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They were by the side of old workings, a very deep abandoned
gallery
of Gaston-Marie, where, ten years earlier, an explosion of fire-damp had set the seam alight; and it was still burning behind the clay wall which had been built there and was kept constantly repaired, in order to limit the disaster.
The
gallery
was too wide for her to get a purchase on the timber on both sides; her naked feet were twisted in the rails where they sought a point of support, while she slowly moved on, her arms stiffened in front, and her back breaking.
you damned worm!"His voice was lost afar in the black gallery, and not a breath replied.
He was at a square in the great haulage
gallery
which formerly led to Gaston-Marie.
The child alone appeared mounted on the gallery, behind the whirlwinds of white steam, filled with delight and grinning broadly in the joy of unchaining this hurricane.
Other obstacles also protected him, the suffocating heat of the passage, a hundred and twenty metres of dangerous descent, then the painful gliding on all fours for a quarter of a league between the narrowed walls of the
gallery
before discovering the brigand's cave full of plunder.
Above the north
gallery
of Mirou the ground sank in to such an extent, that the Joiselle road, for the distance of a hundred metres, had been swallowed up as though by the shock of an earthquake; and the Company, disturbed at the rumours raised by these accidents, paid the owners for their vanished fields without bargaining.
It was said that two captains had been buried at the Victoire; there was an inundation at Feutry-Cantel, it had been necessary to wall up a
gallery
for the length of a kilometre at Saint-Thomas, where the ill-kept timbering was breaking down everywhere.
And he went on talking, playing to the
gallery
with volleys of abuse, which served to excite him.
The old horse slowly pulled, dragging his dead comrade through so narrow a
gallery
that he could only shake himself at the risk of taking the skin off.
This gang went to the end of the north gallery, nearly three kilometres away, to clear out a landslip which was stopping up a
gallery
in the Dix-Huit-Pouces seam.
At this end of the
gallery
the gang formed a sort of advance guard at the very extremity of the mine, now without communication with the other stalls.
But the beast quivered all over his skin, and Mouque forcibly drew him to the haulage
gallery.
Almost at the same moment as Mouque and Bataille were disappearing at the end of a gallery, there was a crackling in the air, followed by the prolonged noise of a fall.
From every
gallery
rows of workers came rushing up, trying to take the cages by assault.
The captains and old miners whom he consulted were agreed on one point: in the face of the rising water the men had certainly come up from
gallery
to
gallery
to the highest cuttings, so that they were, without doubt, driven to the end of some upper passages.
But they went in vain through every practicable gallery; no echo returned to them.
He thought of the little soldier lying beneath the rocks, fearing lest they should trouble his sound sleep; but that side of the mine was beneath the water, and, besides, their investigations were directed more to the left, in the west
gallery.
His
gallery
was soon in advance of the others.
Fortunately, the
gallery
rose with an imperceptible slope, and they proceeded for two hundred metres, struggling against the flood, which was not now gaining on them.
They delayed and were left fifty metres behind; he was lifting her, in spite of her resistance, when the
gallery
was suddenly stopped up; an enormous block fell in and separated them from the others.
However, they were able to breathe for a few minutes when they reached the first gallery, which was still free.
As he escaped, a final downfall behind his back had closed the
gallery.
The brains had be-spattered the roof of the gallery, and a purple jet flowed from the wound, like the continuous jet of a spring.
They saw it; it was entering the
gallery.
They soon caught the sounds of the pick; the work of approaching them was beginning, a
gallery
was being opened.
The
gallery
descended in the bed; perhaps several were being opened, for there were always three men hewing.
For nine days the work of their deliverance had been going on, and they were for the first time taking a few steps in the
gallery
when a fearful commotion threw them to the ground.
It was only in the Réquillart
gallery
that he recognized someone standing before him, the engineer, Négrel; and these two men, with their contempt for each other--the rebellious workman and the sceptical master--threw themselves on each other's necks, sobbing loudly in the deep upheaval of all the humanity within them.
It was by a charitable exception that the Company, pitying the fate of this unhappy woman, so cruelly afflicted, had allowed her to go down again at the age of forty; and as it seemed difficult to set her again at haulage work, she was employed to manipulate a small ventilator which had been installed in the north gallery, in those infernal regions beneath Tartaret, where there was no movement of air.
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