The masters attempted to evict the pitmenfrom their houses, an attempt which the pitmen met partly by serious riot and resistance, and partly by destroying the houses they were forced to leave.
Ye pitmen lads, so blithe and gay, Who meet to tipple each pay-day, Down on your marrow bones and pray, Success unto the Coal Trade!
Then to parade the Pitmen went, Wi' hearts byeth stout an' strang, man; Gad smash the French!
Never were a body of men more astonished than were the pitmen of the Vaughan when they heard that young Jack Simpson was appointed a deputy viewer, with the special charge of the ventilation of the mine.
Then arose a cheer, echoed again and again, and then half-a-dozen fleet-footed boys started for Stokebridge with the news that some of the imprisoned pitmenwere still alive.
The number of youngpitmen and lads from the surrounding villages were as large as ever, and there was no lack of lasses in gay bonnets and bright dresses.
The book on gardening was a special favourite, and soon the pitmen were astonished to see changes in the tiny plots of ground behind their houses.
The six o'clock train brought twenty policemen from Birmingham, and these at once took charge of the schoolhouse, and relieved the pitmen of their charge.
The other pitmen remained in charge of the wounded of both sides, and the rest of the party were sent back to Mr. Brook's to fetch the women and girls.
Mrs. Haden repeated her story, and said that Harry's father and mother were getting a body of pitmen to help them.
The prisoners were brought together, five of the pitmenwith twenty of the lads marched with those able to walk, to the village, where they shut them up in the school-room.
No trifle, nor even a great obstacle, could stand in the way of Ivan's wishes, and his wish and his pride was to work the Bondavara mine without any help but what his pitmen gave him.
The pitmen call one Stormy Weather, the other Bad Weather; and these two evil spirits haunt every coal-mine, under different names.
Groups of pitmen collected on the vacant space between the two houses.
The Killingworth pitmenhad the most perfect confidence in their engine-wright, and they readily volunteered to follow him.
To this day the Geordy lamp continues in regular use in the Killingworth Collieries, and the Killingworth pitmen have expressed to the writer their decided preference for it compared with the Davy.
The pitmen used to expostulate with him on these occasions, believing the experiments to be fraught with danger.
Once he tried to explain to some of the pitmen how the earth was round, and kept turning round.
Then he astonished the pitmen by attaching an alarm to the clock of the watchman whose duty it was to call them betimes in the morning.
I assure you, not a little was thought of that piece of work by the pitmen when it was put up, and began to tell its tale of time.
The rudest possible means were adopted of producing light sufficient to enable the pitmen to work by.
Pitmen are paid fortnightly on the Friday: the following day is 'pay-Saturday.
Still, even so, several of the workmen had been suffocated, and one of the pitmen asked Geordie in dismay whether nothing could be done to prevent such terrible disasters in future.
The result of his thought was the apparatus still affectionately known to the pitmenas "the Geordie lamp.
The pitmen want to carry him back on his mattress on their shoulders.
The pitmen look at her with such compassionate reverence!
Then he astonished the pitmen by attaching an alarum to the clock of the watchman whose duty it was to call them betimes in the morning.
The pitmen used to expostulate with him on these occasions, believing his experiments to be fraught with danger.
Old Tommy," as his brother miners of every degree loved to call him, was chiefly known to the pitmen at large as a Unionist.
His reply was characteristic, but correct: "I know thepitmen better than you, and there is no fear.
This engine was accordingly subjected to a trial (as Stray Park engine had been in 1815), which was superintended and conducted by many of the principal mine agents, engineers, and pitmen of other mines.
If the history of the labour of this locality were written, it would be found that "strikes" amongst the pitmen were the rule, and continuous labour the exception.
The pitmen in the Dudley district are always, in fact, in an incipient state of strike, or else in strike itself.
As soon as the explosion had been heard, the wives and children of the pitmen rushed to the working pit.
On some occasions the pitmen have opened with their picks crevices, or fissures, in the coal or shale, which have emitted as much as seven hundred hogsheads of fire-damp in a minute.
Persons too were not wanting to agitate the minds of the relatives with disbelief in the report of the pitmen who had lately descended to explore the mine.
Its departure was hailed by the shouts and threats of a gang of pitmen from the Blackett colliery, but nothing like another fight occurred, thanks to the vigilance of Fairburn the elder.
Seeing a great crowd of the Blackett pitmen arrive with a run, George had felt that he could be of no more use, and slipping into the wood had made for home.
The Fairburn pitmen had declined to be mixed up in the quarrel, as they called it.
George gave a word of caution to the pitmenwhen they left work that afternoon.
So great was the horror and disgust of all parties with the sight of the body of the poor wretch dangling in chains by the side of a public road, that great gratitude was expressed when the pitmen took it down one dark night.
At one of the great meetings of pitmen held in the spring of 1832 the Marquis of Londonderry attended on horseback to remonstrate with them.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pitmen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
