Pikemen in example sentence

In the afternoon the workers in the earth cutting took the rubbish left at the bottom of the gallery by the pikemen, and cleared out the exhausted section of the seam, in which they destroyed the wood, being only careful about the lower and upper roads for the haulage.

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He was working in a set; there were four pikemen associated in his cutting, himself, Zacharie, Levaque, and Chaval.

Chapter 4THE four pikemen had spread themselves one above the other over the whole face of the cutting.

When these fragments, retained by the plank, had collected round them, the pikemen disappeared, buried in the narrow cleft.

Behind the pikemen nearly three metres of the seam were clear, and they had not yet taken the precaution of supporting the rock, having grown careless of danger and miserly of their time.

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