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

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

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

Surgeon Miller recalled the 1914 ramming of the Empress of Ireland in the St. Lawrence River by a Danish collier, whose panicked captain rashly backed away, left the liner with a gaping hole.

From Time Magazine Archive

Another story of the Bishop's grandfather follows: My grandfather was once baptizing a small collier boy of three or four years old at Workington.

From Lighter Moments from the Notebook of Bishop Walsham How by How, Frederick Douglas