Bundles

Examples

• With perfect coolness Holmes slipped across to the safe, filled his two arms with bundles of letters, and poured them all into the fire. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• I will ask you to carry in two bundles of it. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• He experimented with bundles of iron wires variously insulated, also with sheet-iron rolled cylindrically and covered with iron wire wound concentrically. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The gentleman in the bag wig laid bundles of papers on his lordship's table, and his lordship silently selected one and turned over the leaves. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Switches were brought in bundles, from a beech wood near the school house, by the boys for whose benefit they were intended. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Other mechanisms cut and divided the block into strips, which were then dipped at one end, dried and tied in bundles. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Placing Helena, Zoe, and all their bundles in the best boat they could select in their hurry, Dick and Argyropoulos pushed it off into deep water. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Then distorting his pockets with knobby bundles, and giving her the flowers to hold, he put up the old umbrella, and they traveled on again. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Where are our bundles? Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Thus we came to Richard, poring over a table covered with dusty bundles of papers which seemed to me like dusty mirrors reflecting his own mind. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Put them on the table, and bring her in and see her open the bundles. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• I liked the place where the bundles fell off and tumbled downstairs, said Meg. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Some were distant, and stood in a dense atmosphere, so that bundles of pale straw-like beams radiated around them in the shape of a fan. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Mr. Shelby was busy in counting some bundles of bills, which, as they were counted, he pushed over to the trader, who counted them likewise. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• We have not so much dust as that in London,' replied Fagin, pointing from Noah's shoes to those of his companion, and from them to the two bundles. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Spaulding took out patent No. 103,673 for a binder which automatically regulated the bundles to a uniform size. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• A Great Log, how Turned into Bundles of Shingles. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The battery-room was filled with old record-books and message bundles, and one hundred cells of nitric-acid battery, arranged on a stand in the centre of the room. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• They were dropped into the stream, the current turned on, and five or six kegs of nails or bundles of wire were raised each trip. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• No matter who's got it, or who did it, my dear,' replied Fagin, glancing, nevertheless, with a hawk's eye at the girl and the two bundles. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• I could see that it was already a third full of bundles of paper tied up with red tape into separate packages. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• We were all going to follow, and were all in course of being tied up separately (by Trabb) into ridiculous bundles. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• The splints are collected into bundles of one thousand, and each end having been dipped into melted sulphur, they are divided in the middle by a circular saw. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• He was watching Pilar, her head bare, her shoulders broad, her knees higher than her thighs as her heels hooked into the bundles. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• With the cradle the cut swath could be laid down neatly for drying preparatory to being bound into bundles. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Letters, manuscripts, books, and bundles can be passed in there, and as each nation has a key, it will be uncommonly nice, I fancy. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• The machines cut the grain, and tie it up in bundles, which are dropped alongside. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Charlotte, see to them bundles. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Well, we can't have it, so don't let us grumble but shoulder our bundles and trudge along as cheerfully as Marmee does. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• These string bundles were called _quipus_, but though quipus are still to be found in collections, the art of reading them is altogether lost. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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