English vocabulary examples in context: bale
Vocabulary in context: bale -- Example 1.
But, while he was approaching, one of the bales of cargo, shifted by the rolling of the ship, fell down and blocked up the passage.
Vocabulary in context: bale -- Example 2.
Arthur Pym contrived to slip through the stowage of the hold, but his head swam, and, falling against a bale, he let his knife drop from his hand.
Vocabulary in context: bale -- Example 3.
The cargo of the Grampus was so badly stowed away that Arthur Pym was in constant danger from the shifting of the bales, and Augustus, at all risks, helped him to remove to a corner of the ‘tween decks.
Vocabulary in context: bale -- Example 4.
“Mr. Jeorling,” said Captain Len Guy, “do you observe a promontory in the direction of the north-east?” “I observe it, captain.” “Is it not formed of heaped-up rocks which look like giant bales of cotton?” “That is so, and just what the narrative describes.” “Then all we have to do is to land on the promontory, Mr. leoding.
Vocabulary in context: bale -- Example 5.
After they had pushed the boat into the sea, three men had got into it with bales and casks, while ten others strove to control the half-breed.
Vocabulary in context: bale -- Example 6.
Three days later, on the 18th of January, the first bales of cotton began to be packed in the hold: although James Playfair troubled himself no more about it, the firm of Playfair and Co. were making an excellent bargain, having obtained the cotton which encumbered the Charleston wharves at very far less than its value.
Vocabulary in context: bale -- Example 7.
Some bales of cotton were thrown into the engine-room, a barrel of spirits broached over them, and this expensive fuel placed, not without danger, in the red-hot furnaces.
Vocabulary in context: bale -- Example 8.
On the day following his liberation, he saw, at Grasse, in front of an orange-flower distillery, some men engaged in unloading bales.
Vocabulary in context: bale -- Example 9.
To have himself nailed up in a case and carried off like a bale of goods, to live for a long time in a box, to find air where there is none, to economize his breath for hours, to know how to stifle without dying-- this was one of Jean Valjean's gloomy talents.
Vocabulary in context: bale -- Example 10.
They were not heavy bales, which would have been difficult to remove, but simple packages, of which the stowage, besides, was no longer recognizable.
