sheaf

• This was REPORT OF AGENTS ON SAVAGE, DOC Clipped to the sheaf was a fingerprint card bearing Doc's fingerprints and data on his bodily measurements Straightening out his face, Monk pretended no interest in anything much until they were outside. —  122 - The King of Terror
• I do not know the meaning of the cries, but the whole ceremony is undoubtedly a dedication of the corn to the Corn-Spirit, and the little sheaf which is carried home and hung up is a rough image of the Corn-Maiden, like those plaited straw figures of Demeter and Persephone the Greek husbandmen used to make, and which the peasants of Sicily make still. —  Lynton and Lynmouth A Pageant of Cliff ; Moorland
• Storage for grain in the sheaf, and granaries, will require its room; while a stock farm requires a barn with extensive hay storage, and stables for its cattle, horses, and sheep, in all climates not admitting such stock to live through the winter in the field, like the great grazing states west of the Alleghanies. —  Rural Architecture Being a Complete Description of Farm Houses, Cottages, and Out Buildings
• He extracted a fifty-dollar certificate from the sheaf, and handed it over I'll take a receipt, but you needn't mention this to Mr. Graham just now No, certainly not." —  The Fortune Hunter
• His moustache and beard are of the colour of a corn sheaf, and his blue eyes shining over them remind me of summer. —  Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith

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