collier's

The saloon is an inferno, the deck like a collier's, and ourselves like sweeps.

The Riddle of the Sands Childers, Erskine, 1870-1922 1955

He tells the astonished hearers, that the wife and daughter of the Count, who was slain by his brother, were not burnt in the castle, but escaped to the forest, finding kindly refuge in a poor collier's hut where the mother died, leaving her child, Silvana, under his protection.

The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas Charles Annesley

Let us hope that the school-master will find his way into every collier's dwelling, enlightening his too long uncultivated mind; and that the foolish prejudices shall cease, which have been hitherto the barriers to _post-mortem_ examinations in his community.

An Investigation into the Nature of Black Phthisis or Ulceration Induced by Carbonaceous Accumulation in the Lungs of Coal Miners Archibald Makellar

"The ---- Food Economy Committee were astounded yesterday at the secretary's report of a collier's family of six persons who consumed twenty half-quartern loaves in one week, averaging twenty pounds of bread per person."

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, May 23, 1917 Various

With the rapid advance in the general improvement which has been going on, the collier's position in society has become greatly elevated; and his deeply-rooted superstitious feelings have been, to a great extent, dissipated.

An Investigation into the Nature of Black Phthisis or Ulceration Induced by Carbonaceous Accumulation in the Lungs of Coal Miners Archibald Makellar

Letting, a collier's man, and John Anthony of the merchant ship

The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore

Her reverence and love thus manifested -- a woman's offering to tortured flesh in the dark chamber of pain -- she unbuckled the leathern strap that clasped the little collier's breeches to his waist, and, with a touch gentle enough to carry healing, bared the body, now discoloured and torn, though still the veined and plastic marble -- the flesh-wall of the human temple, so fearfully and wonderfully made.

Lancashire Idylls (1898) Marshall Mather

The old Count, disgusted at the idea of his son's union with a collier's daughter accuses her of being a sorceress.

The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas Charles Annesley

'Have any of you a light?' asked he of the men below; and Malachi handed him his collier's candle and matches, with which he commenced to penetrate the gloom.

Lancashire Idylls (1898) Marshall Mather

"Thank you so much," said the girl, seating herself in the collier's arm-chair, the place of honour.

Sons and Lovers 1913