They grumbled, but their resolution hardened as the strain got worse, while Bell waited rather anxiously for them to give way.
His yards were full and more coal was coming in, but he saw that if he let the farmers beat him his power to overcharge them another time would be gone.

The new combine was dangerous, since the cooperative plan might be extended to the purchase of chemical manures, seed, and lime.

In the meantime, there was plenty of peat, stacked so that it would escape much damage, on Malton Head; but Askew and his friends could not get it down.
Carts could not be used on the fells and the clumsy wooden sledges the farmers called stone-boats would not run across the boggy moor.

The few loads Kit brought down at the cost of heavy labor were carried off by anxious house-wives as soon as they arrived.
The weather was helping the monopolist, but he could not tell if a change to frost would be an advantage or not.

Although it would make the need for coal felt keenly, it might simplify the transport of peat.