Yonder rise the wild hills of Wales, their purple crests shewing clear and sharp against the glowing sunset sky; while the full moon climbs above the sombre woodlands of Corve Dale, and beams adieu to the departing lord of day.
Corve Dale, a chequer-work of ruddy plough lands and varied greensward, lies like a map at our feet, with the rough holts of Wenlock Edge fringing its farther side.
His descendants dwelt subsequently at Holgate, in Corve Dale, and the family appears to have finally died out some time in the fifteenth century.
Then after a sociable smoke and a chat with mine host anent 'the weather and the craps,' we proceed again upon our travels through the byways of Corve Dale.
Beyond the fine old timbered farmhouse of Langley the valley broadens out, and the good red soil of Corve Dale shews rich and ruddy where the ploughshare has lately passed, and ripening crops by the wayside add a zest to the general outlook.
Laying a course due west for Stanton Lacy, we have now to negociate some intricate byways athwart Hayton's Bent, a stretch of shaggy upland islanded, so to speak, in Corve Dale.
In this way, the corves can be raised with great rapidity; but there is a considerable loss of time in banking the corve at the pit mouth, where shutters or sliding boards must be used.
The loaded corveis replaced by an empty one at the pit mouth, and its weight, with that of the descending rope, pull up the empty cassoon; the motions of the whole mechanism being regulated by a powerful brake.
There is a kind of water engines for raising coals, strictly admissible only in level free pits, where the ascent of the loaded corve is produced by the descent of a cassoon filled with water.
An improvement on this system, where men draw the coals, is to place the basket orcorve on a small four-wheeled carriage, called a tram, or to attach wheels to the corve itself.
One method is by dividing the pit from top to bottom, so that each corve moves in a separate compartment.
You see its nodding gables and peaked roofs among the earliest of the beautiful things of Ludlow, as you come from the railway-station and ascend the steep Corve Street, that leads out of the town, into Corve Dale.
Here's the corve all ready to go down--come along.
Instead of the old corveor basket, an iron safety-cage had been introduced, sliding up and down on steel bars, resembling indeed a perpendicular rail-road.
On to this the full corve was lifted and the empty one left in its place.
The corve descended with its adventurous crew down the shaft.
Still many lingered on in the hopes that the corve might be again sent down, but the viewer forbade any to descend, as it must prove their destruction.
At last the cry arose that the corve was ascending.
A fresh corve was fitted, and the gear put in order.
As soon as they have found the mine safe, the hewers come down and begin their work; and when they have had time to fill a corve or so, they are followed by the putters and other labourers.
There he sat or kneeled, working with his pick, or filling the corve with his spade.
So he dried the tears which were dropping from his eyes and forming black mud on his cheeks, and tried to keep awake till the next putter and his loaded corve should come by, or Bill Hagger should return with his empty one.
At last the corve came down, and the viewer and Dick lifting in David's body, were drawn up.
Bill had not far to go to reach the crane, where the corve would be hoisted on the rolley, or wagon, to be dragged by a pony along the rolley-way to the foot of the shaft.
In vain they shouted for him, while they anxiously waited for the return of the corve to carry them up.
The Davy lamp was hung up before him, and the bigcorve was by his side.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "corve" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
