Which preposition to use with bale
Well, some needs a bale of cotton to fall on 'em afore they learns anything.
"In the large skin-bale in my house, the one slung by the ridge-pole," came the answer.
You contracted with us, Captain Shelton, to convey those bales to England.
Enclosed maize fields overgrown with brambles, and cotton fields with the gins and apparatus for packing the produce in bales for the market, presented to the eye the very picture of desolation.
At once he raised a formidable barricade of mud and timber, and strengthened it with cotton-bales from the neighboring plantations.
He fell over the bale on which he had been lying.
With one hand resting on a rail, and a bag in the other, she watched the men as they drove the cattle up the gangways or lowered huge casks and bales into the hold.
"We are under contract to deliver ten thousand bales at Wilmington to our agent," Vincent replied.
But fortunately he sleeps motionless, like one physically tired out, perchance after dragging bales about the dock sheds since early morn or wandering all day round the city with heavy loads upon his head.
"That can't be," answered the Doctor; "Charley Twyne knows everything about it, and has a letter every second day; and there's no chance of Sir Bale before the tenth; this is a tourist, you'll find.
Around Jim Pink lounged and sprawled black men and youths, stretching on the cotton-bales like cats in the sunshine.
This double line advanced till bale touched bale as before.
The image of the nursery-tale had now recurred to Sir Bale after so long a reach of years; and the only imaginable way, in his mind, of accounting for penniless Philip Feltram having all that gold in his possession was that, in some of his lonely wanderings, chance had led him to the undiscovered hoard of the two Feltrams who had died in the great civil wars.
After I had made the payment to her factor, I received a note from the lady in reference to the three bales above mentioned.
The bunniahs hurry up their tottering, overladen ponies; the rice merchant twists his patient bullock's tail to make it move faster; the cloth merchant with his bale under his arm and measuring stick in hand, walks briskly along.
For I would rather share eternal bale with you, Frances, than immortal bliss with another.