The sheaves of wheat were piled high in the barn. From LearnThat.org.
Noun : a sheaf of papers. From Dictionary.com.
And all this proven in sheaves of documents and letters which he shook in my face!. From Wordnik.com. [Dominion of Canada Day Luncheon] Reference
Surrounding the eagle, inside the legends, is a nearly concentric partial wreath of grain sheaves, tied at the bottom with a double-looped ribbon. From Wordnik.com. [Morgan Dollar, 1878-1921 : Coin Guide] Reference
And bundles up in sheaves, the weighty wheat. From Wordnik.com. [Several Poems Compiled with Great Variety of Wit and Learning, Full of Delight] Reference
The homeliness of the 'sheaves' is in striking contrast with the grandeur of the 'sun, moon, and stars.'. From Wordnik.com. [Expositions of Holy Scripture] Reference
When ye bind up the sheaves, leave out a few grains. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference
When they get through they'll return with the sheaves. From Wordnik.com. [Our Little Brown House, A Poem of West Point Written for the New Year's Festival at the Cadets' Sabbath-school of the Methodist Episcopal Church, January 1, 1879] Reference
Over yonder the reapers were gathering the last sheaves. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The blocks used have each three rows of sheaves side by side. From Wordnik.com. [The Ten Books on Architecture] Reference
As on the field the reapers sing, while binding up the sheaves!. From Wordnik.com. [One Thousand Secrets of Wise and Rich Men Revealed] Reference
They fall like sheaves before the scythes of Hardee and of Bragg. From Wordnik.com. [How the Flag Became Old Glory] Reference
Paint and brush, sheaves of small drawings, this guy travels light. From Wordnik.com. [Ethan Murrow: Big Wall, Slow Pace. The New Work of Joe Biel.] Reference
But coming they shall come with joyfulness, carrying their sheaves. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 21: Psalms The Challoner Revision] Reference
The soldiers alighted, cut down the grain, tied it in sheaves, and rode away with it. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Stories for the Story-teller] Reference
It was made up of myriads of snowy sheaves, sometimes with the faintest amethyst tint. From Wordnik.com. [Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon and California] Reference
Men walked over the sheaves, children and dogs romped among them, and no one said them nay. From Wordnik.com. [A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia] Reference
One man is required to drive the machine, and one or two men to pick up and stook the sheaves. From Wordnik.com. [Wheat Growing in Australia] Reference
This is accomplished by reeving the slack of each chain over two fixed sets of multiple sheaves. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 488, May 9, 1885] Reference
Future job hunters may never know the drudgery of typing, copying and mailing out sheaves of resumes. From Wordnik.com. [The All-Day, All-Night, Global, No-Trouble Job Search] Reference
Let harvest hymns be sung, while groaning wagons drag to bursting barns their mighty weight of sheaves. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Among the harvesters were three young women, who were nimbly binding sheaves, with little children around them. From Wordnik.com. [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference
Headquarters, and the sheaves of papers they sent to Brigade were mostly filled with scraps of our own messages. From Wordnik.com. [The Sherwood Foresters in the Great War 1914 - 1919 History of the 1/8th Battalion] Reference
Though she met Him so late, when she stood in His presence a little later in glory she had her hands full of sheaves. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons on Biblical Characters] Reference
Ordinary people don't usually rise at four a.m. for the purpose of walking round a soaking field stroking sheaves of corn. From Wordnik.com. ['Brother Bosch', an Airman's Escape from Germany] Reference
So she added one here and another there till she was satisfied that the sheaf would be of all the sheaves the most beautiful. From Wordnik.com. [Fireside Stories for Girls in Their Teens] Reference
Your bodies shall lie like sheaves upon our fields; the ruins of your castles fly like chaff beneath the flail of the thresher!. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
"He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing bringing his sheaves with him.". From Wordnik.com. [Trials and Triumphs of Faith] Reference
"He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.". From Wordnik.com. [Trials and Triumphs of Faith] Reference
A mother took her child to the gleaning field, and left it sleeping under the sheaves of wheat whilst she was busily engaged gleaning. From Wordnik.com. [Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales] Reference
And the fruitfulness of the seven years came: and the corn being bound up into sheaves, was gathered together into the barns of Egypt. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 01: Genesis The Challoner Revision] Reference
Concentrating our attention on cap sheaves and superlatives rather generally we very easily lose sight of features less conspicuous though highly important. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Eleventh Annual Meeting Washington, D. C. October 7 and 8, 1920] Reference
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