Putters
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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 putters
And Maheu was in despair; another piece of ill-luck; one of the best of his
putters
gone without any chance of replacing her at once.
A shrill girl's voice said at last:"One of them must be on Mouquette, sure enough!" There was a roar of laughter, and the
putters
of the whole seam held their sides.
Haulage began again on the nine levels, and one only heard the regular calls of the trammers, and the snorting of the
putters
arriving at the upbrow and steaming like over-laden mares.
At last he said to his wife:"It's Maheu who brings me this gentleman, one of his putters, to see if there is a room for him upstairs, and if we can give him credit for a fortnight."
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