coalpits

I had no very clear purpose in my journey, but I steered east by the sun, for I remembered from the map that if I went north I would come into a region of coalpits and industrial towns.

The Thirty-Nine Steps 2005

In the neighbourhood are coalpits, but they are small and unimportant.

The South of France—East Half C. B. Black

The town, nearly a mile from the station, consists chiefly of the houses of the workmen employed in the surrounding coalpits, foundries, and large artistic brick and tile works.

The South of France—East Half C. B. Black

One dark night, being in the neighborhood of Dudley, he had been drinking to excess, wandered out of the house, and staggered among the coalpits, exposed to fall into them, and be lost.

Select Temperance Tracts American Tract Society

Kingswood on twenty thousand colliers, grimy from the Bristol coalpits, and saw, as he preached, the tears making white channels down their blackened cheeks ....

The Young Priest's Keepsake Michael Phelan

It may be found worth while perhaps to construct steam engines close to coalpits and send out power from these engines by wire; but the question will be asked, Which is the cheaper of the two, to send the coal or to send the power?

Scientific American Supplement, No. 303, October 22, 1881 Various

I had no very clear purpose in my journey, but I steered east by the sun, for I remembered from the map that if I went north I would come into a region of coalpits and industrial towns.

The Thirty-Nine Steps John Buchan 1907

There's a heap of coalpits behind the British front where they could generate power, and I judge there's ample water supply from the rivers and canals.

Greenmantle John Buchan 1907

Adolphe and Poterloo, risen with the dawn, trailed about the coalpits of the North like weakling Will-o'-th'-wisps.

Under Fire: the story of a squad Henri Barbusse 1904

But for _me_, the real making of one's country is done out of sight, in garrets and workshops and coalpits, by people who die every minute -- forgotten -- swept into heaps like autumn leaves, their lives mere soil and foothold for the generation that comes after them.

Sir George Tressady — Volume I Humphry Ward 1885