Do we say bail or bale

bail 363 occurrences

They're thracin' themselves to some DURPHY, O'NEILL, or McCANN, or O'TAAFFE, I'll go bail the bowld conqueror MURPHY 'S too owld to be caught wid sich chaff.

The leader of the recent expedition was arrested at New Orleans, but was discharged on giving bail for his appearance in the insufficient sum of $2,000.

"Ladley is safe, until he gets bail, anyhow," he said.

Beyond making an attempt to get bail, and failing, he had done nothing.

The prisoner is remanded for a week, bail having been accepted in two sureties of five hundred pounds each.

The presiding magistrate, emotionless and dry, dipped his pen while Reuben, who had surrendered to his bail, was placed in the dock and the charge read over to him.

" The magistrate then, in the same placid, business-like manner, committed the prisoner for trial at the Central Criminal Court, refusing to accept bail for his appearance, and, as Reuben was led forth from the dock, the next case was called.

"The magistrate refused bail," I said after an uncomfortable pause.

I was therefore obliged to get bail for my appearance at court, after which I pursued my journey.

He of course gave bail for his appearance at court, and it ran along for some time until he found he could not bribe me to enter into his interests, and then for the first time, he declared that I had stolen the note!

The deputy steward or town clerk holds a court of record every three weeks, for the trial of civil actions, and holds to bail for forty shillings and upwards.

He had obtained bail and was at large.

The hoop at the upper edge was also sewed to the paunch, and a rawhide bail passed under it, to carry it by.

If set on the ground when full, they would stand up for a while, but as they soon softened and fell down, they were usually hung up by the bail on a little tripod.

Cups were made in the same way as buckets, but on a smaller scale and without the bail.

The farmer, having put in bail t' appear, And forced to town, cries they are happiest there: With thousands more of this inconstant race, Would tire e'en

I have reason to believe that he seldom parts with his dear friend without lending him two guineas, and am afraid that he gave bail for him three days ago.

But my favourite fiddler contrived to be arrested, on the night of a concert, for a finer suit of clothes than I had ever presumed to wear, and I lost all the fame of patronage by refusing to bail him.

Nay, now y'are gone without bail.

I am not to be alter'd; to sit down with this disgrace, would argue me a Peasant, and not born Noble: all rigour that the Law, and that increase of power by favour yields, shall be with all severity inflicted; you have the King's hand for't, no Bail will serve, and therefore at your perils, Officers, away with 'em.

Mr. Plausaby came up and offered to become his bail, but this Charlton vehemently refused, and was locked up in jail, where for the next two or three months he amused himself by reading the daily papers and such books as he could borrow, and writing on various subjects manuscripts which he never published.

Meantime you could get bail.

Conway, too, maintains his innocence, and as Waller is the only evidence against either him or Portland, both are, after a long imprisonment, admitted to bail.

"Bail her out, boys!

Then came Gustav's warder who had gone bail for him in sixteen hundred gulden, and pleaded for his prisoner.

bale 644 occurrences

From the north we had carried here five hundred bales of fur, valued at fifty dollars to the bale.

"I have told you, Mr. Bale, all I have to say on that subject.

" "But for his message, or some equally decided step, Mr. Bale, you would never have it.

" Here Mr. Bale shook his head, laughed, and disappeared in the crowd, perfectly satisfied that John Effingham was a prejudiced man, and that he, himself, was only liberal and just.

From THE CASTLE OF INDOLENCE O mortal man, who livest here by toil, Do not complain of this thy hard estate: That like an emmet thou must ever moil Is a sad sentence of an ancient date; And, certes, there is for it reason great, For though sometimes it makes thee weep and wail And curse thy star, and early drudge and late, Withouten that would come an heavier bale Loose life, unruly passions, and diseases pale.

Here, come inside where I can set this bloomin' junk down on a bale of hay for a minute an' I'll fix you up!" The Ramblin' Kid followed Gyp into the stall.

The latter took it and sat down on a bale of hay lying opposite.

As the door slammed shut the Ramblin' Kid pitched forward, unconscious, on the bale of hay.

He fell over the bale on which he had been lying.

There had been a thunder-storm that afternoon, and Tom had gone down the beach to bale out the boat in readiness for the morning's fishing.

" The old man sprung to his feet with such impatience that the leather bale rolled away from him, and he nearly lost his balance.

Pitts and Bale have entirely neglected him, yet for his translation of David's Psalms into English metre and other poetical works, Leland scruples not to compare him with Dante and Petrarch, by giving him this ample commendation.

Let now your blisse be turned into bale, 320 And into plaints convert your ioyous playes, And with the same fill every hill and dale.

whom at the first I bred Of th'inward bale of my love-pined hart, And sithens have with sighes and sorrowes fed, Till greater then my wombe thou woxen art, Breake forth at length out of the inner part, In which thou lurkest lyke to vipers brood, And seeke some succour both to ease my smart, And also to sustayne thy selfe with food.

In the agony of a doubt upon which seemed to hang the bliss or bale of his being, yet not altogether unintimidated by a sense of his intrusion, he walks into the house of Polonius, and into the chamber of Ophelia.

He took this work with tremendous seriousness, much like an elephant hunting for peanuts hidden in a bale of hay.

You stay right along here a day or sotell to-morrer or nex' day, anyhowan' I'll sen' you a whole bale o' cottonan' you can sen' back any change you see fitor noneor none, I say.

The English spinner, too, can not only reduce his time one-fourth without stopping, but can reduce his consumption another fourth by raising his numbers and increasing the fineness of his cloth; and as he draws one-fourth of his supply from other countries, it is obvious that he might hold out for nearly two years without a bale from America.

Among these spots none is more promising than Central America, where the cotton-plant is perennial, and a single acre, as we are assured by Mr. Squier, yields semiannually a bale of superior cotton.

While the latter, under the ordinary course of cultivation in South Carolina, yields but one bale to four acres, and in virgin soil rarely more than one bale to two acres, flax yields in good soil from five to eight hundred pounds of fibre to the acre, which may be converted into flax-cotton by modern machinery; and as the product has but three per cent.

While the latter, under the ordinary course of cultivation in South Carolina, yields but one bale to four acres, and in virgin soil rarely more than one bale to two acres, flax yields in good soil from five to eight hundred pounds of fibre to the acre, which may be converted into flax-cotton by modern machinery; and as the product has but three per cent.

The cotton bale and the bank note have formed an alliance; the credit system with slave labor.

The fair artist, having with shrieks invoked the aid of a neighbour, he promptly descended from his roof or other temporary camp, and helped her with basins and chatties to bale out the half-swamped boat.

By the dim light of two port-holes she could see that the floor was strewn and piled with the contents of a broken bale of curled horse-hair, of which a few untouched bales still remained against the wall.

A cheap earthenware ewer and basin on the floor, and a pallet made of an open bale of horse-hair, on which a ragged quilt and blanket were flung, indicated that the solitary worker dwelt and slept beside his work.

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