... Each day was bringing a fresh sheaf of bad news... 
Vicente Blasco Ibanez Charlotte Brewster Jordan 「The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse」
...He was armed with a sheaf of short, broad-bladed stabbing spears, and was seated on a sort of throne entirely covered with an immense kaross of lions’ skin...
Harry Collingwood 「The Adventures of Dick Maitland」
...Coming to a ruralneighborhood, he would stop at some local hotel, and, armed with cleverpatter and a sheaf of automobile insurance documents, would make therounds of the region's better-class homes...
Albert Payson Terhune 「Further Adventures of Lad」
...I sat down on a sheaf of wheat and basked till dry in the warm sunshine...
Gordon Stables 「The Domestic Cat」
...Then she sat down on a sheaf of wheat and looked around her, wishingthat her father would come...
Lenore Elizabeth Mulets 「Stories of Birds」
...It is a sheaf of passages which has not the single head of asheaf of corn, but shoots its innumerable sprouts hither and thither,at all heights...
Jean Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles」
...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」
...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 some parts of Holstein the last sheaf is dressed inwoman’s clothes and called the Corn-mother...
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」
...Sometimes again the last sheaf is called the Grandmother, and isadorned with flowers, ribbons, and a woman’s apron...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...” In the neighbourhood of Magdeburg the men andwomen servants strive who shall get the last sheaf, called theGrandmother...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...The identification of the person withthe sheaf is made still clearer by the custom of wrapping up in thelast sheaf the person who cuts or binds it...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...Sometimes in Lithuania the last sheaf is not threshed,but is fashioned into female shape and carried to the barn of aneighbour who has not finished his threshing...
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」
...Thelast sheaf is reaped by the farmer’s wife, who carries itback to the house, where it is threshed and mixed with theRice-soul...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
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