shafthouse

In one watercolor, painted on a hazy day, one could virtually feel the humidity; in a bleak winter scene the shafthouse rose from monstrous snowdrifts, its many-angled rooftops blanketed with a foot of snow the picture of cold and loneliness.

The Cat Who Sang For The Birds Braun, Lilian Jackson 1998

They had passed it hundreds or even thousands of times, yet they always turned to look at the hushed scene posted as dangerous: the high chain-link fence, the evidence of a recent cave-in, and the ghostly shafthouse towering above the barren earth.

The Cat Who Sang For The Birds Braun, Lilian Jackson 1998

We lived near the Old Glory shafthouse in those days.

The Cat Who Sang For The Birds Braun, Lilian Jackson 1998

My cousin has just bought her fourth shafthouse ...

The Cat Who Sang For The Birds Braun, Lilian Jackson 1998

Just as they entered the shafthouse the cage shot to the surface.

A Daughter of the Dons A Story of New Mexico Today William MacLeod Raine 1912

Donleavy, who had directed the attack on the Taurus, had to be brought from the shafthouse under the protection of a score of Pinkerton detectives to safeguard him from the swift vengeance of the miners, who needed but a word to fling themselves against the cordon of police.

Ridgway of Montana (Story of To-Day, in Which the Hero Is Also the Villain) William MacLeod Raine 1912

Polly said, "I wrote a sonnet to a shafthouse once, when I first moved here.

The Cat Who Sang For The Birds Braun, Lilian Jackson 1998