How To Use Collie In A Sentence
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It was a lovely dog. It was a cross between a collie and a golden retriever.
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With its repair ship, colliers, and hospital ships, it was a forerunner of the Task Force concept used four decades later in another war against Japan.
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In the year 1698, Jeremy Collier, a distinguished nonjuring clergyman, published _A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English
English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction
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They formed an alliance with Coal Investments, but their bid for six collieries was eventually rejected.
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Well-known breeds -- including dachshunds, poodles and collies -- will participate, as well as breeds you'll seldom see outside a dog show, such as the Chinese crested, Tibetan spaniel and spinone Italiano.
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To speed up a Border Collie, pitch the voice high and quick.
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The Grane was a 1122 ton Norwegian collier, torpedoed by UB80 on 9 March 1918 and more broken up.
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Through the efforts at Collier's Reserve, there are now 200 identified species of birds on site and a growing population of rare gopher tortoises.
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The civic society is appealing for people connected with the colliery to come forward with recollections of life at the pit.
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It is an unusual design of ship, a collier with engine-room aft and wheelhouse amidships.
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Then I called the collier, and Wulfhere questioned him, and soon was glad as I that I had met with him, saying that in an hour we should be in safety.
A Thane of Wessex
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These skills had been honed during the late 1950s and early 60s at Cambridge, which he entered from the choir school at Southwell Minster in his home county of Nottinghamshire, where he was born the son of a collier and a teacher.
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MR. COLLIER'S anonymous annotator writes "tilled;" but surely this is a very artificial process to be performed by "spongy
Notes and Queries, No. 209, October 29 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc.
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Luke, who delivered a litter of puppies from the family's border collie last September, had passed the entrance test into the navy and had hoped to follow in his father's footsteps and become an artificer.
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By 1944, the Army accepted only five breeds: German shepherds, Belgian sheepdogs, Doberman pinschers, farm collies, and giant schnauzers.
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The depth of pits in the local collieries frequently exceeded 600 m underground.
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A collier, only 29 years of age, he also, like William Sykes, was a strong powerful man with a barrel chest and muscular stature.
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Assessing the available evidence about the life history of ‘The Recruited Collier,’ Roy Palmer concluded that Lloyd's ascription of it to Huxtable is untenable.
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He got some relief from a homoeopathic remedy he picked up at Tullivers herbs and wholefood shop in Colliergate, York.
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The Church of Ireland congregation too had good reason to celebrate during 2004 with the Rededication of the Colliery Church after 175 years since it was first consecrated.
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Having got the assistance of a number of colliers from the Castlecomer area they had made their way to the hill of Kilcumney and decided to camp there for the night.
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Shaw, and she focht like ten; there was mony a guidwife bure the mark of her neist day an 'mony a lang day after; and just in the hettest o' the collieshangie, wha suld come up (for his sins) but the new minister.
Merry Men
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In Newcastle the Hunter River is navigable by what I will call 60-mile colliers right up to Hexham and those colliers used to carry coal from Hexham down to Sydney.
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Clive Brill, the director, has had a good idea for the soundscape which doesn't quite work: the Volsci are Yorkshiremen, and the incidental music is therefore all in colliery brass band style.
April Books 3) From One To Zero: A Universal History of Numbers, by Georges Ifrah
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There's nae doot they're gey and chief got sin! he cam 'back, and she foun' oot wha created the collieshangie.
Doom Castle
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The certified dogs and their trainers include Mullins and her dog Sampson; Pat Duper and Lizzie, a Dachshund; Elizabeth McGlaune and Cappi, an Australian Shepherd; and Charlotte Heald and Molli, a Border Collie mix.
John Harden: Advocacy Center Certifies Four New Therapy Dogs
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The grandest, the undermanagers, overmen, engineers and surveyors lived nearest the colliery in streets with names: Thompson, Grant, West View.
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Among Kant's predecessors who employed explicitly antinomic arguments and who may have specifically influenced him were Arthur Collier in his treatment of space (Clavis universalis, 1713), and Christian August Crusius in his treatment of causality and freedom (Entwurf der nothwendigen
ANTINOMY OF PURE REASON
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Once the country's leading coal producer, in 1860 its colliers accounted for just 2.4 percent of the national total.
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They moved 350 miles to Cornwall where the collie cross vanished and spent all their spare time trying to track her down.
The Sun
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Thomas and Collier suggest that these components are interdependent and complex.
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Walter Collier offered his services as an escort, only too pleased to find an excuse to avoid playing rounders.
GOODBYE CURATE
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One of the most profoundly beautiful reggae songs ever made, Fisherman bathes the daily grind in a spiritual light, naming its titular anglers after four of the disciples (dubbed Fishers of Men by Jesus), though it's not known whether the original apostles also stopped off to see the local collie man.
Expecting Rain
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Collier's book is the story of a young man trying to find love and success in bohemian London in the 1920s.
MIND MELD: Non-Genre Books for Genre Readers
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When four months pregnant the mother, a multipara of 30, was startled by a black and white collie dog suddenly pushing against her and rushing out when she opened the door.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy
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They have watched the coal industry buckle and the collieries close.
Times, Sunday Times
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Robert was born when his father was still an obscure north-eastern colliery workman.
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They were soon at her side, two golden collies, closely followed by a burly man in a red-checked lumberjacket.
DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
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Tobias the cat lived in harmony with Daisy the Border collie, Timmy the mouse, and a peep of chickens.
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Mr Collier, who was one of the first five criers to perform, said: ‘This was my first real big championships.’
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If you call my collie a ` lang tyke, 'Hamish, I'll set him at you.
Steve Young
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Even today certain borzoi characteristics crop up in rough collie heads.
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Two colliers, besmutted wretches, plodding homeward from the 'pit' which is half a mile away.
A Life's Morning
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Indeed George Stephenson originally envisaged the railway system as an extension of the colliery system.
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Only the ‘dawgs’ will run up on you rappin', walking backwards in front of you, them wigwagging and yapping like little Collie dogs.
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The two-year subsidy is intended to stave off colliery closures until after the general election.
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I've seen Border Collies do that with their eyes, apparently in an attempt to hypnotise sheep into being corralled.
It's Me or the Dog: Cupcake Trance
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But as for chimney-sweeps, and collier-boys, and nailer lads, my sister has set good people to stop all that sort of thing; and very much obliged to her I am; for if she could only stop the cruel masters from ill-using poor children, I should grow handsome at least a thousand years sooner.
The Water Babies
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A spectral collie dog sits under a particular chair in the office, and at the other end of the room the figure of a man has been seen seated in another chair.
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That is why the fuel tax protestors are being decried as the new ‘enemy within’, as the Tories once dubbed Britain's colliers.
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John was one day lying under a bush in the scrog, when he was aware of a collie on the far hillside skulking down through the deepest of the heather with obtrusive stealth.
Memories and Portraits
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Two Border collies and a handler have been chasing geese on land and in a canoe.
The Goose May Be Cooked This Year
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‘The Empire State Building is making a concerted effort to reclaim some of its past glory,’ said David Hoffman, executive managing director of Colliers.
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This is another area which is changing out of all recognition since closure of the colliery and removal of sidings etc.
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She sat me down one day - I'd be about 10 or 11 years old - and told me how the colliers in her pit village went on strike over a five-and-a-half day week.
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This competition is sponsored annually by Canon Sean Collier, former Parish Priest of Borris in Ossory and staunch supporter of the billiard club.
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Collier outlined that equal pay within salary grades is enforced by the University.
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We chose a lovely nine-month-old cross-bred Labrador/collie female from the RSPCA at Landing Lane and she quickly made herself at home with the family.
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Earlier, Reeves had served as skipper of the new collier Jupiter, and when the Navy converted it to the first US aircraft carrier USS Langley in 1924, he became her first commander.
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Except in the immediate vicinity of the collieries, they suffer more from cold than when the woods and turbaries were open.
Sir Thomas More, or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society
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It was incredible that the wontedly dignified and sweet-tempered collie had thus returned a greeting.
Bruce
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This steam collier grounded off north Cornwall in 1916 and makes for an interesting dive if you don't mind a little deco, says John Liddiard.
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She went back to searching through her box of medicinals and didn't see the look of fury on the collie's face.
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What Le Figaro actually wrote was: "Mme Rice, tailleur noir, collier de perles et silhouette impeccablement droite, a redonne [sic] le 'la' de la 'nouvelle diplomatie' americaine [sic].
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The original Endeavour was built in Whitby in 1764 as a collier.
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The paper analyzes colliery general goods and materials management information system, then puts forward its goal, at last divides and depicts system functional modules.
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The Aquarian alsatian or the Capricorn collie would come to little harm from canine astrology.
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It was with great delight that Colin heard of the presence of his friend Mr. Collier, who was working on the plans for a model of Bryozoa, and who had with him his staff of glass-workers and modelers.
The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries
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Is there a secret society of colliers, an English Camorra, which is capable of destroying both train and passengers?
Tales of Terror and Mystery
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The colliery village's principle attractions are the driftwood mine, where the visitor is taken to the coalface, and the school, in which children can try out the desks and writing slates and play games of the period.
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I'd rather have you to myself, not share you with every collier in Nantlas as well as the South Wales Miners "Federation.
THE WHITE DOVE
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Relations between colliers and their employers were uneasy, often bitter; after decades of struggle, strikes were commonplace, absenteeism widespread.
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They have six dogs in training - all pure breed collies trained for competition.
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UK Coal admitted some equipment had been taken to some of its other pits but said the colliery would be sold to any prospective bidder.
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Other sources indicate the Irish setter was used in early breeding - the collie's sable color may be the indirect result of such a cross.
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More than 200 miners returned to the coalface yesterday after a colliery's future was assured for the next 20 years.
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Sadness over mining deaths I FEEL so incredibly sad about the miners who died and were hurt at Wearmouth Colliery.
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The organisation of services at collieries and contact with miners gave him great pleasure.
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The other guests, also pushed back like sheep by the uniformed border collies, stood by quietly, too.
A Stitch Before Dying
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`And is it for himself or for the collies, Scottish I assume, that an English teacher might be needed?
TO HIS JUST DESSERTS
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We've been combin" the town for ye, Uncle Jamie, and Fergus sure ye'd been caught up in the collieshangie yonder and maimed or killed.
A Breath of Snow and Ashes
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They have a wicked bearded collie called Dudley who I spent a lot of time winding up!
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I wanna a 3 - color female collie babe which its parents are all CH Champions.
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Multitudes of every rank thronged him; but especially the heathenized and embruted colliers near Bristol listened to the unknown gospel, and their awakened feelings were revealed to the preacher by his observing the white gutters made by the tears that ran down their grimy faces.
A History of American Christianity
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My sincere greetings and respects to the people of Grimethorpe and to the Grimethorpe Colliery Band.
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Sixty mineworkers defied a Coal Industry Tribunal order this week to disband their picket line outside Wesfarmers Premier Coal in Collie, Western Australia.
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These projects included the multiskilling of employees which, especially in mechanised collieries, was progressing well.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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Collier did so, and found that the moral of the Old Bachelor, the grave apophthegm which is to be a set-off against all the libertinism of the piece, is contained in the following triplet: --
Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3)
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They forage in bluebell woods by day and roost in trees at night, protected from predators by a pair of collie dogs.
Times, Sunday Times
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If we seek the real predecessor of the modern railroad track, we must go back three hundred years to the wooden rails on which were drawn the little cars used in English collieries to carry the coal from the mines to tidewater.
The Railroad Builders; a chronicle of the welding of the states
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Officials from the Department of Trade and Industry are visiting the colliery to talk to union leaders and to see for themselves the coal reserves still in the mine.
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But it is these values that are at odds with those of other local residents (regarded as incomers by the miners) who want to see the open-cast collieries in the area closed.
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Extract: A l'ouverture du procès, vers 10h40, Youssouf Fofana, le crâne rasé et portant un collier de barbe, vêtu d'une veste blanche, a affiché un large sourire.
£30,000 Question
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He remained a collier until he was 23, by which time he had become an agent of the Lanarkshire Miners Union.
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Both Nick Chacos and Matt Eusebio were hurt when they collied while attempting to block a kick in last week's win over Pembroke, and both will miss this week's game.
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We were a tramp collier, rusty and battered, with six thousand tons of coal in our hold.
SMALL-BOAT SAILING
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Legislation to correct this was proposed, as well as regulations on rockbursts and rockfalls, respirable dust, noise, truck and tramming accidents, radiation and colliery explosions.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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Almost all breeds are here ... although Border collies tend to dominate the proceedings.
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Clever collies Bethan and Pip are man's best friend in two different languages after the pets learned to understand Welsh.
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He read The Few: Summer 1940, the Battle of Britain by Philip Kaplan and Richard Collier.
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A good collie enters into the spirit of the hunt, up to a point.
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The petition requests the designation coincide with land in Hendry, Collier and Lee counties that the U.S.
Undefined
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As they stepped over the coaming, Collier took a lifeline harness and handed it to the big survivor.
LET NOT THE DEEP
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He drove them around his neighborhood, and they gawked and shot reels of film of the homes and streets of Collier Heights.
Burial for a King
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SEVEN collieries in the region are among nine mines to share a £16.5m Government handout designed to help safeguard their future.
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Others, however, say the bull terrier crosses never occurred, while some people suggest that Border collies or other sheepdogs participated in the Airedale's evolution.
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The local press ignored them, probably because there was no colliery in the community and there was therefore no local story of strike-breakers crossing picket lines.
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As if to reecho Collier's sentiments, Sullivan got up and demanded that
The Story of The American Legion
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A nailer is a man who makes nails.] that knock about the poor collier-boys; and the nailers that file off their lads 'noses and hammer their fingers; and all the master sweeps, like my master Grimes?
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 2
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There is enough money to keep the mineshafts open until next Tuesday, but after that the colliery will have to be ‘capped’ unless further funds can be found.
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At that time the mining workers' unions of the colliery supported the band financially, each miner paying a penny from his wages.
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So she bought as she was going home, and saw the colliers trailing from the pits, grey-black, distorted, one shoulder higher than the other, slurring their heavy ironshod boots.
Lady Chatterley's Lover
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Macarthur Coal Ltd, raising the ante in the battle for the collier which is now at the centre of three takeover bids.
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Next stop was at Collieston for a spot of lunch and some sea watching, following encouraging reports of big movements of petrels and shearwaters.
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The March meeting concluded with a social chat and a very nice supper hosted by Mary Delaney and Margaret Collier.
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Ralph further expanded the road haulage side and was one of the first coal merchants in the south to collect coal direct from collieries in South Wales and the Midlands.
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The other remaining pets are Zac, a black collie cross, Merlin the cat, Buttercup the rabbit and Albino ferrets Owen and Milly.
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Inspector Stephen Marais says he is looking for German shepherds, Rottweilers, Border collies, cocker spaniels, Labrador retrievers and kelpies to be trained in police work.
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In the mining towns of South Wales, colliers had pennies deducted from their wages to support their own libraries, more than 100 of them by 1934.
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He began his railway career as a porter at Clapham in the days when Ingleton Colliery was open and thousands of tons of coal passed through the station.
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No one wants a colliery on their doorstep or a coal mine under their home.
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He is not by any means the first collier who has been found to possess a very sweet tenor voice. Attired in his working clothes, with the pick and lighted lamp in his hand, he was cordially welcomed by two large houses on Monday.
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A specialist team abseiled down the quarry with an animal rope sling to rescue border collie Meg after she was spotted on a rock ledge three days after going missing from her Cliviger home.
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The carline skirled till ye could hear her at the Hangin 'Shaw, and she focht like ten; there was mony a guidwife bure the mark of her neist day an' mony a lang day after; and just in the hettest o 'the collieshangie, wha suld come up (for his sins) but the new minister.
Masterpieces of Mystery, Vol. 1 (of 4) Ghost Stories
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It was a lovely dog. It was a cross between a collie and a golden retriever.
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Last week Government consultants working on its new energy policy visited Maltby Colliery to hear the miners' views on its future.
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And this 1920s photograph of colliers at the Gambleside pit which was located on the far side of Clowbridge Reservoir near Dunnockshaw, shows mere boys among the workforce.
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ON April 25, 1915, an old collier, the River Clyde, steamed towards Cape Helles on the Turkish coast.
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Stainforth is just one of the communities that will be dealt a body blow if Hatfield colliery shuts.
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Very soon after the pilot left, Captain Henry George Kendall, on his first trip with the Empress, saw a low-lying collier coming up the river.
Bird Cloud
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We're also wanting to check the south side of the mountain above timber line in case they got from Leuthold-Collier back toward the Pearly Gates, which is the main summit route to -- of the south side of Mount Hood.
CNN Transcript Dec 18, 2006
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He has his two sheepdogs - collies Joe and Jeff - hot on his heels.
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The collie-dingo hybrids worked silently, and instead of working at the heads of the cattle, as most sheepdogs do, they worked from the rear, snapping at the heels of cattle when necessary.
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We got a phone call from our former sister-in-law who asked if we would take Scooter, a great cockapoo / border collie who was 8 years old.
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Border Collies have a high startle reflex, which can sometimes endanger their lives.
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A specialist team abseiled down the quarry with an animal rope sling to rescue border collie Meg after she was spotted on a rock ledge three days after going missing from her Cliviger home.
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Collier welcomes passion projects with antiheroes and slow-burning stories that may not attract broad audiences.
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However, there is no indication that the GMA mines entered into contractual agreements of this type, and there was certainly no owners' association in Nova Scotia to clip the colliers ' wings.
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Scrap plea: Police have appealed to scrap dealers to look out for brass electrical equipment stolen from Wearmouth Colliery.
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Our dog has border collie and blue heeler in her and was nippy and mouthy when she was younger.
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When I admitted the truth, the Collie laughed uproariously for what I thought was an unnecessarily long time, then cast aspersions on my parents.
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He had a border collie in his lap and the world at his feet.
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In close work (pens, yards, and chutes) in Australian summer heat, the kelpie (another variety of collie) has more stamina than a Border Collie.
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The Bearded Collie or beardie is the traditional dog of the Scottish shepherd, but was used to herd both sheep and cattle.
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The dogs included shih-tzus, dachshunds, Lhasa apsos, bearded collies, corgis, chihuahuas, poodles, Pekinese and Yorkshire terriers.
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With her advanced and redesigned brain, she deduced my predicament and called the collies into my superiorly advanced laboratory - lab for short.
Damn Interesting
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We also went through Collie which has a massive opencut mine on the main road into town which was cool to see.
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They forage in bluebell woods by day and roost in trees at night, protected from predators by a pair of collie dogs.
Times, Sunday Times
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One of the shafts at Whinney Hill then became the upcast shaft for both collieries.
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Joe's collie dog got up from her basket under the table and joined him at the door, sniffing the air.
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This steam collier grounded off north Cornwall in 1916 and makes for an interesting dive if you don't mind a little deco, says John Liddiard.
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A black collie ran back towards her, her fur ruffled in the wind, tongue lolling out.
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I worked in the coal mines for three years to obtain my colliery manager's certificate.
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They moved 350 miles to Cornwall where the collie cross vanished and spent all their spare time trying to track her down.
The Sun
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He was a pit deputy at Redbrook colliery on the outskirts of Barnsley, in a different union.
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Various breeds of pedigree dogs, including miniatures shih-tzus and Lhasa apsos, dachshunds, bearded collies and a corgi were recovered.
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Until the 1920s, an aerial ropeway took its output to the coke ovens at the Huncoat Colliery.
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[95] [Old copy, _knew_.] [96] [See Hazlitt's "Proverbs," 1869, p. 478.] [97] [Mr Collier printed _not_.] [98] [Mr Collier printed _only man alive_.] [99] [This and the next line of the dialogue are given in the old copy to Hermione.] [100] [By.] [101] [Old copy, pit_.] [102] _With a wanion_ seems to have been equivalent to "with a witness," or sometimes to "with a curse," but the origin of it is uncertain.
A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6
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We do have 40 acres of land containing overgrown colliery shale, fly tipping and flooded clay pits.
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At a gala event on Saturday he will stoke up the firebox and take it on its first run since it was pensioned off from a South Wales colliery in 1976.
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The American Border Collie Association will record this information, as well as eye certification, on pedigrees.
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In 1946, just prior to nationalisation, only 14 out of Fife's 34 collieries had pithead baths; after nationalisation they all got them.
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He therefore chose a collier for this expedition, and it was converted into a naval vessel.
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The Parodi, a 337 ft long collier, carried war cargoes of coal from Wales to the Mediterranean for the next two years.
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Collier, as has been said, having accepted of a certain Appointment of seven hundred per Annum, Wilks, Dogget, and Myself were not the only acting Menagers under the Queen's License; which being a Grant but during Pleasure oblig'd us to a Conduct that might not undeserve the Favour.
An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Volume II
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She went away in the moonlight, saying good-night and calling her collie, and he walked up the slope to the house, curiously at peace with himself and the dim world hidden in the shadows around.
A Young Man in a Hurry and Other Short Stories
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We surveyed 16 large collieries, each with many pits and a working force of at least 100 miners.
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Educated farmers no longer wanted to work underground because it was too dangerous, but both state mines and private collieries were hiring poor, uneducated workers, often from ethnic minorities, to do the dirty work, just as the West had done for centuries.
When a Billion Chinese Jump
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Lawrence considers these questions through the medium of English rural life, beginning his story in the small Midlands village of Cossethay just as a canal has been built through it to connect the new collieries, bringing the first signs of the "commotion" – the violation, in Lawrence's sexual-topographical vision – of industrialisation to the slumbrous valley.
Rereading: The Rainbow by DH Lawrence
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Another urban fantasy setting with an unusual premis: the world of fantasy and reality collied for a fantasy author.
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They're pretty awful in retrospect, but they got me interested in collies, and before the dust had settled Carol and I bred and exhibited 23 collie champions (naming most of them after science fiction stories and characters).
MIND MELD: Books That Hold Special Places in Our Hearts and On Our Shelves
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AMC prexy Charlie Collier went right to the question on every reporters 'mind at the start of the cabler's Television Critics Assn. panel on Thursday ... var news_amount = 17;
Rachel Sklar: The Mad Men (and Women!) of Morning Joe
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No fan of Marx, Collier writes that the message was "grotesquely" wrong and that "Trade policy is the area of economics least well understood by the NGO world.
Book Review: The Bottom Billion
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Then he collied with John Conner, a hard-hitting rookie fullback who gave him a concussion.
The View From the Outside Looking In
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Back in 1831, Welsh coal miners at the tower colliery invented the red flag as a symbol of rebellion.
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The crack of the stock-whip mingled continually with the barking of the "collies" and the bellowing and bleating of the cattle and sheep.
In Search of the Castaways
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Stars of the stamps include a pig and piglets, a Border Collie puppy and a duck and a drake.
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Founder Cameron Collie told ZDNet Australia the site was designed to help users find the cheapest price of alcohol - or "grog" - in their suburb.
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At the time of the strike there were about 200 collieries, employing more than 200,000 people.
Times, Sunday Times
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It seemed that colliery bands were all but dead.
The Sun
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The early style of ships used to move coal in quantity was the collier brig and the collier barque.
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He had not been able to get a word in edgeways at The Collier's Arms to his great frustration.
GOODBYE CURATE
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Isn't the back room of a colliery as holy a place to pray as a meetinghouse ?
WICKED: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST
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For months he studiously avoided them, calling his collie away with quite unnecessary caution if they happened to pass him on the road, and bolting into his own premises if they met near the gate.
A Popular Schoolgirl
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There will be the collieshangie when they see our marks in the snaw, but they'll founder their horses on the brae and ill-use time tae nae purpose, if just we get ower the common.
The McBrides A Romance of Arran
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If there was one, it would be a dog, probably a pointer or a collie, and it would be trained so well it would probably die on command.
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Jake was our resident dog, a large dominant male, part Border collie and part Labrador retriever, with a little German shepherd thrown in.
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When Tait barked he started for a moment, but then came on steadily – a collie is rarely as formidable as an Irish terrier.
Mates at Billabong
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As he walks again, he sees Collie and a litter of puppies.
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In the case of the Maamba strike, there was no reason for the colliers to resort to such action.
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Miners are threatening an indefinite overtime ban at Kellingley Colliery, near Pontefract, in a dispute over new shift patterns.
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Virginia colliers shipped their coal up and down the eastern seaboard, and enjoyed a first-mover advantage so critical to the success of young industries.
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A short tram ride away is a north-eastern colliery village.
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Theatre Grief imbues intimist theatre from Vancouver's Kim Collier
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With Marquis Grissom struggling and James Mouton nursing a wrist injury, the team is taking a look at utility infielder Lou Collier in center field.
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For example, when collies became popular pets in the Victorian period, they lost many of the characteristics that made them effective herd dogs.
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They forage in bluebell woods by day and roost in trees at night, protected from predators by a pair of collie dogs.
Times, Sunday Times
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They are about the size of a medium collie dog, but their tail is round and bushy and is carried straight out below the level of their back.
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The local press ignored them, probably because there was no colliery in the community and there was therefore no local story of strike-breakers crossing picket lines.
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Pulling around me a sort of great-coat I had made of my blanket, to cover my sulphur-coloured livery, -- 'A friend! 'said I.' What like's all this collieshangie? 'said he.
St. Ives, Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England
