18 Metaphors for cotton

in its manufacture, the flax-cotton which is produced from a single acre is the equivalent of one to two bales of cotton.

BURY (56), a manufacturing town in Lancashire, 10 m. NW. of Manchester; originally but a small place engaged in woollen manufacture, but cotton is now the staple manufacture in addition to paper-works, dye-works, &c.

Besides this translation, Mr. Cotton is author of many other works, such as his poem called the Wonders of the Peak, printed in 8vo.

As cotton was almost the only source of revenue for the farmers, and as there was now no opportunity of getting it to market, there was such a dearth of money as had seldom, if ever, been known, and a corresponding dearth of those necessaries of life which money was the only means of procuring.

Cotton never could have become an article of much commercial importance under the old method of preparing it for market.

Cotton was the chief product of the Mississippi farms and nothing else was raised to sell.

Cotton and linen are good conductors of heat, but are not absorbents of moisture, and should not be worn next the skin.

She said the cotton in question was entirely her property; but, in consideration of our careful attention to the matter, she would consent to our retaining half its value.

Ham, for example, cost 40¢ and 50¢ a pound; lard was 25¢; cotton was two dollars a bushel.

But the ensuing winter happened to be so mild that, although the cotton is not commonly a perennial outside the tropics, new shoots grew from the old roots in the following spring and yielded their crop in the fall.

Cotton was four and five cents a pound, flour three dollars a barrel, and meat four and five cents a pound.

Cotton, corn, and tobacco are the great staples, and considerable quantities of wheat are produced.

As cotton was an acknowledged "king," the planters calculated on the support of England, which could not do without their bales.

Cotton was quite a stranger among us, having been in our place but six weeks.

The Indian plant does not, indeed, attain the height and thickness of the Egyptian; however, it is considered that the quality of the cotton does not depend upon the size of the plants, and that the cotton of this country is the finest and the best.

Cotton is cotton in Augusta and everywhere else that I ever heard of,' 'I know that as well as you,' says the first, 'but what does cotton bring in Augusta?'

"Besides that, I know Laussat has gone to Martinique; that the Américains have a newspaper, and that cotton is two-bits a pound.

In the latter, cotton is the chief object of attention.

18 Metaphors for  cotton