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Definition of Mine run
1. Adjective. Not special in any way. "A unexceptional an incident as can be found in a lawyer's career"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mine Run
Literary usage of Mine run
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Coal Mining in Arkansas by Alvin Arthur Steel (1910)
"Mine-run laws in other states. As an excuse for the mine- run law, ... The mine-run
law requires that the miner be paid for his coal regardless of its ..."
2. The Civil War in Song and Story, 1860-1865 by Frank Moore (1889)
"One of those hiting cold mornings, while the armies of Meade and Loe were staring
at each other across the little rivulet known as mine run, when moments ..."
3. The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography: Being the History of the by James Terry White (1895)
"He also commanded a brigade at mine run, Locust Grove, the Wilderness and in a
number of minor campaigns, including Spottsylvania, and was mustered out of ..."
4. History of the American Civil War by John William Draper (1870)
"A week subsequently Meade prepared a more formidable attack at mine run, but,
the combinations for it failing, it was not made. ..."
5. History of the Civil War in America by Louis-Philippe-Albert d'Orléans Paris, Louis Fitzgerald Tasistro, Henry Coppée, John Page Nicholson (1883)
"If the fords are more practicable below than above mine run, the country, on the
contrary, is much less so. Although cut with numerous glades along ..."
6. Recollections of a Maryland Confederate Soldier and Staff Officer Under by McHenry Howard (1914)
"CHAPTER XXVI BATTLE OF PAYNE'S FARM OR BARTLETT'S MILL AND mine run Early in ...
We went down the run and crossed mine run to the east at Bartlett's Mill, ..."
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