Like these rough miners and fisher-folk she could not have said wherein the attraction lay, but she recognized in him that inner fire called genius, and it drew her unaccountably, irresistibly.

The others were men more accustomed to work with their hands, but, in spite of the conscious superiority of your experienced miner, a very good feeling prevailed in the ganga general friendliness that presently centred about the Colonel, for even in his present mood he was far from disagreeable, except now and then, to the man he cared the most for.

The asteroid had been drifting and uninhabited for who knows how many thousands of years when a solitary asteroid miner had found it and discovered that it was hollow.

He's a good enough practical miner, but he's useless in bossing a job or handling money.

First came emigrants, "honest miners," "cow-boys," and laborers; Irishmen, Germans, Welshmen, Mennonites from Russia, quaint of garb and speech, and Chinamen.

Are these literary miners to penetrate the recesses of private life, only to bring to light the dross?

Two little miners.

There had come to be necessity for complicated woodwork below the surface, and he had shown himself to be a skilled miner.

The western miner, the western agriculturist, worried beyond endurance between the money-lender and railway combinations will be almost equally prone to savage methods of expression.

A trail was made through it about the time of the Mono gold excitement, in the year 1858, by adventurous miners and prospectorsmen who would build a trail down the throat of darkest Erebus on the way to gold.

And if you could see Tom in his flannel shirt and his shabbiest old grey suit, and a felt slouch hat, you could not tell him from one of these lovely miners.

The strokes of the unfortunate miners continued to reply to theirs, which added to their agitation, from the fear of not being able to afford them effectual help.

There'd be a dozen decent, hard working miners who could no get a lassie to look their way, try as they michtmen who wanted nothing better than to settle doon in a wee hoose somewhere, and stay at home with the wife, and, a bit later, with the bairns. Ye'd never be seein'

"The American miners and merchants, eager for the earliest news of the approaching mails and merchandise, erected a signal station on the top of Loma Alta, about where that flag-pole is.

," I explained, "the sweet singer who bewitched the city at a time when gold was still more plentiful than flowers, and her song was greeted by a shower of the glittering metal flung to her feet by enthusiastic miners.

He's one of those extraordinary old miners who can tell from the look of things, without even panning.

And she had for a while been noted and courted for her success, having been the only female miner who was supposed to have realised money in these parts.

It has been said that for every bona fide miner there was at least one hanger-on or camp follower, who had no intention of doing any digging or washing, but who was smart enough to realize that a veritable thief's paradise would be built up by the hard workers.

How kind they were to me, those genial, cordial miners, how careful for my comfort, and how motherly were the women!

I took him for some giant miner.

They are the van-guardthe miners and sappers of returning despotism.

The hotel proprietor and some handy miners who could do carpentering came up while we were away at breakfast, and mended the doors, and everyone laughed and pretended nothing had happened; only Nelson had rather a set face, and after breakfast we climbed up on the steep mountain behind the hotel and watched the world.

The wives of the hapless miners had heard that all hope was not extinct.

It is surely not feminine to look longingly on those ladders made for the descent of hardy miners only; visitors beneath the surface are rare; only gentlemen interested in seeing for themselves the richness of these vaunted mines have essayed the tour; even many of these failing to penetrate farther than the first level, and bravely owning their faint-heartedness.

Independent asteroid miners came to Ceres once in a while for supplies, and corporations picked up equipment imported daily from Mars.