.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 288, July 9, 1881 Various

There are eight large copper smelting establishments, besides several rolling-mills, now at work; the whole country is covered with tram-roads and coal-pits, many of which vomit forth their mineral treasures close to the road side.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 469, January 1, 1831 Various

And he did go, and he got employment in one of the coal-pits in the neighbourhood, where he received so much per week as wages, and a lump of coal every day as large as he could carry home, as a perquisite.

Little Abe Or, The Bishop of Berry Brow F. Jewell