Sentence:  The movements of the other women were more or less similar to Tess's, the whole bevy of them drawing together like dancers in a <WSD>quadrille</WSD> at the completion of a sheaf by each, every one placing her sheaf on end against those of the rest, till a shock, or 'stitch' as it was here called, of ten or a dozen was formed. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A dance originating in the mid-1700s with four couples forming a square, rather much like the modern square dance.