cotton-press

Prosecuting my observations along the upper surface, I next came to the proboscis, which suggested the idea of a Bologna sausage after a passage through a cotton-press.

Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada Henry A. Murray

Then we ran off to the cotton-press to see the last bales pressed.

Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878 Various

Still farther back were the stables and the barns, the gin-house, the cotton-press, and the fields for pasturage.

With Sabre and Scalpel. The Autobiography of a Soldier and Surgeon John Allan 1914

Phares 14.4 records the case of a boy of nine who, while playing in the saw-gate of a cotton-press, was struck by the lever in revolution, the blow fracturing both bones of the leg about the middle.

Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

Phares records the case of a boy of nine who, while playing in the saw-gate of a cotton-press, was struck by the lever in revolution, the blow fracturing both bones of the leg about the middle.

Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

He said that he would have to charge them eight dollars such a night anywhere below the old cotton-press, where the pavement ended.

Waring's Peril Charles King 1888

On our horses out in the open road to the house, we sat, the girl perched behind the Colonel, and watched the fire mount and whirl and crackle behind the awful black arms of the cotton-press.

The Cavalier George Washington Cable 1884

The lint-box of the old cotton-press was covered with wet morning-glories.

The Cavalier George Washington Cable 1884

I counted thirty-eight spinning and weaving companies in Bombay, and twenty - one cotton-press companies; the shares of which were quoted in the market, and found that on an average these would not command to-day one-half the actual capital paid in.

Round the World Andrew Carnegie 1877

One warm-hearted, noble spirit, James D. Fresett, the proprietor of an extensive cotton-press, went in person to the aged chief, and implored him to take his people to shelter there.

The Memories of Fifty Years Sparks, William H 1870