How To Use Sheaf In A Sentence

I bet you have your own sheaf of pathetic poesy you want to bore us with.
Dr. Edgar Sheaffer, who writes for The Health Care Letter, recommends combining a dietary approach, citrus dips, and remedies such as arsenicum album, lachesis, lycopodium, or ledum palustre to deal with fleas. 250 Things You Can Do to Make Your Cat Adore You
At Chambéry the last sheaf is called the sheaf of the Young Ox, and a race takes place to it in which all the reapers join. The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion
But the capsheaf come about a year ago, when Nancy had a smart little sum o 'money left her, -- nigh onto a hunderd dollars. Meadow Grass Tales of New England Life
A zoftig gospel singer showed up toting a sheaf of notes, lyrics, and throat diagrams. Ken Levine: American Idol Inaugural Balls

As she uncomfortably lowered herself onto the chair on the guest side of his desk, he pulled a sheaf of parchment tied together with twine from a desk drawer.
The Government's commitment to changing the law became clear in October, when Home Office officials left a sheaf of confidential papers in a Westminster pub.
She moved the sheaf of papers into position.
There will be live music throughout the day, a fun fare, bouncing castle, tug of war, sheaf throwing and a whole host of entertainment.
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.
When I went into his office, Arnie was red in the face and staring incredulously at the sheaf of papers I had given nim. A CONVICTION OF GUILT
I have sheafs of poetry notes, experiments and scribbles, but nothing finished.
Like leaves before the wind, the boys rushed out by a back door into the play-ground, while the master solemnly passed to his house, with a deep slow bow to the ladies; and there was poor Scudamore -- most diffident of men whenever it came to lady-work -- left to face the visitors with a pleasing knowledge that his neckcloth was dishevelled, and his hair sheafed up, the furrows of his coat broadcast with pounce, and one of his hands gone to sleep from holding a heavy Delphin for three-quarters of an hour. Springhaven : a Tale of the Great War
(Plus we still recall the sheaf of transparencies that showed each layer of the human body that could be laid one over the other.) Marc Hershon: Tripping Up the Know-It-None: Five Places on the Web to Find the Truth
He took a sheaf of eight-by-ten glossy color photographs and passed them over to Dr. Cornell. TROPIC OF NIGHT
The rye straw would be scutched or flayed during the long winter nights, sheafed and left ready for the thatcher.
An Egg Samuel Butler, for the notebook of housewives, may be summarized as a pyramid, based upon toast, whereof the chief masonries are a flake of bacon, an egg poached to firmness, a wreath of mushrooms, a cap-sheaf of red peppers; the whole dribbled with a warm pink sauce of which the inventor retains the secret. The Haunted Bookshop
The library has stone totem poles on either side of the entrance, and the banks are embellished with sculpted friezes of bush planes, wheat sheafs, geese and wildflowers.
But once they got the place, 'twas aisy to see that Dick meant to get rid o 'Caleb, an' the capsheaf was put last year, about his Dog, old Turk. Two Little Savages Being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned
The Sun and warmth gave its own comfort, and to my delight I saw whole sheafs of May roses, full in bud and ready to bloom, along the track as we went on.
Weaponry consisted of battleaxes, thrusting spears and daggers for the infantry, while the leaders in their battlewagons carry sheafs of javelins.
At lower left, one putto sits wedged between a sheaf of wheat that rests upon a pile of game, and grape vines surmounted by a cluster of hanging fowl. Alexis Soyer and the Rise of the Celebrity Chef
Later in the day Graham called to let me know he's found another agent, viewed another flat, paid a holding deposit and is returning home with a sheaf of papers to get the rental and the lease sorted out.
His first glimpse of her, on Class Day, in a white gown and a hat that to his manly indiscrimination looked as guileless as a sheaf of poppies nodding above the pale-yellow hair that had the sheen of corn-silk, had been a vision that stirred in him heroic promptings. Judith of the Plains
The wooden bins, wisp-floored and empty of mice, will soon be heaped high by the strong arms of laughing young men boasting of the height of their sheafs, the speed of their reaping, and the goodness of their grains.
Godwin, very pointedly, was staring at a sheaf of continuous paper on his lap. THE LAST RAVEN
Earlier in the year they had grown barley, cut it with a reaper and binder and had it all in sheafs.
For weeks before the book came, sheafs of papers did: advance reviews, pictures of a man with the suggestion of a mocking smile, the dates of his visit.
Scudamore — most diffident of men whenever it came to lady-work — left to face the visitors with a pleasing knowledge that his neckcloth was dishevelled, and his hair sheafed up, the furrows of his coat broadcast with pounce, and one of his hands gone to sleep from holding a heavy Delphin for three-quarters of an hour. Springhaven
He further succeeded in convincing the youth that a few years in Italy would add the capsheaf to his talent. Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters
Are those flames shooting out the back of the pimpmobile or is about to run over some sheafs of wheat? Ow.
Section 33.9 is six pages of Penrose trying to explain "sheaf cohomology" whose ideas "… are fairly sophisticated mathematically, but actually very natural. Are Changes Brewing and How Does the Mind Fit In?
The speaker came into the hall carrying a sheaf of notes.
At the commencement of the reaping the stalks of this patch of rice are tied together into a sheaf, which is called "the Mother of the Rice" (ineno pae), and offerings in the shape of rice, fowl's liver, eggs, and other things are laid down before it. The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion
I am currently sitting in a hut roofed with sheafs of grass; it's nearly midnight.
The "knotter" tying device had to be moved frequently to keep the binder twine around the middle of the sheaf according to the length of the straw. SIMCOE - Home
Benjamin's greatest testament is the massive sheaf of materials known as The Arcades Project, started in 1927 and left unfinished at his death in 1940. "History is an angel being blown backwards into the future"
Shocked, Dubble slipped on a sheaf of papers, screeched and struck his head against one of the cabinets, and when he recovered to his feet he regarded his Commander with a cold, inimical glower.
He waved at a chair and handed me a sheaf of typed paper and I started reading, rocking the stroller with my foot.
She'd gone as far as the shrubbery, to collect a sheaf of bright leaves for the music room. A RAKE'S VOW
A trilogy of plaster furnishings is in the naturalistic manner of Serge Roche, the French designer whose output Elsie de Wolfe and Syrie Maugham competed for in the '30s: a palm-tree torchier ($200 to $300), a mirror with pie-crust shell work ($500 to $800) and a glass table with a wheat-sheaf base ($200 to $300). NYT > Home Page
The beautiful glow in the west died out, where the sun had been ripening his harvest-field of sheafy gold and awny cloud; and the pulse of quivering dusk beat slowly, so that a man might seem to count it, or rather a child, who sees such things, which later men lose sight of. Springhaven
10 They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry; 11 Which make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
IT was lovely, thought Mrs. Miniver, nodding good-bye to the flower-woman and carrying her big sheaf of chrysanthemums down the street with a kind of ceremonious joy, as though it were a cornucopia; it was lovely, this settling down again, this tidying away of the summer into its box, this taking up of the thread of one's life where the holidays (irrelevant interlude) had made one drop it. Mrs. Miniver
And as a capsheaf to it all, the painter must choose an opportune moment and present his beautiful carriage and horses to the Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 04 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters
The points of minimum speed form a basin in the sheaf of dynamical paths, and when the paths are projected down into trajectories through the corner, the set of apices form an extended patch on the road surface. Archive 2009-05-01
When the band stopped playing, and Ellen, who as valedictorian came last as the crown and capsheaf of it all, stepped forward from the semicircle of white-clad girls and seriously abashed boys, there was The Portion of Labor
The show tells the story of the Wheatsheaf Arms, a bunch of no-hopers playing amateur Rugby League in Hull.
At the very outset, before the grain was harvested, one sheaf of barley would be cut and waved before the Lord.
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.
Inside was a jumble of chromium-plated bits of metal, hunks of broken glass, a large slab of dented mud guard, and a sheaf of the inevitable evidence envelopes. The Moor
I recalled a well-known acoustic phenomenon," he wrote, "namely if you place your ear against one end of a wooden beam, the scratch of a pin at the other extremity is most distinctly audible … Taking a sheaf of paper, I rolled it into a very tight roll, one end of which I placed over the praecordial region, while I put my ear to the other. New at Creativity-Portal.com
The most stunning gown is one of silk organza, with sheafs of wheat stitched in straw.
She reached again into her tote bag, pulling out a sheaf of papers and a softbound book with a green cover that she handed to me. The Viognier Vendetta
When Donna graduated from college, she became a food stylist at a time when a sheaf of wheat, a spray of carnations and a patterned plate were required to accessorise a fruit cake for photography.
Sometimes he prefers good people to places of trust and honour (v. 7): With kings are they on the throne, and every sheaf is made to bow to theirs. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
I hope nothing is wrong about mistress," said Maryann, who with some other women was tying the bundles (oats being always sheafed on this farm), "but an unlucky token came to me indoors this morning. Far from the Madding Crowd
The ceremony took various forms, but most ended with the sheaf being taken back to the farm where it was plaited into an intricate ‘corn dolly’ or ‘mell doll’.
He was in shorts, like one of the errant schoolboys he used to chastise, clutching a sheaf of papers, or hastily-composed homework, shaking his general defiance.
Foremen with slates and sheafs of written orders swarmed about, shouting for their sections as they found the crates and parcels and bales whose labels matched their instructions.
Weaponry consisted of battleaxes, thrusting spears and daggers for the infantry, while the leaders in their battlewagons carry sheafs of javelins.
My advice, come lunchtime, is look for a wheatsheaf painted beside a door and find yourself a bouchon, the traditional Lyonnais bistro named after the straw plugs once used as bottle-stoppers.
Today morning while stapling a sheaf of papers, I forgot that my finger was below and I was in such a fit of caffeine-induced working enthusiasm, I stapled my finger along with the papers.
The very same magazine now prints sheafs of articles depicting the Earth as an overheating greenhouse, like this anecdote from the September 6, 2004 Newsweek.
It needed only as a capsheaf the gleam of incredulous dismay which should appear in his wife's eyes when she looked first upon the mutilated tissue, the varying scars and cicatrices, the twisted mask that would be revealed to her as the face of her husband. The Hidden Places
Godwin, very pointedly, was staring at a sheaf of continuous paper on his lap. THE LAST RAVEN
His back against the wall, the smell of freshly baked pastries from a nearby stall wafting past him, Orphan broke the crude seal on the bottle and withdrew, with great care, the sheaf of paper that nestled inside. EXCLUSIVE EXCERPT 5/5: The Bookman by Lavie Tidhar
A lawyer walked in carrying a whole sheaf of papers.
Julia chose this moment to enter, a sheaf of reports under her arm. A MEANS TO EVIL
So he came through the door that morning and he had in his hand a sheaf of papers and he said this is what I've got to present at the United Nations according to the White House and you need to look at it.
Julia chose this moment to enter, a sheaf of reports under her arm. A MEANS TO EVIL
In my hand was a sheaf of poor-quality writing paper, covered with a barely legible scrawl. THE EXECUTION
Earlier in the year they had grown barley, cut it with a reaper and binder and had it all in sheafs.
In my hand was a sheaf of poor-quality writing paper, covered with a barely legible scrawl. THE EXECUTION
A very neat series of little variations is sheafed together, and called "Mosaics. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and
She had working hands that knew the feel of turf in the spring, the cuts and scrapes from sheafing oats, the soil of picking spuds in the back-end, all part of the annual cycle which had remained unchanged for years until more recent times.
Tossing the caber and sheaf pitching are other crowd-pleasers.
Secreted elsewhere is a sheaf of white writing paper.
The first Golden Sheaf Award was presented in 1956, when it was decided that the festival should present a grand prize.
So it was last week when, timed carefully to cash in on the Easter holiday, the “serious” editors of National Geographic chose to release the gleanings from a sheaf of rags and call them “The Gospel of Judas.” Think Progress » Shep Smith Embarrassed by O’Reilly’s ‘War on Easter’?
Macra has also put together a whole host of novelty competitions and farm skills displays, from sheaf tossing to round bale rolling.
At the commencement of the reaping the stalks of this patch of rice are tied together into a sheaf, which is called the Mother of the Rice (ineno pae), and offerings in the shape of rice, fowls liver, eggs, and other things are laid down before it. Chapter 46. The Corn-Mother in Many Lands. § 2. The Rice-mother in the East Indies
She took out her sheaf of forms, the MMPI and the MCMI-III, the sentence completion sheet. A THEORY OF RELATIVITY
Without referring to the sheaf of papers and folders on his lap, Carmine commenced. TOO MANY MURDERS
We’re standing beneath the adit of our long-desolate cave, proffering a sheaf of papers that you might consider a manuscript. What Kind of Young Writer Were You?
And as a capsheaf to it all, the painter must choose an opportune moment and present his beautiful carriage and horses to the King, for the belief was rife that the King of Spain was really more horsey than artistic. Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters
A large sheaf of unbound A4 pages is messy and difficult to file.
A widespread custom, also designed to please the prophet and maximise crops, was to leave uncut on the field the last sheaf of grain, tying it into a special twist, known as ‘Il'ia's beard’.
Seven years later, he exhumed her corpse to rescue the sheaf of poems that, in a Romantic fit, he had buried with her.
Weaponry consisted of battleaxes, thrusting spears and daggers for the infantry, while the leaders in their battlewagons carry sheafs of javelins.
When I went into his office, Arnie was red in the face and staring incredulously at the sheaf of papers I had given nim. A CONVICTION OF GUILT
Scribbling on a sheaf of linen-textured paper which he normally reserved for his letters to Anthony on Starbase 92, he rendered a translation of what he suspected was a formula for calculating the correct time and place at which to deploy the pyramid around Mu Arae. Creative Couplings
She'd gone as far as the shrubbery, to collect a sheaf of bright leaves for the music room. A RAKE'S VOW
The last instance of their being spoken to, is thus still handed down by tradition: -- ''Twas on a beautifully clear evening in the month of August, when the last sheaf had crowned the last stack in their master's hagyard, and after calling the "harvest home," the daytale-men and household servants were enjoying themselves over massive pewter quarts foaming over with strong beer, that the subject of the evening's conversation at last turned upon the fairies of the neighbouring hill, and each related his oft-told tale which he had learned by rote from the lips of some parish grandame. Notes and Queries, Number 61, December 28, 1850
The golden corn-sheafs — the old dark-alleyed orchards, and the high streets of antique towns. Uncle Silas
I keep squinting up at the clock and accidentally catching the eye of busy-looking workers who scurry by with sheafs of paper, steaming mugs of coffee and harried expressions.
Healer Marissa Shanloff raised a sheaf of parchments in the air.
She is there in the Omer, the sheaf of barley offered on the second day of the Passover.
The sledge-wielder pours out more strength and certitude and joy in every blow than do you in your whole sheaf of songs. The Kempton-Wace Letters
Samuel Butler, for the notebook of housewives, may be summarized as a pyramid, based upon toast, whereof the chief masonries are a flake of bacon, an egg poached to firmness, a wreath of mushrooms, a cap-sheaf of red peppers; the whole dribbled with a warm pink sauce of which the inventor retains the secret. The Haunted Bookshop
I didn't have to sign sheafs and sheafs of paper.
Max went to the stinkwood desk which filled one corner of the room and picked up a sheaf of papers. When the Lion Feeds
Dr. Edgar Sheaffer, who writes for The Health Care Letter, recommends combining a dietary approach, citrus dips, and remedies such as arsenicum album, lachesis, lycopodium, or ledum palustre to deal with fleas. 250 Things You Can Do to Make Your Cat Adore You
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.
At Chambéry the last sheaf is called the sheaf of the Young Ox, and a race takes place to it in which all the reapers join. Chapter 48. The Corn-Spirit as an Animal. § 7. The Corn-spirit as a Bull, Cow, or Ox
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.
Upon making a decision the Emperor would have his servants place a sheaf of paper either over or under the rock.
Any one who has seen fireworks will recall the sheaf formed of interlacing lightnings which is called a bouquet. Les Miserables
The decision has generated sheafs of proposed new abortion legislation, pro and anti, at state level.
Maryann, who with some other women was tying the bundles (oats being always sheafed on this farm), “but an unlucky token came to me indoors this morning. Far from the Madding Crowd
The typewriter is under siege from a stapler, a hole punch and several sheafs kept in line by glass paperweights, but doesn't look worried.
The crest has an oak tree dimidiated with a wheatsheaf, bound together by a blue and white wave.
I shot him a look, but was soon ambushed by a sheaf of papers being thrust at me.
The beautiful glow in the west died out, where the sun had been ripening his harvest-field of sheafy gold and awny cloud; and the pulse of quivering dusk beat slowly, so that a man might seem to count it, or rather a child, who sees such things, which later men lose sight of. Springhaven
I became convinced that not only was this noisome sheaf the genuine article, but the original document that he had left behind when vanished back into whatever mists had spawned him.
a room which was papered with photographs, chiefly of the nude and the semi-nude, intermingled with sheafs of playbills that hung from the walls like ballads, from the board of the balladmonger. The Christian A Story
The large man left the stage, and a small weedy man holding a sheaf of papers occupied it.
She stuck a sheaf of paper into her stapler and punched down much harder than was necessary.
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.
This would have seen the current station demolished and the area transformed into a public square, with direct access to the Wheatsheaf Centre for shoppers.
And when later on, eager to discover a truth, we reascend from deduction to deduction, turning over our memory like a sheaf of written evidence, when we arrive at that sentence, at that gesture, which it is impossible to recall, we begin again a score of times the same process, but in vain: the road goes no farther. The Sweet Cheat Gone
In my hand was a sheaf of poor-quality writing paper, covered with a barely legible scrawl. THE EXECUTION
Zinoviev and his group had no difficulty in perceiving that the congress would put the political capsheaf on the physical rout that had begun in the streets of Moscow and Leningrad on the tenth anniversary of the October revolution. My Life
I know you don't want to come out and say it until you have the whole crop sheafed, because you are too modest, but I know you have the crime solved and will soon announce the killers. Soul of the Fire
The speaker came into the hall carrying a sheaf of notes.
Parker, Sheaffer and Waterman, capture the smaller upscale markets of fountain pens and expensive ballpoints.
His name and rank are embossed on the bottom of the sheafs, while along the top is a line from the Koran that reads: ‘Your victory is from God.’
The house looked much the same, except that a sheaf of cream and red tulips had suddenly bloomed by the front door. DEAD BEAT
It took it some time to warm up and when it was ready the man on the ground would grab his pitchfork and toss a sheaf up to another man standing on top of the machine itself.
The "mell" is the last sheaf of corn left in the field when the harvest is gathered in. Yorkshire Dialect Poems (1673-1915) and traditional poems
He took a sheaf of eight-by-ten glossy color photographs and passed them over to Dr. Cornell. TROPIC OF NIGHT
The beheader is used in California, as it was before 1870, and in the prairie regions the sheaf-carrier has recently been introduced, holding the sheaves until enough are collected to make a shock. If Not Silver, What?
She pulled a sheaf of papers from her knapsack and shuffled through them.
She reached in again, head bent, two sheafs of her hair now actu-ally floating on the water, the stream prankishly tugging them in the direction it flowed. Wizard and Glass
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.
A lawyer walked in carrying a whole sheaf of papers.
Woman is the capsheaf of the abomination of desolation -- full of all deviltry. Narrative of Sojourner Truth; a Bondswoman of Olden Time, Emancipated by the New York Legislature in the Early Part of the Present Century; with a History of Her Labors and Correspondence Drawn from Her "Book of Life;" Also, a Memorial Chapter,
Egmont was more lenient to the foul practices which prevailed there, and took almost a childish pleasure in dining at the table of the Duchess, dressed, as were many of the younger nobles, in short camlet doublet with the wheat-sheaf buttons. The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1555-84)

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