Shaft in example sentence

For half an hour the shaft went on devouring in this fashion, with more or less greedy gulps, according to the depth of the level to which the men went down, but without stopping, always hungry, with its giant intestines capable of digesting a nation.

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I'm 150 feet down an illegal mine shaft in Ghana.

I hear voices talking, but mostly the shaft is this cacophony of men coughing, and stone being broken with primitive tools.

When my hand slips, I suddenly remember a miner I had met days before who had lost his grip and fell countless feet down that shaft.

These miners are enslaved in a mine shaft in another part of Ghana.

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