Mr. Bulman is a mining engineer who has been a colliery manager and a director of colliery companies, and he has a wide knowledge of the subject.
Mr. Bulman thinks that it is very unfair to throw the blame for bad housing conditions on the colliery owners, who, he says, have done more than most employers to provide houses for those they employ.
As he had wisely invested his savings in Grand Trunk shares, they and his share in the colliery enabled him to leave ample provision for his widow and two daughters.
He proposed to run the colliery for their benefit.
It may well be supposed that this series of unhappy incidents did not tend to narrow the breach between the two colliery owners and their people.
He owned a large colliery and employed many men and not a few ships.
And indeed the Blackett colliery did at that time seem to be under a cloud.
The Fairburn colliery had prospered wonderfully, and the owner now employed no fewer than four vessels of his own, one of which ran to Hull regularly.
These two lads were both sons of colliery owners, and both pupils of the ancient school of St. Peter of York, the most notable foundation north of the Humber.
Under Fairburn's management the colliery had made a clear profit of five thousand odd pounds in the course of a single year's working.
So greatly was his business increasing, that the proprietor of the little colliery came to a decision that seemed likely to affect his son's whole future life.
Orders were being booked faster than the modest staff of the colliery could execute them.
The jubilant colliery owner and his merry men took care to pass the Fairburn pit, with frantic cheerings and hallooings.
Coming straight from a cheap lunch eaten off a marble-topped table to this muffled, scented room, was like passing from a colliery slum to a warm and scented bath in a Roman villa.
He is a doctor in a colliery town, and one of the unlucky mortals.
The working of South Balinaslick Colliery has been suspended for the same reason--Martin Morris having had charge of the underground works in both collieries.
She mechanically took the blue paper and read: 'Toft End Colliery and Brickworks Limited, five hundred shares of ten pounds.
The footpath ran at right angles to Trafalgar Road, past a colliery whose engine-fires glowed in the dark, moonless, autumn night, and then across a field.
Grin and Grinning, to give them instructions to sell his shares in the New Colliery Co.
Old Jolyon took his Will to the offices of the New Colliery Company, and sat down in the empty Board Room to read it through.
It was not far to the Offices of the New Colliery Company in Ironmonger Lane, where, and not at the Cannon Street Hotel, in accordance with the more ambitious practice of other companies, the General Meeting was always held.
Roth, and in the presence of a number of colliery managers and other practical men.
A series of experiments of great interest and vital importance to colliery owners and all those engaged in mining coal has been carried out during the last ten days in the South Yorkshire coal field.
But our projected port is much nearer to its collierythan Chinwangtao.
Mr. Lawrence can pass with equal sureness from colliery to cathedral and find the right word for every thing and person met on the way, the right word, though often a perplexed and perplexing word.
Many miles of colliery tramroads were in existence when--at the beginning of the nineteenth century--the idea of using the steam engine in place of the horse was taken up by engineers.
The system is still in use for colliery working and is also employed (in an improved form, of course) for funicular railways.
After all others had failed, the overseer, in despair, with but little expectation that anything could be accomplished by a raw colliery hand, employed him to attempt a remedy.
In another minute he was driving at a fine pace towards his colliery at Toft End.
Mr Swann was secretary for the Toft End Brickworks and Colliery Company (Limited).
Eva's father was a colliery manager who lived on the outskirts of Silverhays.
I visited the Hunshelf Colliery on the 18th of January: it is a day pit; that is there is no shaft or descent; the gate or entrance is at the side of a bank, and nearly horizontal.
So that practically the real quantity to be sold is fixed with reference to each colliery each month?
That from and after the first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, it shall not be lawful for any owner of any mine or colliery to employ any male person under the age of ten years .
I heard from him a while since as his squire wants a steady man to overlook a small colliery as he's got on his estate.
Ned Brierley was appointed manager of a colliery in Wales, at a place a hundred miles or more from Langhurst, and a few months after Alice Johnson's death he removed to his new situation, with all his family.
At all events, it was whispered that the teamsters lingered long at roadside inns, and that some of them struck into by-ways instead of making direct for the colliery with their empties.
When I saw Manager Dunn go down at the colliery yonder it was just more than I could stand.
This was a special body raised by the railways and colliery owners to supplement the efforts of the ordinary civil police, who were perfectly helpless in the face of the organized ruffianism which terrorized the district.
The hedges, blackened with smuts from the collieryon the other side of the slope, were dripping also with raindrops.
In the background were the tall chimneys of several factories; on the left, a colliery shaft raised its smoke-blackened finger to the lowering clouds.
A very few days before the first meeting, twenty-seven persons had been killed in a colliery in which Sir Ralph Milbanke had an interest, and he was called upon at the meeting to state the particulars of the accident.
Airy's theory, and experiments at the Harton colliery 23 Results of experiments not reliable.
Airy's theory, and experiments at the Harton colliery 22 Results of experiments not reliable.
The city is surrounded by colliery communities which are so close together and so near the city proper that they really form part of the town.
The scene at Harwich was like that which follows a colliery explosion.
An advance upon two German colliery positions adjoining the Grassier to the northwest, earlier in the night, also involved stiff hand-to-hand fighting.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "colliery" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
