Broken limbs were common and occasionally a heavy bale crushed the life out of a worker.

The other two were still loading, one with a stream of heavy bales, the other with a trickle of smaller bundles.

The donkey, relieved of its heaviest bale, gave itself a little shake.

It was the chain used to cradle the heavy bales of hay and grain when they were swung upward by the groaning pulley blocks above.

The heaviest bale proved to contain chunks of itztetl, rough and unworked obsidian rocks.

The master used his strength to shift a heavy bale out of position.

The heavy bales of cotton slowed small arms fire, but at times the cotton would catch fire from artillery shells.

Dorrin sets his gear on a half wall to an empty stall and hoists a heavy bale onto the cart.

They were not heavy bales, which would have been difficult to remove, but simple packages, of which the stowage, besides, was no longer recognizable.

Two of the crewmen used jet scooters to haul the heavy bale of foil and other equipment.