Sheaf

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.

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.