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Twenty thousand bales of ginned cotton went yearly to England, New and Old; and men that came there bankrupt made money and grew rich.

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 Meanings and Examples of BALE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
bale
 n.  a bundle or package of goods in a cloth cover, and corded for storage or transportation
Classic Sentence: (32 in 3 pages)
1  For some reason the rascals have histed the taxes on Tara till you'd think it was a thousand- bale place.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
2  The rising sea forbade all attempts to bale out the boat.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 48. The First Lowering.
3  A graceful, elegantly-formed young man stood by her, carelessly leaning one elbow on a bale of cotton while a large pocket-book lay open before him.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
4  The law regards him, in every respect, as devoid of rights as a bale of merchandise.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
5  When the huntsman saw that, he went back and fetched three men to come with buckets and bale out the water.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In IRON HANS
6  The hospitals overflowed and wounded lay on the floors of empty stores and upon cotton bales in the warehouses.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
7  Scarlett thought of the scores of bales Tara usually yielded and her head hurt worse.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
8  The Confederate government took cotton for taxes in lieu of money, but three bales wouldn't even cover the taxes.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
9  There was more cotton in the fields than she or Pork had estimated, probably four bales, and soon the cabins would be full.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
10  And we cleared a fair crop this last fall, twenty bales.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
11  In the semi- darkness she saw boxes and bales of goods, plows and harness and saddles and cheap pine coffins.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
12  The woman walked forward among the boxes and bales of the lower deck, and, sitting down, busied herself with chirruping to her baby.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
13  The trader searched the boat from stem to stern, among boxes, bales and barrels, around the machinery, by the chimneys, in vain.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
14  Three hundred bales of cotton went through it last year.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VII
15  Twenty thousand bales of ginned cotton went yearly to England, New and Old; and men that came there bankrupt made money and grew rich.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VII
Example Sentence:
1  The room Jacques and I occupied, though large, was dwarfed by an immense feather bed. It was a bed to end all beds, almost as big as a tennis court and as thick as a bale of hay.
2  When the storm rose on the river, they had to bale out to reach the shore safely.
3  The fortune teller made baleful predictions of terrible things to come.
4  Local people can still recall the baleful glow in the night as the mill blazed.
5  Outdoor concerts are fine for country singers, provided they involve cutting and baling hay from the seating areas before hand.