Different weights of "sheafs" will be used by different ages.    From Wordnik.com.  [The McPherson Sentinel Homepage RSS] Reference

Some walked purposefully, clutching sheafs of paper.    From Wordnik.com.  [Over the Edge] Reference

“Now,” said Blair, rustling through sheafs of statements.    From Wordnik.com.  [Death of a Gossip]

He eyed the silky sheafs of hair streaming from beneath her hat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thief Of Hearts]

G in such vast sheafs of light, as almost to hide the waning moons.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Queen of Air and Darkness]

He held up yellowed sheafs of paper, letting the gusty wind ruffle them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thief Of Hearts]

And why do people always have only “slim” sheafs of their own poetry?.    From Wordnik.com.  [SeeLight:] Reference

The sheafs of the foxgloves are worked in crochet stitch edged stem stitch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jacobean Embroidery Its Forms and Fillings Including Late Tudor] Reference

The small room was all books and scrolls and sheafs of paper, or so it appeared.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lord of Chaos]

Those are the linen sheafs of postcards in an accordion fold, usually rather blurry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Monday, Oct. 19 – The Bleat.] Reference

He darted at the secretaries and tore the sheafs of business papers from their hands.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wild Dreams of Reality, 5] Reference

Shirl was back in five minutes flat, with a stack of neatly collated and stapled sheafs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Futures Imperfect]

Shields were hung along the rails, and sheafs of spears, bows and arrows adorned the mast.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hour of the Dragon]

The golden corn-sheafs — the old dark-alleyed orchards, and the high streets of antique towns.    From Wordnik.com.  [Uncle Silas] Reference

Upon some of them were parchment scrolls, leather-bound books, and sheafs of paper bound with twine.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hawk Eternal]

Her wedding dress looks like a costume from Les Miserables, torn sheafs of custom-faded ivory silk gauze.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kitchen God's wife]

Satterlee flushed, picked up his briefcase and took out a stack of papers, four individually clipped sheafs.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Big Nowhere]

At the drugstore, I stood in line with my razor blades, a whole new pack of five safety blades in cardboard sheafs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Officer Friendly] Reference

There were no other books in the saddlebag, just sheafs of paper that proved to be verse, all written in the same meticulous hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sharpe's Regiment]

I like that I go through ink cartridges because it gives the sense of producing something, just like going through sheafs of paper does.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-10-01] Reference

"Bring the sacred sheafs and the mystic offerings.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Eugene Aram — Complete] Reference

Allies than sheafs of diplomatic cablegrams and notes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of the Great War, Volume I (of 8) Introductions; Special Articles; Causes of War; Diplomatic and State Papers] Reference

It comes with short, descending screams -- sheafs of them together.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters from France] Reference

The western towers are grouped into something like the clustered sheafs of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III] Reference

“Sit down,” invited Thomas, sweeping sheafs of papers from two chairs on to the floor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Final Curtain]

Police stopped traffic to gather the sheafs of paper, then stuffed them into a garbage can.    From Wordnik.com.  [Statesman - AP Sports] Reference

The golden corn-sheafs -- the old dark-alleyed orchards, and the high streets of antique towns.    From Wordnik.com.  [Uncle Silas A Tale of Bartram-Haugh] Reference

Familiar with infinite universe sheafs and open-ended postulate systems? ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Between Planets]

The play is evolving all the time and David is always bringing in sheafs of new pages.’.    From Wordnik.com.  [Whipping up a storm] Reference

Not with this delusion of wealth, these sheafs of Promises to Pay the Government is issuing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Long Roll] Reference

Over the sheafs of sea.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Annotated "China Cat Sunflower"] Reference

Why are manuscripts of poetry always “sheafs”?.    From Wordnik.com.  [SeeLight:] Reference

With sheafs of Barly-bread to make.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wit and Mirth: or Pills to Purge Melancholy, Vol. 5 of 6] Reference

Promising sheafs of ripe Autumnal days.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Penelope and Other Stories and Poems] Reference

To strut thy barns with sheafs of wheat.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hesperides & Noble Numbers: Vol. 1 and 2] Reference