In the Northumberland colliers the steerage itself is called the half-deck, and is usually the habitation of the ship's crew.
In the Northumberland colliers the steerage itself is called the half-deck, and is usually the habitation of the crew.
Men who deliver the cargoes of colliers in the river Thames into lighters.
Colliers generally tide it, "backing and filling" down the Thames until they gain the reaches, where there is room for tacking, or the wind is fair enough for them to lay their course.
The colliers had a light boat on deck, but with it even in calm water they could have done little to help the poor creature, and on such a stream it was quite useless.
Johnny, seated on the grimy deck, heard the colliers discussing her struggles, but took no concern in them.
The papers, continually writing about the strait of Sunda and our colliers which were assembled there, turned their attention from the straits of Malacca.
The hospital-ship Orel has not returned, nor have the colliers come.
The colliers brought news that the Oleg has captured a steamer which was taking two hundred and sixty field-guns to Japan.
They have sent officers to the colliers to help the captains.
The approachingcolliers can be seen in the distance.
The German colliersbrought news that newly bought ships are coming to reinforce us, and are at present at Cape Verde.
The moment the fleet arrived the colliers re-occupied the places assigned them by the admiral.
The captain of the Portuguese gunboat told the captains of the colliers that he would forbid any attempt on their part to coal the fleet.
We could make out some boats with survivors, and one of the colliers rendered assistance.
The harbour is also so small, that fifty sail of colliers taking shelter there would render it extremely crowded.
At the County Epiphany Sessions, ten of the Dudley colliers were indicted for a riot, to obtain a rise in wages, in the previous December.
APRIL 25—The colliersof Stourbridge in a state of great disturbance from the scarcity.
The nailors, as a class, are almost as destitute as the colliersof everything like intelligence, and this is chiefly owing to the early age at which the children work at the trade and are able to earn a livelihood for themselves.
The arrival of the Midland colliers to-night, if not of those from Monmouth, will precipitate matters.
The colliersin London would be carried back to their own districts as fast as the railways could get out the trains.
There is a movement among the colliers over Barfold Rise.
Less coal meant fewer colliers employed, and this touched the Government most keenly.
They were to live on the land they passed through; but the land was agricultural and poor, the populace regarded the Monmouth colliers as foreigners, and the response was scanty.
Lancers withdrawn from Hounslow to Regent's Park, Salt under arrest at Stafford, and the Monmouth collierscoming along the Bath road and passing within a mile or two of Hanwood, represent the three angles of a very acute triangle.
These ships, when no longer required for that service were to be transferred to the Secretary of the Navy for use as colliers or other auxiliary naval vessels.
Thus, it will require two colliers to handle the coal when the canal opens, and two more 13 years later.
Special efforts have been made to provide for the quick loading of colliers in case of war.
The saving which will be effected by having the coal carried by Government colliers is a large one.
The direction of the dip is described by the colliers in a very pretty way.
The colliers of Kingswood had no church, no Sabbath, no Gospel.
Pulpits are denied," he says, "and the poor colliers are ready to perish.
They were now seen in hospitals, administering spiritual comfort to the sick; in prisons, offering eternal life to condemned felons; at Kingswood, calling the dark colliers to a knowledge of the truth.
The van had passed through the mining village of Moorthorne, and this was one of the marauding colliers on the outskirts thereof.
One result of this connection with Moorthorne was that a boxing club had been formed in Bursley, with Jock as chief, for the upholding of Bursley's honour against visiting Moorthorne colliers in Bursley's market-place.
When the colliers had highroad business in the night they did not trouble to wash their faces after work.
A considerable part of the fleet was despatched, under the command of Penn, to convoy the colliers who carried London's supply of fuel from the northern ports.
Colliers have struk work and coles is riz accordin.
But, sez JON, colliers ave struk for wages an u cant blame them for that.
The act for manumitting our Scotch colliers was passed in the year 1775, forty-nine years prior to the date of my acquaintance with the class at Niddry.
The history of our Scotch colliers will be found a curious and instructive one.
One unexpected fact has come to light in the course of this investigation, namely, that of the colliers lost on this part of the coast, the proportion of loaded vessels to light is as 5 to 1.
In these buildings apartments are prepared in which the colliers change their clothes before and after labour, and wash themselves in baths filled with hot water from the steam waste-pipe.
It does not include colliers and other vessels in ballast, nor ships of war, nor small coasters laden with stone, lime, &c.
That this premature old age is followed by the early death of the colliers is a matter of course, and a man who reaches sixty is a great exception among them.
British colliers attendant on a Russian fleet would be so undeniably aiding and abetting the operations of that fleet as to give just cause of complaint against us to the Government of Japan.
The disaster of the colliers entombed in the Welsh Senghenydd mine which happened in the same year was sad.
She read the caption under one of the pictures of the wives and families of the four hundred and twenty-nine colliers killed in the Senghenydd mine, but not under any of the others.
Similar funeral festoons spanned it to the west, while eastward, towards the sea, tiers and tiers of jetty colliers lay moored, side by side, fleets of black swans.
Perhaps of all classes of laborers Scotch colliers are the most theoretically democratic and the most practically indifferent in matters of religion.
Traquare saw a strange sight--a dozen colliersin a field of wheat, making a real holiday of cutting the grain and binding the sheaves, so that before the next Sabbath it had all been brought safely home.
There was a party of colliers sitting around the Change House; they were the night-gang, and having had their sleep and their breakfast, were now smoking and drinking away the few hours left of their rest.
During his close intimacy with the colliers he had learned many things which would change his methods of working for their welfare; and of these changes he wished to speak with Helen.
What the coal-owners andcolliers of the North Country thought about the matter was sufficiently shown by their subscription of 1000 pounds, as a Stephenson testimonial fund.
For several years Geordie, as his fellow-colliers affectionately called him, continued to live on at one or other of the Killingworth collieries.
The colliers and factory operatives chiefly live there.
This case was an instance of the peculiar troubles to which colliers and their families are liable; a little representative bit of life among the poor of Wigan.
This, however, does not much lighten the distress which has fallen upon the spinners and weavers, for the colliers are also working short time--an average of four days a week.
The colliers of Wigan have been suffering a good deal lately, among the rest of the community, from shortness of labour.
YOU remember the school at Kingswood, that the colliers collected the money for and started?
When you hear this will you just think, that the money you give is for the same school that was started by those good-hearted colliers near Bristol, more than one hundred and fifty years ago.
Two hundred grimy colliers stood and listened to that earnest young preacher.
Oh, how hard those poorcolliers and their wives, yes, and the children too, worked to get money to build their chapel.
He had made no arrangements for colliers to supply his fleet, and his coal was getting low.
He intended to lie off the port, bring a couple of colliers out of the Woosung River, fill his bunkers at sea, and try to reach Vladivostock by the Pacific and the La Pérouse Straits.
The expected colliers had not arrived; the Dutch authorities insisted on Cervera leaving Curaçao within twenty-four hours, and he sailed on the Sunday without being able to fill up his bunkers.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "colliers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
