..." He recommended to the people to "arm themselves withhatchets, and especially with three-pronged forks, as the French werenot heavier than a sheaf of wheat... 
George Grote 「The Two Great Retreats of History」
... raising his sheaf of assagais in his right hand by way of salute...
Harry Collingwood 「The Adventures of Dick Maitland」
...The brother came drunk, and was taking offa large sheaf of arrows, when we scolded and prevented him...
David Livingstone 「The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume II (of 2), 1869-1873」
...Wheat-bran orshorts, and oat-meal or flaxseed ground, are both good forailing lambs and sheep; as are also ripe oats or wheat, fed inthe sheaf, with well cured, sweet hay, and plenty of salt...
Richard L. Allen 「Domestic Animals」
...This is done by tying a threshed-out sheaf of corn into a roughsemblance of a head and body, while the arms are simulated by abroomstick thrust through it horizontally...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...When the harvesters have nearly finished their task and only asmall corner of the field remains to be reaped, the owner takes ahandful of wheat tied up in a sheaf...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...In the Hanoverian districtof Hadeln the reapers stand round the last sheaf and beat it withsticks in order to drive the Corn-mother out of it...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...In the districtof Bruck in Styria the last sheaf, called the Corn-mother, is madeup into the shape of a woman by the oldest married woman in thevillage, of an age from fifty to fifty-five years...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...In France, also, in the neighbourhood of Auxerre, thelast sheaf goes by the name of the Mother of the Wheat, Mother ofthe Barley, Mother of the Rye, or Mother of the Oats...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...At Weiden, in Bavaria, it is thecutter, not the binder, of the last sheaf who is tied up in it...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...In Lithuania the name for the last sheaf is Boba (Old Woman),answering to the Polish name Baba...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...The name Queen, as applied to the last sheaf, hasits analogies in Central and Northern Europe...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...Something of the same tender care which is thusbestowed on the newly-born Rice-child is naturally extended also toits parent, the sheaf from whose body it was taken...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...The farmer then takes the Rice-soul and its basket anddeposits it, together with the product of the last sheaf, in thebig circular rice-bin used by the Malays...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
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