Jessie made haste to dish up the breakfast, but she inquired: "Do you remember, papa, what that old miner who was here the other day told us about mines in the wet season?
The miner said that the springs and rivers were all booming full, just as they are now.
The miner said that the men went on with their work in the mine, as usual, until, one afternoon, the timbered walls of the tunnels slumped in like so much wet sand.
The lone miner no doubt had suspicions concerning several of his worthless neighbors; but to the day of his death he kept such suspicions to himself.
To the doctor it seemed almost a miracle; and he cautioned the old miner kindly: "Mr. Palmer, one can never tell about this malady.
I was a miner in California several years, but I don't remember anybody by the name of Collins.
True, he could distinguish an ex-miner among a thousand.
Should a free miner neglect to renew his certificate upon expiry all mineral-claims held by him under it revert to the Crown," he said.
The long-limbed miner apparently ruminated over this.
Well," said the bigminer drily, "there's very little you need worry about.
Well," said the miner drily, "I guess it ought to be quite plain to you.
Ingleby appeared rather more reflective than ever when the big miner went on, and finally laid his hand on his companion's shoulder.
A few minutes later another miner climbed up on the log, and the rest lay down, rolled in their blankets, about the crackling fire.
The physical strain and tension were commencing to tell on him, for even the experienced placer miner seldom knows whether the next few strokes of the shovel will bring him wealth or make it evident that he has thrown his toil away.
One was a miner in miry long boots and soil-stained jean, the other a girl in a light dress.
If I understand the regulations, it would be quite sufficient to leave another miner to carry on the work on my account.
It was still unsafe to leave her alone, as she disliked solitude, and always made it a point to join any group of loungers with her unnecessary cart, and even to follow some good-looking miner to his cabin.
In vain would the old man continue to protest against the spirit of the gift; the miner generally returned with his pockets that much the lighter, and it is not improbable a little less intoxicated than he otherwise might have been.
Old-fashioned miner scrubs along on hardtack and beans, and saves up a little money to go home and see relations.
She found it difficult to rest, as she did not know at what moment Martin might need more help than the miner could give.
Only once did a bumptious youngminer attempt to ignore such instructions.
It was not until he came back to the open door that the miner thought of his companion.
The two men looked at each other, the miner stepping slightly forward, and knocking the ashes out of his pipe.
Yet it was not in the nature of the big miner to go at anything recklessly.
The big, good-natured miner had interested her from the first as representing a perfect type of her preconceived ideal of the real Westerner.
With one leap forward the miner was at his throat.
Naturally, to keep you in here until I am through with you," returned the miner coldly.
But for his words the miner would have given the fellow no further thought.
Only this," and the miner squared his shoulders, looking the other straight in the eyes.
The miner was conscious only of a feeling of dull rage, a desire for revenge.
The miner looked up at the implacable face in surprise, lowering his feet.
To avoid encountering him the miner crept along the far side of the cabin through the dense shadow, and then struck directly across the hill crest, guided by the distant gleam of light.
Lifting himself by a grip on the desk, he swung the weapon forward at the very instant the miner rose staggering, dragging Beaton with him.
The miner smiled grimly, but with no relaxation of vigilance.
The big miner was all she had to rely upon; he had been in her mind all through the long ride; he arose before her again now, and she welcomed the memory with a conscious throb of expectation.
The chief surprise to the reader will be the difference between the status and power of the miner then and now.
I had been a private secretary, a silver miner and a silver mill operative, and amounted to less than nothing in each, and now-- What to do next?
Free coinage means that the silver minermay make fifty cents' worth of silver cancel a dollar's worth of debts.
It was the product of human labor as difficult and tedious as the labor of the gold-miner of to-day.
But in this there was nothing unusual; it is the alternative offered many a log-driver, miner and sailorman.
This miner was set apart from them by something which he had doubtless acquired in youth in the older land.
We cannot bid the fruits come in May, nor the leaves to stick on in December.
But the miner and the salesman prospectors would not benefit in any degree by what they learn through their perception of prospects if they did not then act intelligently upon the clues secured.
The gold miner has little chance to discover the bonanza he seeks if he searches only a few days or weeks, or if he lacks the strength and endurance required for making a thorough exploration of the mineral region.
How eagerly the minerprospector drinks in every bit of news he hears about a new strike!
He thinks of "prospecting" as the gold miner uses the word to describe his activities when he searches for valuable mineral deposits.
However experienced and skillful in prospecting the miner may be, he is very uncertain of discovering a bonanza.
What a fool a miner would be if, after finding rich prospects of gold, he were to lose his chance to someone else because he did not know how to file a mining claim!
There is no keener pleasure than the eager, continual search of a miner for gold and of a master salesman for possible big buyers.
Years had passed since she had seen him aroused and now his lowering face, darkened with passion, his choked words, brought back memories of him raging tremendously in old dead battles with miner and cattleman.
First time I've been without it in a long while," and the old minerlooked at the place where his big revolver always hung in its leather holster.
Well," inquired the tall lad, as he looked at the old miner and at Jim Nestor, "how do you like it?
Then we're not far from the mountains and Lost Valley; that is as near as I can calculate," added the miner to the boys.
Finally Loftus, who was a young miner when the Indians captured him, resolved to try to get away, hoping to be able to bring help.
Jim looked at an old minerwho shuffled up with him.
The old miner looked at the professor, and then at the boys.
The miner nodded, and the next moment our friends found themselves the centre of a throng that was hurrying into the big council house.
Jim Nestor now opened fire, and the professor, anxious to protect the flying lizard he had so unexpectedly secured, plucked up courage to use the extra revolver, which the miner had thrust into his hand.
Christie and Miner Rogers and Herbert--three of the four men of the mission family--had gone away to Adana.
Christie and Herbert and Miner would not be in Adana.
But we did not see the tall figure of Miner Rogers.
The killing of Miner brings the tragedy right into our mission family.
Miner gone, and with him Mr. Maurer, a Hadjin missionary, shot dead.
This sand was carefully gathered up with a brush and iron trowel into a shallow tin basin, and then an experienced miner carefully manipulated the same with clear water.
At last, after they had gone some considerable distance, they saw the dim light of a candle, and heard the dull blows of a pick, then found themselves at the end of the drive, where a miner was working at the wash.
We have already pointed out his affinity to Blake, but with Burns also he may be said to have a spiritual kinship, and in the songs of the Northumbrian miner we meet with something of the Ayrshire peasant's wild gaiety and mad humour.
It is the smartest boy that gets the hero part everywhere; he is head guide in Switzerland, head miner in Nevada, head bull-fighter in Spain, etc.
If the chunk revealed only tiny yellow specks, perhaps mixed with white quartz, the miner would try to find where it rolled from and would ascend the gully, or mountain torrent, or precipice.
The minerstood and proudly surveyed his own figure in the glass.
Amid the dance-halls and saloons the miner with money becomes a sot.
Chinaman or Indian could be as sure of justice as the richest miner in Cariboo.
Many were the devices of a returning minerfor concealing the gold which he had won.
The miner came next, fevered to delirium, lured by the siren of an elusive yellow goddess.
If it had a shiny yellow pebble inside only the size of a pea, the miner would stay on that bank and begin bench diggings into the dry bank.
Overlanders, who had tramped across the breadth of a continent, did not relish the prospect, as one Yankee miner described it, of 'hoofing it five hundred miles farther.
Billy Deitz, after whom a famous creek was named, died penniless in Victoria; and the Scottish minerwho rhymed the songs of Cariboo died unwept and unknown to history.
His idea of a miner was a coal-miner, and not one from the Comstock mine, where there is no coal dust, and where the thermometer indicates a tropical climate always.
It was known in London that he was a minerwho had made a success in America.
Why, the man must be after some other Nevada miner who has more money than judgment.
He tried to conceal his joy, but every moment he would glance at Rose Jenvie with a look in his eyes which was enough to show any miner where his bonanza was.
He had seen no one after leaving Ramsey, except a drunken minerwith his bundle on his stick, marching home to a tipsy travesty of some brave song.
Sweethearting with the miner fellows while Jemmy's been away?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "miner" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
