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How to use sheaves in a sentence

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The wheat sheaves are being stooked to keep them dry until they are stacked.
According to Plutarch, Archimedes used a polypaston, or block and tackle, with a large number of sheaves.
I was harvested with sickles, tied in sheaves and buried in the bog-holes until such time as the skin peeled off easily.
They bend over in the small barley fields, terraced out of the mountainsides, cutting the sheaves with sickle moon scythes.
Appropriate exit sheaves, swivel exits for topping lifts and spinnaker halyard blocks are provided.
Experience the sight and sound of the traditional threshing mill with Charlie Bourke, and friends, as they separate the grain from the sheaves.
They bring sheaves of reeds exceeding their own height, balanced like the cross-stroke of a majuscular T on their heads.
Roark wearily turned through sheaves of line drawings and pencil sketches spread on the table in front of them.
Finally the sheaves were beaten in a machine, in a process termed scutching.
Before being bamboozled by the sheaves of glossy brochures, make sure that managed funds are the most suitable investment vehicle for you.
Soviet-style posters of happy storm troopers and peasant girls fondling potent sheaves fade and curl in the hot wind.
As she seems easily fooled, why not send yourself sheaves of valentines and other billets-doux?
Schythes were swung, sheaves were tied and built into stooks in an overflowing gesture of co-operation and goodwill.
Are usually himself of the penetration macles grouped in bundles looking like sheaves.
In our garden it grows with forget-me-nots and sheaves of leaves from last autumn's colchicums.
In July 2000, this gangway had been chipped and repainted, and the sheaves, pulleys, and other deck fittings had been greased.
And the villagers were bemused to see city folk trying to twist rice into sheaves as if they were 18th-century peasants.
This consists of bunching the bulbs together, with a bunch on one side and the next on another, to form sheaves.
Gustavian looking glasses were symmetrical, with decoration such as beading, rose swags, laurel leaf borders, palmettes, sheaves, and rope-tied crests.
He also intends to invest in a comber to strip away unwanted leaves and a trailer so he can take sheaves to customers as far afield as Ireland and France.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Some bore ale and beer, and some bundles of bowstrings or sheaves of arrows.
The fields were dotted with sheaves of grain, and the farmers were hastening to gather them in.
All blocks are single, double, or three-fold, according to the number of sheaves in them.
Their weeping seed-sowing was followed by rejoicing, bringing their sheaves with them.
This kind of machinery, revolving with three sheaves, is called a trispast.
One man did the cradling and another the gathering and the binding into sheaves.
From for'ard came the jerking rattle of headsail halyards through the sheaves.
Black-game are as keen as red grouse on oats, and a few sheaves thrown about always attracts them.
We must study it as a whole, gleaning rich and varied sheaves as we go.
But coming they shall come with joyfulness, carrying their sheaves.
Sermons must not be nosegays of flowers, but sheaves of wheat.
Those thews ran not through base blocks of land wood, but deftly travelled over sheaves of sea-ivory.
He found a cornfield with a half-built stack, and sheaves in stook.
Die Hocke was, in the language of Lower Saxony, a heap of sheaves.
In another locality he is the bringer of grapes and barley sheaves.
While they uncovered the sheaves he stood apathetic beside his portable repository of force, round whose hot blackness the morning air quivered.
She is seated on sheaves of wheat and crowned with a gallant garland of wheat ears interlaced with salsify and other flowers.
Spring had vanished and the sheaves were ripening in the fields.
The women reaped the Corn, and the men bound up the sheaves.
August brings the sheaves of corn, Then the harvest home is borne.
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