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Usage examples of coalminers.

Nobody wanted to go anywhere near that yard even though there were coalminers laid up all over the place there and all you had to do to get in was climb over this cyclone fence had no razor wire on it.

For coalminers in Appalachia or textile workers in the French provinces, however, this proves to be excruciatingly painful.

It turned out that the coalminers of Sarang, men whose lives were spent boring pathways through the earth -- "parting" it, one might say -- could not stomach the notion that a girl could do the same, with a wave of her hand, for the sea.

A Pinkerton detective, he had infiltrated into the Mollie Maguires, a secret terrorist organization of Irish coalminers in Pennsylvania.