They moved right on like soldiers in their ranks, stopping at nothing, and straggling for nothing: they carried a broad furrow or wheal all across the country, black and loathsome, while it was as green and smiling on each side of them and in front, as it had been before they came.
"Callista"
John Henry Cardinal Newman
At wheal Friendship mine in Cornwall, a different contrivance is employed: there is in that mine an inclined plane, passing underground about two-thirds of a mile in length.
"On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures"
Charles Babbage
I belong to wheal Gooniver, up the valley.
"The Ship of Stars"
Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch