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Definition of Mineshafts
1. mineshaft [n] - See also: mineshaft
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mineshafts
Literary usage of Mineshafts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Creative City by Charles Landry, Franco Bianchini (1995)
"... it contains within a ten mile radius a large number of smaller attractions —
potteries, mineshafts and other old industrial buildings. ..."
2. Aerial Interdiction: Air Power and the Land Battle in Three American Wars by Mark (1995)
"even the most promising targets to a single minute, found to his amazement that
Normandy was honeycombed with abandoned mineshafts in which fuel and ..."
3. State of the Nation: South Africa 2007 by Sakhela Buhlungu (2007)
"... who had made public pronouncements about the desirability of putting prisoners
down mineshafts, and who left under a cloud of alleged corruption. ..."
4. Ireland by Peter Singer (2004)
"A word of caution: Stick to the road and don't venture into the fenced-off areas
of the old mineshafts, where the ground is liable to subsidence. ..."
5. Human Rights Watch World Report 1998 by Human Rights Watch Staff (1997)
"In March, the commissioner for correctional services stated that the use of
disused mineshafts was being considered for some prisoners, whom he described as ..."
6. Sardinia by Jack Altman (2002)
"But whereas the interior is now dotted with ghost towns and disused mineshafts,
the coastal region offers a growing number of attractive resorts with tine ..."
7. Poems of Friedrich Holderlin: The Fire of the Gods Drives Us to Set Forth by by Friedrich Hölderlin (2004)
"For the work Of the gods resembles our own: The Highest doesn't want it Accomplished
all at once. As mineshafts yield iron ..."
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