What is "colliers"

Usage examples of "colliers".

When it was fine, he would go into the street, squat on his heels as colliers do, with his back against the wall of his parlour, and call to the passers-by, in greeting, one after another.

There lived the colliers who worked in the little gin-pits two fields away.

And all over the countryside were these same pits, some of which had been worked in the time of Charles II, the few colliers and the donkeys burrowing down like ants into the earth, making queer mounds and little black places among the corn-fields and the meadows.

Morel lay in bed, listening to the rain, and the feet of the colliers from Minton, their voices, and the bang, bang of the gates as they went through the stile up the field.

So the colliers found their women had a new standard of their own, rather disconcerting.

The colliers of the five pits were paid on Fridays, but not individually.

They stayed indoors till the colliers were all gone home, till it was thick dark, and the street would be deserted.

Then she waited, a tall, thin, shrew-faced woman, standing on the hill brow, almost like a menace to the poor colliers who were toiling up.

The colliers, their faces scarcely blackened, were trooping home again.

His manners in the house were the same as he used among the colliers down pit.

In Ilkeston the colliers were waiting in gangs for the public-houses to open.

Paul was interested in the street and in the colliers with their dogs.

Nor did I know how long it would take to reach Colliers Wood where Margaret lived, or what I should say to her parents.

What a relief when the train came and I was leaving Colliers Wood with all its associations.

If I had not made that fateful journey to Colliers Wood, my task would have been easier.