headstocks

Second offense is a choice between corporal punishment by flogging or public humiliation through a day in the headstocks.

Ella Minnow Pea (copy) ____Maggie 2009

Second offense is a choice between corporal punishment by flogging or public humiliation through a day in the headstocks.

Archive 2009-05-01 ____Maggie 2009

There was a stiff, modern, grey little church, and blocks and rows of red dwellings lying at random; at the back, the twinkling headstocks of the pit, and the looming pit-hill.

The Prussian Officer and Other Stories 2003

And the children, as they come from school at dinner-time, looking down the fields and seeing the wheels on the headstocks standing, say:

Sons and Lovers 1913

At Brinsley pit the white steam melted slowly in the sunshine of a soft blue sky; the wheels of the headstocks twinkled high up; the screen, shuffling its coal into the trucks, made a busy noise.

Sons and Lovers 1913

I like the rows of trucks, and the headstocks, and the steam in the daytime, and the lights at night.

Sons and Lovers 1913

On the crest of the hill, Selby, with its stark houses and the up-pricked headstocks of the pit, stood in black silhouette small against the sky.

Sons and Lovers 1913

On the crest of the hill, Selby, with its stark houses and the up-pricked headstocks of the pit, stood in black silhouette small against the sky.

Sons and Lovers 1907

And the children, as they come from school at dinner-time, looking down the fields and seeing the wheels on the headstocks standing, say:

Sons and Lovers 1907

At Brinsley pit the white steam melted slowly in the sunshine of a soft blue sky; the wheels of the headstocks twinkled high up; the screen, shuffling its coal into the trucks, made a busy noise.

Sons and Lovers 1907