Some of his company put their Chests and bails on board a New York Sloop lying at Gardiner's Island.
Some of his Sloop's company put two bails of Goods on store at Gardiner's Island, being their own property.
Last season, when he was captain, he failed to disturb the bails to the tune of 51 runs, which proves his modesty.
Batting with a trace of the style which made him a capital racquet-player, he could lay about him with perilous rapidity, whilst his fine bowling claimed five for 14 when Oxford was dismissed for 42, and his ball removed the bails each time.
Nowadays, if a ball is straight and the batsman misses it, it is a simple matter of cause and effect that the bails are sent flying and he is out.
He stands up in a stooping posture, with his hands close enough to the bails to allow him to remove them in almost the same action as receiving the ball.
Cambridge, removed the bails thirty times, in all capturing forty-three opponents.
Fingers got such nasty knocks encountering the bat in a race for this hole that bails and a popping crease were substituted—at least the humane consideration is stated to have been a factor in the change.
To tell the truth, I feared it would be wide, and could hardly believe my eyes when I saw the bails off.
This feeling induced hesitation when the next ball was delivered, and the result of hesitation was that the insidious missile curled in somehow over his bat and toppled his bails off.
She had taken the case in hand now and would return the two out-on-bails to court if she had to carry them.
Mrs. Sturgis' first act after Irene's return home with her out-on-bails the evening before had been to send for the judge.
He went in first wicket, two minutes after the commencement of the innings, Gresley having knocked off his bails in a misguided attempt to pull the first ball he received.
The wicket-keeper whipped off the bails in a flash, and the innings was over.
The bails were whipped off, and the Scrabbler, who had dragged his foot right over the crease in his tremendous lunge forward, was out, stumped as neatly as possible.
The Stumps must be 3 in number, 27 inches out of the ground; the bails 8 inches in length; the stumps of equal and of sufficient thickness to prevent the ball from passing through.
Balls, too, that come about five inches above the bails should generally be allowed to pass, for unless you are well skilled in the art of hitting down, you are sure to give a catch.
The Striker is Out if either of the bails be struck off, or if a stump be bowled out of the ground; 16.
But if both thebails be off, a stump must be struck out of the ground; 22.
But the next ball is too much for the young hand, and his bails fly different ways.
Marylebone man walks away from the wicket, and old Bailey gravely sets up the middle stump again and puts the bails on.
But the next ball is too much for a young hand, and his bails fly different ways.
The next moment the wicket-keeper had the bails off.
But each time luck was with him, and his bat was across the crease before the bails were off.
The wicket shall be held to be “down” when either of the bails is struck off, or, if both bails be off, when a stump is struck out of the ground.
Three stumps twenty-seven inches high, so erected that they shall be eight inches from outside to outside, with bails laid in grooves upon the top.
To help this reasoning process let us demonstrate by stating that the batsman’s wicket without the bails presents to the bowler a surface of 216 square inches.
Wire bails can be and should be a little tighter when jars are put in a steam pressure canner.
The bails on new jars are sometimes too tight, in which case remove the bail and spread it out.
This testing of the bails should be done every year.
If the bailsshould happen to be off, a stump must be struck out of the ground.
Is OUT, if either of the bails be struck off by the ball, or either of the stumps struck out of the ground.
She turned the cows into the paddock beside the bails and took the pail of warm, sweet-smelling milk indoors.
The cows had gathered up to the fence near the bails for the milking.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bails" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
