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There will be live music throughout the day, a fun fare, bouncing castle, tug of war, sheaf throwing and a whole host of entertainment.
Macra has also put together a whole host of novelty competitions and farm skills displays, from sheaf tossing to round bale rolling.
The corn spirit was to live in the cornfield and die as the last sheaf was cut to be re-born in the Corn Dolly.
Early depictions of Cain portray him as a bearded man holding a sheaf of grain in one hand and vine-bearing grapes in the other.
At the very outset, before the grain was harvested, one sheaf of barley would be cut and waved before the Lord.
He waved at a chair and handed me a sheaf of typed paper and I started reading, rocking the stroller with my foot.
Upon making a decision the Emperor would have his servants place a sheaf of paper either over or under the rock.
Above the mural crown is a garb or sheaf of wheat or corn used to represent farming.
She is there in the Omer, the sheaf of barley offered on the second day of the Passover.
At harvest festival, Grant's the bakers would provide a massive bread loaf in the shape of a sheaf of corn, propped up on the altar.
Seven years later, he exhumed her corpse to rescue the sheaf of poems that, in a Romantic fit, he had buried with her.
I shot him a look, but was soon ambushed by a sheaf of papers being thrust at me.
She stuck a sheaf of paper into her stapler and punched down much harder than was necessary.
The large man left the stage, and a small weedy man holding a sheaf of papers occupied it.
A large sheaf of unbound A4 pages is messy and difficult to file.
With her tip-tilted nose and sheaf of brown hair, Mulgrew as Isolt even resembles John W. Waterhouse's Pre-Raphaelite paintings of mythic medieval heroines.
Tossing the caber and sheaf pitching are other crowd-pleasers.
It's but one selection from a sheaf of available possibilities, and not anywhere near the most responsive, equitable or fructifying among them.
Healer Marissa Shanloff raised a sheaf of parchments in the air.
The decadent food, which include lashings of pricey ingredients such as lobster and goose liver, has gained the restaurant two Michelin stars and a sheaf of awards.
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Peter opened a packing case, picked out a sheaf of papers, and sitting opposite Linda, began to read.
He brought forth from a pocket a neat sheaf of banknotes, which he held out.
Mr. Gish merely presented her a sheaf of assorted angle-worms, neatly bound with a pink ribbon tied into a simple knot.
The gleaner's sheaf looked like the knot of a girl's hair woven in and bound.
Dr. Manelli looked away sharply, and leafed through the thick sheaf of chart papers in his hand.
He extracted a fifty-dollar certificate from the sheaf, and handed it over.
There was an ink-horn, a box of pounce, some quills, and a sheaf of paper there.
He had fished from his pocket a sheaf of clippings and was perusing them intently.
But no, the guard of a half hour before was staring, popeyed, at the sheaf of bills.
Such were the cakes of shewbread, the meal and drink offerings, the first sheaf at Passover, the two loaves at Pentecost.
In that sheaf was the harvest mouse, bruised but alive, a prisoner in the dark.
Manning had picked up a sheaf of typescript from the table next to him and was flipping through it, his lips pursed grimly.
The Aeroplane Lady, bracingly cheerful, met them with a sheaf of official documents for the young Army aviator.
Wain was a smooth customer who bugged his eyes and lost some of his tan when he saw the sheaf of bills.
To men the beneficent runes came through the same god who as a child came with the sheaf of grain and the tools to scandia.
Lanyard gathered them into a sheaf and scanned them cursorily, even with distaste.
The Pathan laughed and came back to gather him like a sheaf of corn.
Joshua supporting the case against his thigh, got out a sheaf of papers.
Here is a specimen, taken at random from the first month's sheaf.
Thus, a blazing spear, a sword of flame, a bow, or a sheaf of arrows seen in the midnight sky, prefigured Indian warfare.
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