Almost at my feet is a knapsack, ripped open and revealing a card of small china buttons, a new red handkerchief, a gray-striped flannel shirt, a pencil and a sheaf of writing paper.
This is done by tying a threshed-out sheaf of corn into a rough semblance of a head and body, while the arms are simulated by a broomstick thrust through it horizontally.
In some villages near Berleburg in Westphalia the old custom was to tie up the Yule log in the last sheaf cut at harvest.
From time to time the bearers would stand still and smite the earth all together with the blazing straw of the torches, while they cried, "A sheaf of a peck and a half!
In the district of Düsseldorf the straw-man burned on Shrove Tuesday was made of an unthreshedsheaf of corn.
Yet even through this torturing thought of a promise unkept, the Hawk's thumb and forefinger moved in their slight grinding motion on the first sheet of the sheaf of papers.
Well, I had come to Kurgo's house in the first place to arrange for supplies for building an addition to my laboratory, and I had with me a sheaf of papers containing plans for this addition.
Rapid had the ripening been--those years of suffering had done their work and the brief, but bright, sunshine that followed, made the sheaf ready for the garner.
I should tell you that I am now looking forward with great joy to--" With a long sigh he laid down the finely written sheet and took from the sheaf the two papers she had spoken of.
She came in, cheerful, a smallsheaf of papers in her hand.
MORE gives him a quick look, goes quietly to the dining-table and picks up his sheaf of notes.
Madame Von Egmond handled her sickle something better than a mere amateur, which make us conjecture it was not the first sheaf she had ever cut and bound.
Sometimes also they merely put the two hands round the sheaf (New Deer).
When the corn has been cut on all the crofts, the last sheaf is dressed up to look as like an old woman as possible.
M113) In Russia also the last sheaf is often shaped and dressed as a woman, and carried with dance and song to the farmhouse.
His account runs as follows: "The last sheaf cut is the object of much care: the manner of cutting it, binding it, and carrying it to the house varies a little in the different districts.
Thus in some parts of Silesia the person who cuts or binds the last sheaf is called the Wheat-dog or the Peas-pug.
The meaning is that "the sheaf has given birth to a calf.
In the last corn cut or the last sheaf threshed either the Corn-mother or the Corn-wolf, etc.
At Duerrenbuechig and about Mosbach in Baden the last sheaf is also called the Goat.
Sometimes it is thought that the person who binds the last sheaf on the field will die in the course of next year.
Thus in the neighbourhood of Eisenach a small sheaf is sometimes left standing on the field for "the Poor Old Woman.
The last sheaf is reaped by the farmer's wife, who carries it back to the house, where it is threshed and mixed with the Rice-soul.
The clyack sheaf was cut by the maidens on the harvest field.
He had expected the copies to be various, and had turned them half over at different depths of the sheaf before drawing out those he offered to the bill-sticker.
Then a boy ran in for Richard and he hastened away, while Nelly took a sheaf of flowers to the summer-house and made the table bright with them.
She was just passing, the first time, sumptuous with sunshine, and so fair that the loose sheaf of straw she carried in her arms seemed to him nut-brown by contrast.
Her hair was arranged in a coronet upon her head; a whole sheaf of golden curls hung down from it behind.
We worked for Mr. Keefer until the last sheaf of his six hundred acre crop was in stook.
Just then a damp sheaf from the bottom of a stook went in crosswise, and the automatic governor valve flew open.
Just as Keefer reached the end of his swath we overtook him, and Jack, seizing the sheaf that was still in the binder, tore it from the knotter and flung it to me where I stood beside a stook waiting to receive it.
So they did as he said, and in a ship they built a funeral pyre, and round it placed much gold and jewels, and on it laid a sheafof wheat.
The tireless easy swing of his great frame was wonderful to me and when, in my weariness, I failed to slash a band he smiled and tore the sheaf apart--thus deepening my love for him.
As from the sheltering sheaf I pluck and swing it high, the wide Field glows with noon-day heat, The winds are tangled in the wheat.
Even then, after the power was still, the cylinder kept its hum, till David throwing a last sheaf into its open maw, choked it into silence.
Then again to the Christmas sheaf they flew, In the sunlight, clear and cold: "Joy!
Besides having the Jul-gran or Christmas tree, each family places in the yard a pole with a sheaf of grain on top for the birds' Christmas dinner, a pretty custom common to many countries.
Tis hard," they gently said; "He gave us a sheaf of grain for food, When he had but three for bread.
And a piping tone of glee: "In that sheafthere is plenteous food and cheer, And the peasant had but three.
He ruins them at will, for what are men to him, More than to stabled cattle is the sheaf of straw?
Upon a sheaf of thunderbolts I rest my arm, And gods might wish my exploits with them were their own.
Sidney's hand shook as he picked up the sheaf of papers holding Huk's story.
He held up the sheaf of papers containing Huk's story.
If it happens to be a stack of sheaves, and she comes out of her merry bout with a sheaf hanging rakishly from one horn, she will look as happy as a woman coming out of a bargain-counter scrimmage with a new hat.
Such was the assistance which Boyle received from all "the Bees," that scarcely a few ears of that rich sheaf fall to his portion.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sheaf" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
