Use mines in a sentence
Sentences ending with mines
- He is so young, and it is so horrible in the mines. [10]
- And now, if you'll excuse me, Mr. Paret, I'll lay a few mines. [9]
- Twenty ample fortunes would not timber one of the greatest of those silver mines. [5]
- Meantime the camp was filling up with people, and there was a constantly growing excitement about our Humboldt mines. [5]
- The prophetess kissed the poor desolate wife's forehead, glanced at her as if she had neglected her in some way, and then questioned the messengers with urgent eagerness concerning their news of Reuben, who had been dragged to the mines. [10]
- Can you see the people at the mines? [11]
- The fact is, the freighting business had grown to such important proportions that there was nearly as much excitement over suddenly acquired toll-road fortunes as over the wonderful silver mines. [5]
- Why does not the employer say to his workmens, "This is our war, yours and mines. [9]
- So I bought the cuckoo clock; and if I ever get home with it, he is "my meat," as they say in the mines. [5]
- We were in that portion of the Ophir known as the "north mines. [5]
Short sentences using mines
- The new mines. [5]
Sentences containing mines two or more times
- And he would see the gold mines and the silver mines, and maybe go about of an afternoon when his work was done, and pick up two or three pailfuls of shining slugs, and nuggets of gold and silver on the hillside. [5]
- In this I do not mean you shall go off to St. Louis, or the lead mines, or the gold mines in California, but I mean for you to go at it for the best wages you can get close to home in Coles County. [7]
- Siptah's confederates had been taken to the Ethiopian gold mines instead of to the copper mines. [10]
More example sentences with the word mines in them
- I shall watch your going on"--(he did not say goings on)--"your Alpine course, with clear memories of things and hours dearer to me than all the world, and with which I would not have parted for the mines of the Rand. [11]
- Now, you set your foot on shore In Novo Orbe; here's the rich Peru: And there within, sir, are the golden mines, Great Solomon's Ophir!---- B. Jonson The supper at Col. [5]
- Thus, after seven years of vicissitudes, ended a "pleasure trip" to the silver mines of Nevada which had originally been intended to occupy only three months. [5]
- Without that it would be unable to develop its mines, build its roads, work to advantage and without great waste its fruitful land, establish manufactures or enter upon a prosperous industrial career. [5]
- Nowhere in the world is there such a concentration of rich mines as at Johannesburg. [5]
- His mines were worked out, too, and the market was not so good; he had supplied it too well. [11]
- Prosperity followed, commerce with the world began, by and by rich mines of the noble metals were opened, immigrants flowed in, capital likewise. [5]
- The weary gangs were gone to rest; a bright fire still blazed in front of the house of the superintendent of the mines, and round it squatted in a circle the overseers and the subalterns of the troops. [10]
- The main body were drawn up in front of the mines and, familiar with the signal which requested negotiations, asked their commander for an interview. [10]
- Before General Wilkinson went to New Orleans the Spaniards seized our flat boats and cargoes and flung our traders into prison, ay, and sent them to the mines of Brazil. [9]
- You know perfectly well there are no rich mines here--of course you do. [5]
- I knew the way through the mines outside, and just escaped by the skin of my teeth. [11]
- Next I entered upon an affluent career in Virginia City, and by a judicious investment of labor and the capital of friends, became the owner of about all the worthless wild cat mines there were in that part of the country. [5]
- He was but too well aware of the weakness of the garrison of the turquoise mines and knew that he could expect no aid from home. [10]
- If you wish to visit one of those mines, you may walk through a tunnel about half a mile long if you prefer it, or you may take the quicker plan of shooting like a dart down a shaft, on a small platform. [5]
- If necessity requires, to the mines with the siren! [10]
- We are glad to know that New York capital has been enlisted in the development of the mines of this region. [5]
- We cannot pretend to keep track of the multiplicity of mines and shares which lure the gold-hunters, pecking away at the flinty ledges, usually in the snow. [5]
- New mines were to be purchased, extending over a certain large area; wide coal deposits; little strips of railroad to tap them. [9]
- Pictou is said to be a thriving place, and its streets have a cindery appearance, betokening the nearness of coal mines and the presence of furnaces. [4]
- For a long time after one of the great Virginia mines had been incorporated, about fifty feet of the original location were still in the hands of a man who had never signed the incorporation papers. [5]
- There is no timber of any consequence in Palestine--none at all to waste upon fires--and neither are there any mines of coal. [5]
- Every one of these wild cat mines--not mines, but holes in the ground over imaginary mines--was incorporated and had handsomely engraved "stock" and the stock was salable, too. [5]
- The mines in the Sinai peninsula, where more convict labor was needed, were the goal of these unfortunate men. [10]
- My experience in the service of one of the most prominent of New York lawyers stood me in good stead, and gradually, in addition to a heterogeneous business of mines and lumber, I began to pick up a few clients. [9]
- The daughter of the noble Thomas has condescended to weave it with the help of that woman--a skilled weaver, she--to spread it before us in order to mislead us, and so to save her faithful servant from imprisonment, from the mines, or from death. [10]
- The ores of the mines in this district somewhat resemble those of the Sheba mine in Humboldt. [5]
- In our day the mines are worked upon scientific principles, under the guidance of the ablest mining-engineering talent procurable in America. [5]
- San Francisco with the mines above-ground,--and some of 'em under the sidewalks. [6]
- In the mines the desire to set snares for husbands and sons soon vanishes. [10]
- It is believed that the produce of the mines of precious metals in that region has during the year reached, if not exceeded, $100,000,000 in value. [7]
- I have said that nature has so shaped our mountains as to furnish most excellent facilities for the working of our mines. [5]
- And to think that Alexas--but for your interposition he would have succeeded--meant to send her to the mines! [10]
- But I have struck my tent in Esmeralda, and I care for no mines but those which I can superintend myself. [5]
- The prisoners of state who were being transported to the mines made slow progress. [10]
- Counter mines were started, and through the narrow walls of earth commands and curses came. [9]
- The lad reached South Australia just in time to help discover the Burra-Burra copper mines. [5]
- I would have sooner, I believe, wrought by the side of any rascally redemptioner in the iron mines of the Patapsco than have gone to Eton. [9]
- But the deliverer soon reached the first convicts, and the glad tidings that he had come to save them from their misery speedily extended to the inmost depths of the mines. [10]
- For years we sold them steel billets from which to make their plates, and three months ago they serve notice on us that they are getting ready to make their own billets, they buy mines north of the lakes and are building their plant. [9]
- Leaving Ingolby's house, she had seen men from the ranches and farms and mines beyond Lebanon driving or riding into the town, as though to a fair or fete-day. [11]
- All mines were royal property, and there were a good many of them. [5]
- Take him all round, pard, there never was a bullier man in the mines. [5]
- I delight in Regalia, so called, of the kind not worn by kings, nor obtaining their diamonds from the mines of Golconda. [6]
- It has no reference to any other mine or mines. [7]
- Neither mines, forests, quarries, water-ways, nor textile fabrics can be handled to best advantage without scientific knowledge and skilled labor. [4]
- Though I can promise no mines of gold, the Hollanders are an example of my project, whose endeavors by fishing cannot be suppressed by all the King of Spain's golden powers. [4]
- After the melancholy procession had passed around a steep mountain whose summit was crowned with a small Egyptian temple of Hathor and a number of monuments, it approached a bend in the valley which led to the ravine where the mines were located. [10]
- But in all probability I should be still pegging away at mines and lumber, and drawing up occasional leases and contracts, had it not been for Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke, of Philadelphia. [9]
- I've got money, plenty of money--medicine, mines, land got it for me. [11]
- A hundred thousand people poured into Melbourne from England and other countries in a single month, and flocked away to the mines. [5]
- The successful mines pay great dividends, yet the rock is not rich, from a Californian point of view. [5]
- A railroad had passed close to one margin of the township, some mines had been opened in the county, in which a village calling itself a city had grown big enough to have a newspaper and Fourth of July orations. [6]
- Regretful resolutions were passed and various committees appointed; among others, a committee of one was deputed to call on the minister, a fragile, gentle, spiritual new fledgling from an Eastern theological seminary, and as yet unacquainted with the ways of the mines. [5]
- Having seen the ores and assays, we are satisfied that the mines of the District are very valuable--anything but wild-cat. [5]
- True, not ten of these mines were yielding rock worth hauling to a mill, but everybody said, "Wait till the shaft gets down where the ledge comes in solid, and then you will see! [5]
- Maybe he'll tire of the handsome rip--for handsome she is, like a yellow lily growin' out o' mud--and go back to his lawful wife, that believes he's at the mines, when he's drinkin' and colloguin' wid a fly-away. [11]
- Now, on top of all this, there's another thing; a jay can out-swear any gentleman in the mines. [5]
- New Glasgow is not many miles from Pictou, on the great Cumberland Strait; the inhabitants build vessels, and strangers drive out from here to see the neighboring coal mines. [4]
- If it were not for attracting speculators, we should delight to speak of the beds of coal, the quarries of marble, the mines of gold. [4]
- The gold is not evenly distributed through the surface dirt, as in ordinary placer mines, but is collected in little spots, and they are very wide apart and exceedingly hard to find, but when you do find one you reap a rich and sudden harvest. [5]
- She could make no serious objection to his statement that the new trial might not, it is true, end in a sentence of death, but the verdict would probably be transportation to the mines, or something of the sort. [10]
- So, the very next day I exposed my hidden schools, my mines, and my vast system of clandestine factories and workshops to an astonished world. [5]
- The names of new mines appear constantly and vanish almost at a touch, suggesting the fairy-like evanescence of their riches. [5]
- Something else was needed to make their future as dignified and beautiful as he had beheld it before his mind's eye on his journey to the mines. [10]
- I know as much as most of you about mines, and I'll make one to follow you, if you'll lead--you've been down, I know. [11]
- He was at Moffitt first, and then he was at Chicago, and then he had gone out to Denver to look after some mines he had out there, and a railroad or two; and now he was at Moffitt again. [8]
- At last the mines were opened and Joshua himself seized a lamp and pressed forward into the hot galleries where the naked prisoners of state, loaded with fetters, were hewing the copper ore from the walls. [10]
- There were more mines than miners. [5]
- Of course these mines cave in, in places, occasionally, and then it is worth one's while to take the risk of descending into them and observing the crushing power exerted by the pressing weight of a settling mountain. [5]
- In regard to mines and miners generally, no change of policy by the Government has been decided on, or even thought of, so far as I know. [7]
- One of these mines alone employed six hundred and seventy-five men, and in the matter of elections the adage was, "as the 'Gould and Curry' goes, so goes the city. [5]
- A citizen told me a curious thing about those mines. [5]
- The corridor is long, and walking through it is difficult; but compared with the road to the mines, it is as smooth and easy as the Street of the King. [10]
- He expected to live to see the day, when the youth of the south would resort to its mines, its workshops, its laboratories, its furnaces and factories for practical instruction in all the great industrial pursuits. [5]
- The disarmed Egyptians, like their companions at the copper mines, were sent home. [10]
- We had not less than thirty thousand "feet" apiece in the "richest mines on earth" as the frenzied cant phrased it--and were in debt to the butcher. [5]
- One only had learned from a released prisoner that Milcah's husband was living in the copper mines of the province of Bech, in the neighborhood of Mt. [10]
- Saturn has large lead mines, but no other metal is found on this planet. [6]
- And so I know the mines and the miners interiorly as well as Bret Harte knows them exteriorly. [5]
- I started an inspection tramp through the southern mines of California. [5]
- Since I desire, in this chapter, to say an instructive word or two about the silver mines, the reader may take this fair warning and skip, if he chooses. [5]
- We received everywhere in the Provinces courtesy and kindness, which were not based upon any expectation that we would invest in mines or railways, for the people are honest, kindly, and hearty by nature. [4]
- The mines lay in the plain of Koptos, not far from the Red Sea. [10]
- Every rich strike in the mines created one or two. [5]
- As a dabbler in mines he had been out of his element. [11]
- We had expected immediate returns of bullion, but were only afflicted with regular and constant "assessments" instead--demands for money wherewith to develop the said mines. [5]
- So, you see, if mines are to be bought or sold, or tunnels run, or shafts sunk, parties have to come to me--and me only. [5]
- I am sure I have never seen in the gold and silver mines any madness, fury, frenzy to get suddenly rich which was even remotely comparable to that which raged in France in the Bubble day. [5]
- One steamer pounding here from the north with men who bring commands from the Effendina, and those thousands out yonder beyond my mines and moats and guns will begin to melt away. [11]
- The capital which has developed the mines came from England, the mining engineers from America. [5]
- At their first halting place he was commanded to explain how he had succeeded in having Pentaur taken to the mines, instead of to the quarries of Chennu. [10]
- Two bats, which had come from the mines and circled round the fire darted past her like ghosts. [10]
- Cleopatra, the Syrian had asserted, intended to send the young beauty to the mines or into exile, and severely punish Dion; but both had made their escape. [10]
- When the mines gave out the town fell into decay, and in a few years wholly disappeared--streets, dwellings, shops, everything--and left no sign. [5]
- I shall not garble the extract, but put it in just as it appeared in the Daily Territorial Enterprise: But what about our mines? [5]
- In Nevada, Circumstance furnished me the silver fever and I went into the mines to make a fortune, as I supposed; but that was not the idea. [5]
- Foremen and laborers from neighboring mines, and no end of experienced loafers from the village, visited the tunnel from time to time, and their verdicts were always the same and always disheartening--"No coal in that hill. [5]
- It was not for nothing that Asclepiodorus--as you yourself told me quite lately, not more than a week ago I am sure--reminded you how often those condemned to forced labor in the mines had their relations sent after them. [10]
- The road led first through a level mountain valley, then it crossed the pass known as the "Sword-point ", which was the only means of communication between the mines and the Red Sea. [10]
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