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Or lie they hid in caves, rocks, and hollow trees, as most think, in deep tin-mines or sea-cliffs, as [3025] Mr. Carew gives out?
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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?
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Life Insurance Company, of the Tregulpho tin-mines, and of four or five railroad companies.
Our Street 2006
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On the hills north of Liskeard, and in the way between Liskeard and Launceston, there are many tin-mines.
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On the hills north of Liskeard, and in the way between Liskeard and Launceston, there are many tin-mines.
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On the hills north of Liskeard, and in the way between Liskeard and Launceston, there are many tin-mines.
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He could have been a Celt from the tin-mines of Cornwall or the collieries of Wales.
A Murder of Quality Le Carre, John, 1931- 1962
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Here much grain is produced, one hundred piculs of black birds'-nests, two hundred piculs of wax, some gold, pepper, camphor, &c., but the tin-mines, before mentioned, are utterly neglected.
The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy Henry Keppel
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For geology and the tin-mines, _Jaarboek vor het Mijnwezen in Ned.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various
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Cairns is the natural outlet for the gold-fields, tin-mines and silver-fields of the district and for the rich copper district of Chillagoe.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various
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