collier

Example Sentences

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My grandfather had been a collier in northern England, my father a career Marine sergeant.

From New York Times • Dec. 17, 2021

The Bywell Castle ploughed straight into the starboard side of the Princess Alice, which weighed less than a third of the 890-ton collier.

From BBC • Sep. 2, 2018

It looked to him as though the collier was heading straight for the smaller boat but he thought little of it, having faith the Bywell Castle would alter its path.

From BBC • Sep. 2, 2018

Red-bearded son of a Derbyshire collier, he was famed for his sincerity, psychological subtlety.

From Time Magazine Archive

Thus Grim the black collier, whose living is so loose, As he doth walk the commons ore, sometimes he steals a goose.

From A History of the Cries of London Ancient and Modern by Hindley, Charles