Sheaf

//ʃiːf//

"Sheaf" in a Sentence (13 examples)

And no one ever knew a Battle Sheaf to be among the last load at a Harvest Home.

Anne came out of the fragrant twilight of the orchard with a sheaf of white narcissi in her hands.

The peasants raised a pole against a wall, and tied a sheaf of oats on to the top, so that the little birds might have a good meal on the happy Christmas day.

The sun rose bright and shone upon the sheaf of oats, and the twittering birds surrounded the pole.

And he said to them: Hear my dream which I dreamed. I thought we were binding sheaves in the field: and my sheaf arose as it were, and stood, and your sheaves standing about bowed down before my sheaf.

O, let me teach you how to knit again / This scattered corn into one mutual sheaf, / These broken limbs again into one body.

Ev’n while the Reaper fills his greedy hands, / And binds the golden Sheafs in brittle bands

a sheaf of paper

Together the two men march up the aisle and mount the dais, and while Muspole shakes hands with the chairman and his lady, the major draws a sheaf of notes from a briefcase and lays them on the table.

The sheaf of arrows shook, and rattled in the case.

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Arrows were anciently made of reeds, afterwards of cornel wood, and occasionally of every species of wood: but according to Roger Ascham, ash was best; arrows were reckoned by sheaves, a sheaf consisted of twenty-four arrows.

to sheaf wheat

They that reap must sheaf and bind; Then to cart with Rosalind.

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