Examples of collier

• References to affrays with poaching colliers frequently appear in the portraits of gamekeepers in this journal.

• Since the introduction of regulation in 1850, occupational mortality had steadily improved amongst colliers.

• In the course of this inspection a shaft collapses, trapping him and fourteen colliers.

• On the contrary, it makes no provision for farmers, colliers, common laborers, carters, and carpenters without whom there would be no commonwealth at all.

• The specific vulnerability of colliers is certainly not a new phenomenon.

• Serious incursions from the colliers occurred in 1727, 1731, 1735 and 1738.

• However, this differential is more pronounced among labourers and colliers, suggesting that, at the lower social levels, harsher conditions preyed more on the vulnerable and sharpened this selective effect.

• Although the number of vessels engaged in the trade shrank somewhat, the sailing colliers which had been around 100 tons in the seventeenth century were averaging 312 by 1730.