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- Later, the Captain stopped all the hand digging and brought in giant machines, called continuous miners, to tear the coal from its seams.†
Chpt 1 *
- My mother said that after the accident, Poppy was in continuous pain.†
Chpt 1
- Finally, a doctor prescribed paregoric, and as long as he had a continuous supply, Poppy found some peace.†
Chpt 1
- According to Mom, there was some kind of problem with one of the continuous miners.†
Chpt 2
- This is what the great Captain did for us with his continuous miners.†
Chpt 4
- The continuous miners grind the coal up, fill the air with dust.†
Chpt 4
- He was working on the big steel-cutting maw of a continuous mining machine.†
Chpt 7
- I worked explosives before the company brought in the continuous-mining machines.†
Chpt 9
- After that, the blocks were taken out by continuous-mining machines, one by one, until each of them was only about fifteen feet square.†
Chpt 11
- "That's a continuous-mining machine!" he yelled over its roar.†
Chpt 11
- Dad positioned me out of the way when a shuttle car darted in, its crablike arms sweeping up the coal thrown out behind the continuous miner.†
Chpt 11
- Dad and Uncle Robert started discussing business and I wandered away, trying to get a better angle on watching the continuous miner and the shuttle go through their choreographed dance of mining coal.†
Chpt 11
- I see it all in my head days before, see the cut the continuous miners will take, the route of the loaders, the roof bolts going in, the places where the methane might build up and where the foreman needs to check with his safety lamp.†
Chpt 11
Definitions:
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(1)
(continuous) continuing in time or space without interruption or irregularity
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)