1173 examples of miner in sentences

An old Kootenay miner spoke low in another's ear: "I'd bet on 'im even.

Thus, among these, the rowan would take its place, as would the common hazel, from which the miner's divining-rod is always cut.

Again, "The liar is like an opiatised tunneller" (miner), i.e., more likely to blow himself to pieces than to effect his purpose.

In a dismal, gruff voice, he proclaimed himself a miner, deep, deep down: "And few, I trow, of my being know, And few that an atom care!"

There was a heavy trail there which led up to a valley where there is a pass by which we used to wind down to the Yellowstone and Tom Miner Creek and Trapper Creek.

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

He recognised all the typesthe miner, the gambler, the saloon-keeper, the bad man, the cowboy, the prospectorjust as though they had stepped living from the pages of his classics.

Next trip he came across pencilled directions concerning the "Miner's Dream Lode."

He saw that the young miner had recovered his habitual tone of raillery, and that the girl was now looking up at him with eyes full of deprecation.

The miner had gone to visit Arthur again.

"Cloud-burst," replied the miner.

Rumours of the drowning of a miner were about.

" "Oh, no," put in the miner hastily, "no need to trouble.

The miner said, "I told you so," and helped on the answer.

"And as for you," went on the doctor dissertatively, "I suppose ye're getting to be somewhat of a miner yourself.

Jones has disappeared, having been, as I hope and believe, discharged upward, and I have found the remains of only one miner, so that it seems to have been a tolerable success, though I myself was blown inward, owing to the premature explosion of the train.

By the light of this I proceed to note down my first series of comments as a tail-piece to your meteorological article in the July 'Atlantic,' of which we received a copy in due course, as the magazine has a large circulation among our friars miner down here.

" Master Tavernier discourses at some length on the ingenious methods adopted by the laborers to conceal diamonds which they have found, sometimes swallowing them,and he tells of one miner who hid in the corner of his eye a stone of two carats!

The miner in his cabin hears The ripple we are hearing; It whispers soft to homesick ears Around the settler's clearing: In Sacramento's vales of corn,

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.

But who is Black Mart?" "Oh, he's a miner that's workin' the claim next ter Golconda.

Translated by Charles Miner Thompson.

THOMPSON, CHARLES MINER.

The gold miner, the transcontinental railway, and the soldier have been the pioneers of civilization.

And I learned his story one day from an old miner, as we ate our bread and cheese together on the floor of Wheal Tregobbin, while the Davy lamp between us made wavering giants of our shadows on the walls of the adit, and the sea moaned as it tossed on its bed, two hundred feet above.

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