The boats were at the door, the bales of goods were tied, when the ice began to break in May.
They contain as much tobacco, in bales of raw leaf, as would seem to be a sufficient supply, not for England alone, but for the whole world, for many years to come.
Enormous cranes project from the walls; vastbales of goods dangle perilously in the air, and are lowered into the barges and other vessels which come up close to the landing-stages.
Over a dozen of these small lead clips have been unearthed, and serve as reminders of a past day when majestic English merchantmen sailed to Jamestown laden with bales of goods from the mother country.
These clips are decorated discs which were often attached to bales of goods (especially woolen cloth) imported from England.
At least they always appear in plays and pictures seated at the foot of a high, rocky cliff in some lonely spot, with bales and casks and strange looking bundles about.
It's not lace goods I've brought over the border, nor bales of silk and such things.
There are also at Calasiao, and in some other towns, blacksmiths who forge excellent bolos or wood-knives from the iron-bands taken off bales of cotton cloth or sacking.
The turn out was about 250 bales from daylight to dark.
The bales should measure 10 cubic feet, that is a density of 28 lbs.
The bands from bales of Manchester goods are much esteemed for this purpose.
There are glass blowers, flax dressers, spinners, weavers, and bales of cloth.
Hundreds of bales of stock were rotting there through neglect of the commandant to keep the thatched roofs of the houses in repair.
In this work they may require a little help--a few bales of cloth from home.
We had obtained also two bales of cloth, some clasp-knives, glass beads, and trinkets, with which to pay the Indians for the services we might require of them.
We had axes, and a few other tools for building our canoe; a stock of provisions, which had been carefully husbanded; and somebales of cotton and other articles with which to repay the natives for their services, or to purchase food.
With that he lifted up one of the bales of goods and opened it.
In the midst of the rocky place, bales of goods were piled one on top of the other, just as they are exhibited for sale at fairs and in market-places.
Each acre of well-cultivated land produces from one and a half to two bales of cotton, and even the first year the produce will cover the expenses.
Three incendiary fires took place at Orleans, during the month I remained in that city, by which several thousand bales of cotton were consumed.
It is claimed that the cotton is rolled so tightly by this process that the bales are practically fireproof and waterproof.
The bales are wrapped in jute bagging and strapped with sheet-iron bands, this covering adding about twenty-five pounds to the weight of the bale.
Bales of cotton were sent to England, and the manufacturing of cloth was soon under way.
The balesare covered with cotton cloth, held in place by small wire hoops.
This is ascertained by stripping ten bales and weighing the covering and the hoops, which means considerable work, and although it is at the option of the buyer, it is an exception rather than the rule.
Egyptian bales are compressed into a shape similar to the American bale, but the average weight is over 700 pounds.
There were enormous boxes and crates of strange shapes, bales of rope, stacks of poles, and many things scarcely covered at all, of which I could not imagine the use.
With the aid of some mattresses and the bales of cotton and silk which had been saved sufficiently comfortable bedding was arranged for the invalid gentleman as well as for the other passengers.
He was chiefly anxious to obtain provisions, the bales of rich silks and other manufactures of the east were of little value to men in their situation.
Various sorts of goods were piled up in it--casks of spirits, bales of tobacco, silk, and several other articles.
The wagons came creaking back loaded with bales of the shaggy brown robes, which gave the skin-hunters money with which to join the cowmen at the drinking places.
The buffalo being gone, and their bones being also gone, some farmers fell to trapping and poisoning the great gray wolves, bringing in large bales of the hides.
The ship's scribe asked him, "O master, what bales are these and what merchant's name shall I write upon them?
Here I found a great ship ready for sea and full of merchants and notables, who had with them goods of price; so I embarked mybales therein.
Then they delivered my bales to me, and I found my name written thereon, nor was aught thereof lacking.
Then I sold my bales and what other matters I owned making a great profit on them, and bought me other goods and gear of the growth and fashion of the island- city.
Now when I heard the captain give orders for the bales to be inscribed with my name, I said to myself, "By Allah, I am Sindbad the Seaman!
It is said that the infection was brought over from the Continent in some bales of goods that merchants were bringing to sell in London, but this was never known for certain.
With Packett in a position to cut off retreat, and the precipice of wool-bales in front, Rachel sat down and shook with laughter.
It was a laugh the old man knew well, for he hopped behind a big pile of bales like a boy playing hide-and-seek, and held his breath in expectation.
He wouldn't mind if you fell off a stack ofbales and broke your neck.
Next time my child wants something, she won't climb on the wool-bales and nearly kill herself?
When you rent that-a-way you git three bales and de boss git one.
He used to raise 12 bales cotton a year and then drink it all up.
We made two bales of cotton and it was the first money we ever saw.
Marse had six hundred balescotton in the Shreveport warehouse when war was over.
Especially is this the case with articles of textile manufacture, bales of cloth, dress fabrics and so forth, when all the large emporiums and shops have had their shelves loaded and could digest no more.
Above the boxes are bales of Bokharian and Persian carpets, often of great beauty and value.
He said he had to pick over thousands of bales before he could secure a sufficient number of the proper length, color, and fineness.
Thousands of hogsheads, cases, and bales are annually shipped to all parts of the world and the demand for American tobacco is greater than for the varieties grown in the Old World.
When wanted, the bales are opened, the manojas and gabillos are separated, and the latter carried in their dry state to the moistening room.
I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah, with one hundred and fifty heavy guns and plenty of ammunition; also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton.
The poor wretches are stowed by hundreds, like bales of goods, between the low decks, where filth and putrid air produce disease, madness and suicide.
In the same way, numerous bales and other articles which had formed the cargo of the ship were saved.
The "Duddery" was separated from the rest of the fair, and contained larger and more substantial buildings for the display of its valuable bales and its vast pockets of wool, one of which was sufficient to load a waggon.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bales" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
