... The Pathan laughed and came back to gather him like a sheaf of corn...
Talbot Mundy 「King--of the Khyber Rifles」
...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 eight brown spikes...
J. Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Life of the Fly」
... I will avoid tedious repetition and content myself with adding to my old sheaf of proofs a few facts which have not yet been related...
J. Henri Fabre 「More Hunting Wasps」
...I have known gray squirrels to go many hundredyards in winter across fields to a barn that containedgrain in the sheaf...
John Burroughs 「Ways of Nature」
...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」
...Amongst the Slavs also the last sheaf is known as the Rye-mother,the Wheat-mother, the Oats-mother, the Barley-mother, and so on,according to the crop...
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 theneighbourhood of Belfast the last sheaf sometimes goes by the nameof the Granny...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...” The woman who binds the last sheaf issometimes herself called the Old Woman, and it is said that shewill be married in the next year...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...In Silesia thelast sheaf is called the Old Woman or the Old Man and is the themeof many jests; it is made unusually large and is sometimes weightedwith a stone...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...The last sheaf, designated as the Old Woman, is oftendistinguished from the other sheaves by its size and weight...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...Sometimes the harvesters call out to the woman who binds thelast sheaf, “She has the Baba,” or “She is theBaba...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...Thus encased in the sheaf, she iscarried on the last harvest-waggon to the house, where she isdrenched with water by the whole family...
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」
...At last a cry is raised that the child is born; whereuponthe boy who is tied up in the sheaf whimpers and squalls like aninfant...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...” The male sheaf is wound about with thread so that noneof the leaves are visible, whereas the female sheaf has its leavesbent over and tied so as to resemble the roll of a woman’shair...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
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