Colliers

"Yes, lass; it's only a nickname the old tub got in the north, where they call the colliers coal-coffins, 'cause it's ten to one you'll go to the bottom in 'em every time ye go to sea." ❋ Unknown (1859)

You don't think all the colliers are the same, all over the country? ❋ Unknown (1907)

The colliers are the worst for that; they just go straight on, and expect you to get out of the way, and don't mind a rap about the rule of the road or anything else. ❋ Unknown (1867)

Commercial production was first done in pits covered with dirt by specially trained craftsmen called colliers. ❋ Meathead (2011)

She dazzled her way through India and Indonesia in elaborate colliers and she debuted a pretty cool rope necklace in Newark on Thursday at Maple Avenue School. ❋ The Huffington Post News Team (2010)

In retirement he wrote two scholarly books, Gresford: The Anatomy of a Disaster (1997), an account of the pit explosion that killed 266 colliers in north Wales in 1934, and The Vaccination Controversy: The Rise and Fall of Compulsory Vaccination (2007). ❋ Chris Hall (2010)

Although Eliza liked it when the coal boats came in at high water, the watermen rowing people back and forth, the lighters bringing in cargo from the colliers, it was low tide when the river really came to life. ❋ Kate Morton (2009)

Thomas Dekker: At length a blind bear was tied to the stake, and instead of baiting him with dogs, a company of creatures that had the shapes of men and faces of Christians (being either colliers, carters, or watermen) took the office of beadles upon them, and whipped Monsieur Hunks till the blood ran down his old shoulders. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Holyrood, should not only be extended into those exalted regions I have mentioned, but also that they should cross the Forth, astonish the long town of Kirkcaldy, enchant the skippers and colliers of the East of Fife, venture even into the classic arcades of St. Andrews, and travel as much farther to the north as the breath of applause will carry their sails. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The existence of this species of slavery being thought irreconcilable with the spirit of liberty, colliers and salters were declared free, and put upon the same footing with other servants, by the Act 15 Geo. ❋ Unknown (2008)

On either hand were long black tiers of colliers; between them vessels slowly working out of harbour with sails glistening in the sun, and creaking noise on board, re – echoed from a hundred quarters. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The boats are dancing on the bubbling water; the colliers are afloat again; the white-bordered waves rush in; the children ❋ Unknown (2007)

I had not sat five minutes by the coffee – room fire, when the waiter, coming to stir it, as an excuse for talking, told me that two colliers had gone down, with all hands, a few miles away; and that some other ships had been seen labouring hard in the Roads, and trying, in great distress, to keep off shore. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Of barges, sailing colliers, and coasting – traders, there were perhaps, as many as now; but of steam – ships, great and small, not a tithe or a twentieth part so many. ❋ Unknown (2007)