Sentence examples for digging a mine from inspiring English sources

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It invites the reader to think of a massive stone wall, and the besiegers digging a "mine" under it.

Some of the corporation's enemies clearly hold the view that if one undermines the foundations, the edifice might be more swiftly destroyed: like digging a mine in a medieval siege".

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"Enough Ivy League lawyers — let's get people who can dig a mine and run a business".

The sadness had many aspects: the squandered effort to dig a mine, packed with gunpowder, under enemy lines; drunken, incompetent Union officers; rookie black units thrown into battle, to be slaughtered by Confederates determined to take no black prisoners.

Anyone who wants to try "quantitative easing" in the gold market has to dig a mine.In this section The muscles from Brussels CoCo nuts Flat out Exit, followed by a bear The bust that worked Leaders and laggards Faring well Adornment and investment Pay for delay Award: Philip Coggan Correction: Wouter Bos Reprints Related items Gold prices: Bullion bullsOct 8th 2009.

He was going to dig a mine right on that spot.

In July, Union troops dug a mine beneath the Confederate position and, on July 30 , 1864 a massive amount of gunpowder was detonated in the mine, blasting a hole in the Confederate position.

According to one contemporary source, the besiegers were about to dig a mine beneath the tower, but the siege was abandoned on 26 April when the earls received news of a relief force led by Henry III and his son, Prince Edward.

As the two armies faced the stalemate of trench warfare at Petersburg in July 1864, Burnside agreed to a plan suggested by a regiment of former coal miners in his corps, the 48th Pennsylvania: dig a mine under a fort named Elliot's Salient in the Confederate entrenchments and ignite explosives there to achieve a surprise breakthrough.

Sixty years later, Mr. Jacques is tasked with finishing the job by digging a new mine 900 feet down.

As a child, he spent one summer digging a "coal mine" with his friends, using an old piece of gutter for the chute, a neighbor, Lena Stover, recalled.

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