1 The mines had made the halls wealthy.
2 But for their good even more than mine.
3 I mean Nero's mine slaves and his field slaves.
4 Tevershall had once been a famous mine, and had made famous money.
5 Under Mrs Bolton's influence, Clifford began to take a new interest in the mines.
6 They don't like these new fangled mines, such a depth, and all machinery to work them.
7 The mines, the industry, had a will of its own, and this will was against the gentleman-owner.
8 The head-stock and pit-bank of the mine itself were insignificant among the huge new installations.
9 New mining villages crowded on the park, and the squire felt somehow that the population was alien.
10 If there were coal under Sandringham, I would open a mine on the lawns, and think it first-rate landscape gardening.
11 For her fear of the mining and iron Midlands affected her with a queer feeling that went all over her, like influenza.
12 He really felt, when he had his periods of energy and worked so hard at the question of the mines, as if his sexual potency were returning.
13 They looked up the shallow valley at the mine, and beyond it, at the black-lidded houses of Tevershall crawling like some serpent up the hill.
14 He even roused himself to go to the mines once more: and when he was there, he went down in a tub, and in a tub he was hauled out into the workings.
15 And beyond these blocks of dwellings, at the back, rose all the astonishing and frightening overhead erections of a really modern mine, chemical works and long galleries, enormous, and of shapes not before known to man.
16 He began to read again his technical works on the coal-mining industry, he studied the government reports, and he read with care the latest things on mining and the chemistry of coal and of shale which were written in German.
17 And beyond that again, in the wide rolling regions of the castles, smoke waved against steam, and patch after patch of raw reddish brick showed the newer mining settlements, sometimes in the hollows, sometimes gruesomely ugly along the sky-line of the slopes.
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