coalmen

In 1821 in an unprecedented sweep Austrian police in Lombardy, Italy arrested about 600000 young men and women as the alleged members of the Carbonari (coalmen) underground insurgent organization.

Was It Worth It? 2009

They styled those who had been burnt to death, coalmen; the hanged, the murdered, the drowned, the bodies that had been stabbed or crushed, excited their jeering vivacity, and their voices, which slightly trembled, stammered out comical sentences amid the shuddering silence of the hall.

Morgues in Parisian Popular Culture (1867) JE 2007

They styled those who had been burnt to death, coalmen; the hanged, the murdered, the drowned, the bodies that had been stabbed or crushed, excited their jeering vivacity, and their voices, which slightly trembled, stammered out comical sentences amid the shuddering silence of the hall.

Archive 2007-08-01 JE 2007

Dinner was over and Miss Morden sat on a pile of coiled rope, watching the coalmen.

The Durket Sperret, 1898

Then on they went again, past more cottages and sundry turnings, until at last they reached a curious old rough-and-tumble wharf on one side of the road, where the coal which had been brought by train was piled up in great stacks for the coalmen to take round presently in their carts.

Kitty Trenire Mabel Quiller-Couch 1895

They styled those who had been burnt to death, coalmen; the hanged, the murdered, the drowned, the bodies that had been stabbed or crushed, excited their jeering vivacity, and their voices, which slightly trembled, stammered out comical sentences amid the shuddering silence of the hall.

Theresa Raquin ��mile Zola 1871

Comrade of raftsmen and coalmen -- comrade of all who

Leaves of Grass [1867] 1867

Comrade of raftsmen and coalmen, comrade of all who shake hands and welcome to drink and meat,

Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman 1855

At dawn you are awakened by the shrill and desponding cry of the Carbonero, the coalmen, "Carbon, Señor?" which, as he pronounces it, sounds like "Carbosiu?"

Life in Mexico, During a Residence of Two Years in That Country Frances Erskine Inglis 1843

Mind you I am one of the few to have my own tunic rather than just a coalman’s fleace. (no disrspect to coalmen – do they still exist?) on November 9, 2009 at 11: 34 pm Teofilio Cubillas

Sunday Post, Ruralshire, England. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009