"Lead ore" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... to those served out to the others. The following morning they were set to work. Malchus and his two friends found their tasks by no means labourious, as they were appointed to look after a number of Sards employed in breaking up and sorting the lead ore as it was brought up from the mine. The men, however, returned in the evening worn out with toil. All had been at work in the mines. Some had had to crawl long distances through passages little more than three feet high and one foot ...
— The Young Carthaginian - A Story of The Times of Hannibal • G.A. Henty |
