Ralph had raised the lantern to the level of the mare's creels to remove the strap that bound them, and the light had fallen on his face.
The whole household seemed gathered there, and in the middle of the yard stood the mare Betsy, saddled but riderless, her empty wool-creels strapped to her sides.
When extra large diameter roving bobbins are used and the creels are required to take double roving, the 39-in.
I see the boys going to market driving donkeys with creels of turf, and the girls carrying baskets of apples.
When, for example, I used to fish at Rickmansworth in the middle 'sixties, you would see anglers walking away with their rods and creels from Watford station to various waters four or five miles distant.
Altogether it is a very fly-fishing state, and heavy creels can be made from the streams falling into Lake Superior.
Last of all, the creels were ranged round the hay-mows, and the floor was cleared of everything except a beer-barrel.
Clippers were seated on creels ranged about a turf fire, over which a pot of tar hung from a triangle of boughs.
Our creels were full enough to carry with comfort and we started for camp, discussing the causes of the failure of the day before, but arriving at no satisfactory solution.
The creels were getting heavy, and the Doctor decided to take a short cut for the lake shore.
Creels are made by the people of willow and birch twigs.
It is they who carry home heavy creels of peats for the household fire,--peats in the treatment of which they had taken an active share the previous summer; they herd the cow, and manage the house.
Dame Lanreath and Nelly, as well as several other female members of Reuben's family, or related to his crew, were ready to set off with their creels as soon as the boat returned.
As they had now to go from house to house to sell their fish, he had to leave them, believing, however, that he should have no difficulty in finding them again when their creels were empty.
The vessel was soon moored alongside the quay, when the creels were quickly filled with fish.
On the beach were collected numbers of women and lads, with creels on their backs ready to be filled.
No, granny and Nelly started off to Helston with their creels full, as they can get a much better price than Mawgan will give," answered Michael.
Men are putting out manure, carrying it in creels on their backs.
It was a market morning and there were many asses, creels and carts with fish drawn up in the market place.
Asses are the prevailing beasts of burden, carrying about turf in creels or drawing hay--a big load to a small ass.
It is a most displeasing road for most of the way; sides with deep corrugations, and in the middle a high causeway of earth, whose height is being added to by hundreds of creels of earth brought on ponies' backs.
Already, however, these industrious peasants are driving piles, carrying soil for embankments in creels on horses' backs, and making ropes of stones to prevent a recurrence of the calamity.
We met strings of pack-mares, tied head and tail, loaded with rice and sake, and men and women carrying large creelsfull of mulberry leaves.
How shall they pass The Turf-Cadger's Ass, Creels and all, creels and all?
Cadgers carried creels of goods on horseback; and sledges, or creels borne on the backs of women, were the means of transportation in northern Scotland until the end of the eighteenth century.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "creels" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
