Born in a mining-camp where they were rare and mysterious, having no sisters, his mother dying while he was an infant, he had never been in contact with them. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The Rocky Mountain and Pacific Coast states, with their ripe mining-camp history, offer up the most offensive place names, but even staid Newfoundland has a village named Dildo situated next to Spread Eagle Bay.… Although general readers will find much of the procedural and bureaucratic details of official place-naming arcane, they will enjoy a trove of giggle-inducing lore. ❋ Unknown (2006)
The buildings were as ill-assorted, as temporary-looking, as a mining-camp street in the motion-pictures. ❋ Unknown (2004)
By diligent consultation of American fiction she discovered that this was the only virile and amusing manner in which boys could function; that boys who were not compounded of the gutter and the mining-camp were mollycoddles and unhappy. ❋ Unknown (2004)
From them a stink of stale beer, and thick voices bellowing pidgin German or trolling out dirty songs — vice gone feeble and unenterprising and dull — the delicacy of a mining-camp minus its vigor. ❋ Unknown (2004)
A winter mining-camp is the most bleak and comfortless of places. ❋ Unknown (2003)
He added the fresh, rugged vigor of thought and expression that was the very essence of the Comstock, which was like every other frontier mining-camp, only on a more lavish, more overwhelming scale. ❋ Unknown (2003)
If a lady visited a mining-camp, the men far and near would drop work and come in just to look at the visitor. ❋ Ella M. Sexton (N/A)
Ballarat was at first only a mining-camp of immense size, and its environs are still occupied by tents, where transient visitors find very passable accommodations. ❋ Various (N/A)
"Come on, unlettered ignoramus," said his master, and, holding the wondering little foundling on his arm, with his rabbit still clutched by the ears, he proceeded down to the roadway, scored like a narrow gray streak through the brush, and plodded onward towards the mining-camp of Borealis. ❋ Philip Verrill Mighels (N/A)
Already a score were across the road that led to the mining-camp of Borealis, and were swarming up the sandy slope to complete the mighty swing of the army, deploying anew to sweep far westward through the farther half of the valley, and so at length backward whence they came. ❋ Philip Verrill Mighels (N/A)
The cream, as it were, of the population of the mining-camp were ready to receive the group from up on the hill. ❋ Philip Verrill Mighels (N/A)
Thus genuine and unconventional was the hospitality of the mining-camp. ❋ Various (N/A)
A mining-camp is a restless thing; its peoples live in the streets. ❋ Philip Verrill Mighels (N/A)
Meantime, the night in the mining-camp had brought no untoward excitement. ❋ Philip Verrill Mighels (N/A)
Fascinated by the maelstrom of the mining-camp life, and unwilling to retreat from the scene until she should see her roving brother, and gratify at least a curiosity concerning Van, she nevertheless felt afraid to be there, not only on account of the roughness and uncertainty of the existence, but also because, despite herself, she had attracted undesirable attention. ❋ Philip Verrill Mighels (N/A)
Goldite by any name save that of Queenie, was buried on a hillside, already called into requisition as a final resting place for such as succumbed in the mining-camp, too far from friends, or too far lost, to be carried to the world outside the mountains. ❋ Philip Verrill Mighels (N/A)
Fear, no doubt, fear of the white man inspired in the old Chinese of mining-camp days by years of rough treatment and oppression. ❋ Biggers, Earl Derr, 1884-1933 (1932)
Since that day when he had first discovered her, a wild rose of the mining-camp taking in the family wash, he had realised that she was no pretty young working-girl, but a woman with a mind and a personality. ❋ Upton Sinclair (1923)
