stocks

Example Sentences

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The saw-like sickles had only lately been put away, and the wheat stood in stooks of eight among the tall stubble of those tin** The Wait still itched.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

In the wheatfield the golden corn falls before the sharp knives of the reaper, and the sheaves are set in stooks ready for the carrying.

From The Sun's Babies by Howes, Edith

The corn was cut, and stood in stiff yellow stooks, and the shadows were very black.

From Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories by Ashe, Elizabeth

From the earliest moment that the dew would permit operations until the stooks stood eerie and indistinct in the thickening dusk the boys broadsided their two binders into the ranks of the standing grain.

From The Bail Jumper by Stead, Robert J. C.

Already he could see the red line of flame a mile away where it swept through the neighbour’s stooks.

From The Bail Jumper by Stead, Robert J. C.