He manages to squeeze "lodes," "gossans," "costeanings," and other impressive words into almost every sentence.
"George Du Maurier, the Satirist of the Victorians"
T. Martin Wood
He had bought land in his own right on a rising tide of values, and he had seen his own veins of coal narrow to nothing, until his engineers had "pulled the pillars" and abandoned the lodes.
"The Tempering"
Charles Neville Buck
Some were running day and night crushing quartz that was apparently rich in gold; some were running a part of the time, experimenting on a variety of quartz taken out of different lodes and prospect holes, and generally not paying, and some were idle, the owners discouraged, "bust," and trying to sell, or else gone home for the winter to get more money to work with.
"A Gold Hunter's Experience"
Chalkley J. Hambleton