Sentence examples for sheaves from inspiring English sources

In battered brown folders, sheaves of letters urge Edward Heath's government to take action against Pinochet – letters from an elderly couple in Leicester, "an appalled family" from London, from academics, students, Labour party branches and the "Bath Women's Liberation Front".

And the villagers were bemused to see city folk trying to twist rice into sheaves as if they were 18th-century peasants.

He describes, for example, a harvest with labourers stacking sheaves as miners pass by to and from shifts: "The land falls quiet, the day bending again to the crops, until darkness falls, when at the late shift-change time, new columns of men come and go under the red, low-hanging harvest moons".

If his dream was to live in the woods, with a fireplace and a typewriter and sheaves of notes hooked on the wall, almost like a deaf-mute in his dealings with the world, that was his affair.He was not just away in Cornish, he was also above.

Activists bustle backwards and forwards brandishing sheaves of paper.

In the sheaves of documents, there was something for everybody to object to: lines on territories under occupation that annoyed the Israelis, on population control that displeased the Vatican, on energy that irritated Saudi Arabia.The planet will not be "saved", any more than it was after the last grand UN conference on the environment, in Stockholm 20 years ago.

Gibson has sued to recover it.Guitarists now worry that every time they cross a state border with their instrument, they will have to carry sheaves of documents proving that every part of it was legally sourced.

With one person riding the horse that pulled the reaper, and another raking the cut stalks off the back, the machines could harvest as much grain in a day as a dozen men breaking their backs with reaping hooks.Mechanical reapers became even more efficient when adapted to bale the stalks into sheaves, too.

Intellectual Ventures, as well as generating its own ideas, buys sheaves of patents from others.

It has sheaves of glass which open and close automatically, depending on the intensity and angle of the sun, to provide sunlight while preventing the building from overheating.

Indeed, as part of the "six-party process" meant to wean North Korea from its nuclear ambitions, Mr Bush had promised it would happen as soon as Mr Kim provided full details of his nuclear programmes and consented to a proper means of verifying that they were indeed being dismantled.In June North Korea handed over sheaves of documents.