 Newspapers duly specifying it, two miners deep down in the shaft were engaged putting in a shot for blasting : they had completed their affair, and were about to give the signal for being hoisted up, — one at a time was all their coadjutor at the top...  Golden Deeds in Character Education - Page 238by Massillon Alexander Cassidy - 1924 - 243 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Carlyle - Authors, English - 1851 - 362 pages
...affair, and were about to give the signal for being hoisted up, — one at a time was all their coadjutor at the top could manage, and the second was to kindle...mount with all speed. Now it chanced while they were both still below, one of them thought the match too long ; tried to break it shorter, took a couple... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - Authors, English - 1851 - 360 pages
...deep down in the shaft were engaged putting in a shot for blasting : they had completed their affair, and were about to give the signal for being hoisted up, — one at a time was all their coadjutor at the top could manage, and the second was to kindle the match, and then mount with... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1852 - 362 pages
...affair, and were about to give the signal for being hoisted up, — one at a time was all their coadjutor at the top could manage, and the second was to kindle...match, and then mount with all speed. Now it chanced that while they were both still below, one of them thought the match too long ; tried to break it shorter,... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1852 - 396 pages
...deep down in the shaft were engaged putting in a shot for blasting : they had completed their affair, and were about to give the signal for being hoisted up, — one at a time was all their coadjutor at the top could manage, and the second was to kindle the match, and then mount with... | |
 | Henry Allon - Christianity - 1852 - 620 pages
...deep down in the shaft, were engaged putting in a shot ibr blasting; they had completed their affair, and were about to give the signal for being hoisted up. One at a time was all their coadjutor at the top could manage, and the second was to kindle the match, and •*hen mount... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - Authors, English - 1857 - 436 pages
...deep down in the shaft were engaged putting in a shot for blasting : they had completed thenaffair, and were about to give the signal for being hoisted up, — one at a time was all their coadjutor at the top could manage, and the second was to kindle the match, and then mount with... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - Authors, English - 1857 - 432 pages
...deep down in the shaft were' engaged putting in a shot for blasting : they had completed their affair, and were about to give the signal for being hoisted up, — one at a time was all their coadjutor at the top could manage, and the second was to kindle the mateh, and then mount with... | |
 | 436 pages
...Cornish mine, two miners were engaged in putting in a shot for blasting. They had completed their work, and were about to give the signal for being hoisted up. One at a time was as much us the man at the windlass could manage: and the second was to kindle the match and then mount... | |
 | 1861 - 792 pages
...Cornish mine, two miners were engaged in putting in a shot for blasting. They had completed their work, and were about to give the signal for being hoisted up. One at a t ime was as much m the man at thu windlass could manage ; and the second was to kindle the mateh,... | |
 | William Jordan Unwin - 1862 - 374 pages
...Corn-ish mine, two mi-ners were bu-sy put-ting in a shot for blast-ing. They had fm-ished their work, and were a-bout to give the sig-nal for be-ing hoist-ed up. One at a time was all that the man at the wind-lass could man-age. Whilst the first was reach-ing the top, the sec-ond was... | |
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