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How to use corves in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word corves? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
All workings here are contrived so that the full corves are put down an inclination and the empty ones up.
The hurriers were not employed by the mine owners but worked directly for a collier who was paid according to the number of corves sent to bank.
I wear a belt and chain at the workings to get the corves out.
This was further compounded by the fact that Victorian children moved up to twenty corves per day, whilst being sick, malnourished and demoralised in many cases.
No cage was used, rope and chain wound the corves up the shaft and the men and boys rode the rope by inserting a wooden step into the rope and hanging on.
Instead horses guided by coal drivers were used to pull the corves.
Two hundred years ago coal was carried in baskets known as corves.
Examples from Classical Literature
Next to the corves, the monster grievance of the third estate was the system of enrolments for the militia.
What the collection of the taxes had begun was almost always brought to a climax by the corves.
In George Stephenson's day the coals were drawn out of the pit in corves, or large baskets made of hazel rods.
Other men were engaged at the foot of the shaft, hooking on the corves full of coal to be drawn up by the machinery above.
Each day the corves had brought the same news from the kitchen.
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