(1) He waved a sheaf of papers in the air

(2) She pulled a sheaf of papers from her knapsack and shuffled through them.

(3) 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.

(4) 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.

(5) 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.

(6) 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 u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu2510Il'ia's beardu251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu00fb.

(7) Secreted elsewhere is a sheaf of white writing paper.

(8) 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.

(9) 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.

(10) 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.

(11) 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.

(12) 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.

(13) 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.

(14) At the very outset, before the grain was harvested, one sheaf of barley would be cut and waved before the Lord.

(15) Upon making a decision the Emperor would have his servants place a sheaf of paper either over or under the rock.

(16) He waved at a chair and handed me a sheaf of typed paper and I started reading, rocking the stroller with my foot.

(17) The average load lifted was two sheaves at once.

(18) 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.

(19) Although a machine designed to cut grain and bind sheaves with wire was patented in 1856, farmers disliked wire, in part because they could not easily dispose of it at threshing time.

(20) I'd rather believe my whisky came from barley sheaves standing in stooks in glens of tranquillity than admit the importance of the giant combine harvesters rolling across the Ukrainian plains.