mainmaster

Updated: June 10, 2025

He was the oracle of his circle, and there was silence whenever he was inclined to address them, which was not too often, though when he spoke, his words, as his followers often observed, were a regular ten-yard coal. "I take it you be a stranger in these parts, sir, or else you would know that it's as easy for a miner to speak to a mainmaster, as it is for me to pick coal with this here clay.

Earl of Beaconsfield Benjamin Disraeli - Sybil, or the Two Nations