Pikemen
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The cages filled and were engulfed, and rose again, the shaft swallowing its ration of trammers and putters and
pikemen
; while on the metal floors the landers pushed the trains with a sound of thunder.
More example sentences with word pikemen
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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