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We also explain how ideas from derived algebraic geometry and higher category theory can be used in order to construct a Chern character for these categorical sheaves, which is a categorified version of the Chern character for perfect complexes with values in cyclic homology.— CiteULike: Everyone's library
Now, that custom is entirely changed: the sheaves are all taken away from the field; and instead of the reapers leaving handfuls expressly for the gleaners, the farmer endeavours by raking to secure as much as possible of what they accidentally leave on the stubble.— Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 459 Volume 18, New Series, October 16, 1852
At harvest-time they hilariously wasted their scanty store of Indian corn by making an image with the sheaves, and wreathing it with the painted garlands of autumn foliage.— The Old Coast Road From Boston to Plymouth
They never enter into houses; are carried into ricks and barns with the sheaves, abound in harvest; and build their nests amidst the straws of the corn above the ground, and sometimes in thistles.— The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1
Adam watched his co-worker toil over the sheaves, and then took them from her and pitched them on the stack haphazard You shall not bother over it any more," he said, "not if we live on hominy all winter.— The Master-Knot of Human Fate

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