What is "prospectors"

Usage examples of "prospectors".

There were, all in all, thirteen thousand eight hundred forty-two Gateway prospectors, first to last.

There are also, to be sure, a number of guests of former prospectors, as in the case of Mrs.

A lot of the others were people I would have loved to have for friends, because all us old prospectors have a lot in common.

According to the rules, the value of the artifact and its contents was estimated at two biffion eight hundred million and some odd dollars, divided by the number of prospectors who reached there alive, twenty-three.

Even the original prospectors came to love it, I think, though of course they wished they could see their families again.

Gateway prospectors had drowned their worries in in the old days-and let him talk.

When Klara and I were prospectors together, it was about a dozen mulberry and orange trees and not many more than that bushes.

Spindle and the sights of the partying Gateway prospectors faded away.

You and hundreds other crazy, desperate Heechee-ship prospectors from Gateway.

It was the kind of look the other prospectors gave you after you had signed up for a mission that might make you rich and was a lot more likely to kill you dead.

As one of the last of the Gateway prospectors, she had taken her chances on four hairy science missions, and after she was vastened she wandered all over the Galaxy.

The two of them, with other prospectors, found themselves trapped in a black hole.

The prospectors paid full fare to get to Peggys Planet, or their companies did, and every one of them surely had a paid-up return ticket in his pocket.

Especially as a lot of the old Heechee navigation charts had been unraveled, or at least partly unraveled, while Walthers was flying shepherds and prospectors around Peggys.

There were these two prospectors who discovered a great prize inside a black hole and could not think how to get it out.