What a pity there is a coal-pit here where it is so pretty!

Right inside reorganised coal-pit it’s very hot (8)

There was little commerce, only some grocery stores and a coal-pit; the light came until the residents' association where it was distributed to the whole community.

In 1861, his bravery was noted when he attempted to rescue the men and boys trapped in a coal-pit at Clay Cross during an inundation.

The Earth Weighed in the Harton Coal-pit"."

If one or more malevolent beings were concealed in the coal-pit, and there concocted mischief, Nell surely could have warned them of it, yet she said nothing.

One year after taking over the India Mill Company Shorrock had expanded the firms operations to papermaking, a coal-pit, and a sawmill.

Harry McKendry, in early 1950 proposed a scheme to implement coal-mining mechanisation into the workings of this old coal-pit, Aberdare Shaft Colliery.

It was very quiet still, even the children were a little inactive, but there were a lot of people standing dispersedly in little groups, and with a general direction towards the gates of the Bantock Burden coal-pit.

There are two poor brothers from near Chorley, who work from morning to night in a coal-pit, and who, in all weathers, have walked eight miles a-night, three nights a-week, to attend the classes in which they have gained distinction.

But the legislature, instead of a bounty, has imposed a tax of three shillings and threepence a ton upon coal carried coastways, which upon most sorts of coal is more than sixty per cent of the original price at the coal-pit.

In the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society in 1733, some properties of coal-gas are detailed in a paper called, "An Account of the Damp Air in a Coal-pit of Sir James Lowther, sunk within Twenty Yards of the Sea."