Work was about to be resumed, and on the iron pavement there was a continual thunder, trains of coal being wheeled without ceasing, while the landers, with their long, bent backs, could be distinguished amid the movement of all these black and noisy things, in perpetual agitation.
L'extraction venait d'etre reprise; et, sur les dalles de fonte, c'était un tonnerre continu, les berlines de charbon roulées sans cesse, les courses des moulineurs, dont on distinguait les longues échines penchées, dans le remuement de toutes ces choses noires et bruyantes qui s'agitaient.