Bales
[beɪlz]
Examples
- In 1793 the total export of cotton from the United States was less than ten thousand bales, but by 1860 the export was four million bales. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- High on the upper deck, in a little nook among the everywhere predominant cotton-bales, at last we may find him. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- The woman walked forward among the boxes and bales of the lower deck, and, sitting down, busied herself with chirruping to her baby. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- The only valuable part of them consisted in some little fillets, bracelets, and other ornaments of gold, and in some bales of cotton. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The trader searched the boat from stem to stern, among boxes, bales and barrels, around the machinery, by the chimneys, in vain. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- There was an immense amount of cotton, in bales, stacked outside. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- When it is remembered that cotton is raised in about twenty different countries, and that the cotton crop of the United States of 1897-98 was 10,897,857 bales, of about 500 lbs. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
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