Its large industrial population is employed in the neighbouring collieries and the various attendant manufactures.
Cotton mills, iron foundries, brick and tile works, and collieries employ the large industrial population.
We found Maryport to be quite a modern looking seaport town, with some collieries in the neighbourhood.
Cotton spinning and printing works, cotton-mill machinery works, dye-works and chemical manufactures, and neighbouring collieriesmaintain the industrial population.
Breweries, ironworks, quarries, brick fields and collieries in the neihbourhood are among the principal industrial establishments.
There was a long-headed engine-man in one of the Newcastle collieries about this time, in whose mind the true solution of the problem was rapidly developing, but Trevithick had nearly forestalled him.
The collieries were converted into a limited company in 1865.
Collieries and railroads have given a powerful impetus to this aristocratic place, which has now considerable trade and large carpet manufactures.
There are 200 collieries in the surrounding district.
The paths are black, the hedges and trees ragged and sooty, and tramways from the collieries cross the road itself, unfenced, the trucks dropping coal in the highway.
The collieries extend from Boksburg eastward to Springs, 11 m.
The village began to flourish in the reign of Elizabeth, when the iron manufacture was first established here: at present, it is noted for its collieries and flourishing trade in locks, and other articles of hardware.
Extensive collieries enrich the vicinity, and tend greatly to darken the complexion of both houses and inhabitants; the workers of the black diamond hereabout being a marvellously murky fraternity.
There are tinplate works at Pontyclun and numerous collieries in the district.
The town is modern and owes its prosperity to the iron-works and collieries in its immediate vicinity.
Anthracite and steam-coal from the collieries of the coast and along the Loughor Valley are exported from the extensive docks; and there are also large works for the smelting of copper and the manufacture of tin plates.
The chief employment is the cotton manufacture, but there are also collieries and ironworks, which employ a great many persons.
Another instance of misunderstanding is afforded by Mr. G.
Bad environment got John Bunyan down: there is no doubt of that.
The children of Shakespeare would not be Shakespeareans: they would be half Shakespeare and half Hathaway; and it is quite possible that their intellectual qualities might come chiefly from the mother's side.
Let every man have place and honor as he proves himself worthy.
The bridge on the Portland and Ogdensburg Railroad which crosses the Saco River is a very general type of a through railway bridge.
Who can follow the subtle workings of a woman's thought?
One of my windows looked out on olive-gardens and on the old church San Miniato, on the hill of the same name.
The bigotry of medical science, even after its efficacy was known and proved, for a long time retarded its dissemination.
Sir Robert Talbor, an English doctor, for two thousand louis-d'or, a large pension and a title.
The white visitors could not refrain from an exclamation of surprise at the neatness and civilization of such an Eden in the desert.
In the Province of Albay, the Súgod Collieries were started by a company formed in the year 1874.
When men are working in collieries it is usual to relieve them four times.
The more so, that one of the collieries is still burning, with no chance of being extinguished.
You, who are a great scientist, know as well as I do that collieries take fire when sulphur gets mixed with coal-dust and is allowed to lie in a heap.
In his opening remarks he said: "They had met not as delegates of an organised body of miners, but as representatives of collieries not yet united, to devise means whereby an organisation could be established throughout the county of Durham.
On the 7th of May a full detailed list of the collieries and members was given, which it may be interesting to set forth.
The returns of the voting were 224 for stopping the whole of the collieries and only 7 for working on.
The Executive met the employers as requested, and found that the change was to increase from ten hours to eleven all the collieries working ten hours, that drawing time being the outcome of an arrangement.
It was suggested at the same time that any advance asked or conceded should be based on prices in force at bound and unbound collieries of the county of Durham in April 1871.
The drawing hours in the night-shift collieries to be in proportion to the day shift.
In addition to this large increase in funds and numbers encouraging reports were given by the delegates as to the requests which were made from unorganised collieries for someone to attend to assist in inducing the men to join.
After a short consultation in private, the deputation drew up the following telegram, the substance of which they communicated to the employers:-- We regret to hear that Haswell and Castle Eden Collieriesare idle.
The Committee was appointed to take charge, and the owners were notified that all the collieries would be off on that day.
In their value and importance the Lancashire collieries vie with the cotton-mills, declaring once again how close and constant is the dependence of the prosperity of a great manufacturing district upon its geology.
Some of them, who owned collieries up in the northeastern portion of Pennsylvania and who were concerned with the proposition of getting their product to tidewater, were particularly interested.
The English railroads were crude affairs built to handle the products of the collieries in the northeast corner of the country, to bring the coal down to the docks.
Schlessinger for one of the collieries of the Pennsylvania Railroad about 1882, and which has remained in active use ever since.
He needed a quicker and easier transit for his coals from the collieries north of Darlington to Stockton, where they were shipped; and Mr. Pease began to agitate, in his mind, a railroad.
The collieries had used small pieces of them for years.
But they came out in a sort of semiofficial strike from all Lord Redcar's collieries beyond the canal that besets Swathinglea.
She remembered the ruined collieries and the black cinder-heaps protruding through the hillside on which she was now standing.
The sun was now rapidly approaching the meridian, and in the vibrating light the wheels of the most distant collieries could almost be counted, and the stems of the far-off factory chimneys appeared like tiny fingers.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "collieries" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
