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

The season of first picking was always a great time, for the planter who brought the first bale of cotton into market at Memphis was presented with a basket of champagne by the commission merchants.

Been many a day since I sold a bale a cotton myself.

"Almost as pasty as when you challenged me to produce those damned bales of fur.

I'm farmin' on the shares and I think if I raise four bales I ought to have two bales to sell and boss man two bales, but it ain't that way.

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.

She was still looking at them when the door opened and a servant ushered in a small swarthy man who, in spite of his conspicuously London-made clothes, had an odd exotic air, as if he had worn rings in his ears or left a bale of spices at the door.

Instead of ginning two or three bales of cotton a day, as at Pontotoc, they ginned six to seven bales here.

When the word was given the brief day was almost spent, and it was slow work and tedious, rolling the big bales forward foot by foot

"We are under contract to deliver ten thousand bales at Wilmington to our agent," Vincent replied.

His father got two bales and Hance and me got two.

Why should I not myself buy a few bales of cloth or silk?

There porters were transporting bales of merchandise or sacks of grain from a warehouse to a pier, or from one landing to another.

1,344,417 7,528,733 1916-17. 1,493,976 8,366,266 1917-18. 1,607,922 9,004,364 1918-19. 1,278,425 7,159,180 1919-20. 1,542,178 8,636,200 A large vessel containing bales of jute is berthed on the quay-side adjoining the jute sheds in Fig.

Do you not read of cart-loads of patriotic gifts,* bales of lint and bandages, and stockings, knit by the hands of fair citizens, for the use of the soldiers?

As for those others, they ransacked throughout the castle of Sir Turquine, and they found twelve treasure-chests full of treasure, both of silver and of gold, together with many precious jewels; and they found many bales of cloth of silk and of cloth of gold.

The city not only controlled the commerce of the Mississippi, but in it were stored one hundred and fifty thousand bales of cotton, and eight hundred and ten thousand hogsheads of sugar, all of which the English government expected to seize.

"When the Yankees come through they sot the house afire and the gin and burned up 'bout a hundred bales a cotton.

And again, "We have been allowed to plunder; we didn't require to be told twice: whole bales of loot.

"Rip up thim bales, Jack!" said Murphy.

Some were talking and laughing; others were in a line, bearing bales of furs from bateaux just arrived at the log-and-stone wharf stretched from the centre of the bay.

He wants to send her "perfect bales of letters," he prefers to write her at the piano, especially in the chords of the ninth and the thirteenth.

Whereupon he pointed the bales out to me, and sent for the person whose duty it was to keep a list of the goods that were upon the ship.

You contracted with us, Captain Shelton, to convey those bales to England.

per square inch, with two hydraulic presses having 13 inch rams of 41 feet stroke, and force pumps 2 inches diameter and 6 inches stroke, presses 30 bales of cotton per hour.