Night sank: like flakesof silver fire The stars in one great shower came down; Shrill blew the wind; and shrill the wire Rang out from Hythe to Romney town.
The driven snow melted on my tongue as I gasped, and I felt the flakes melt in my eyes; but we followed the road by instinct, for where the hedges should have been only a black blur showed.
It snowed still more the next day, a heavy snow mingled with rain; great wet flakes that fell to earth and were turned to mud.
Small loose tufts came away, flakesthat got between my fingers, and scattered over the pillow.
I made the snow-flakes whirl, and the snow lay like a great lake high around the ship, and drifted over it.
The Ruler of the Year stood there with locks white as snow, but he knew not it was his hair that gleamed so white--he thought snow-flakes were falling from the clouds; and soon a thin covering of snow was spread over the fields.
No fish requires more care in helping, for when properly boiled the flakes easily fall asunder, and require a neat hand to prevent the dish looking untidy.
In great, green flakes the hay is rolled off, and distributed about in small heaps upon the unspotted snow.
The clouds were burdened with snow; and as the first flakes commenced to eddy down, he set out, trap and broom in hand, already counting over in imagination the silver quarters he would receive for his first fox-skin.
The flakes and small pieces that become detached from the large sheets are thrown into a bin where the completed small work is placed to allow slow and even cooling while protected by the asbestos.
Sheet asbestos and asbestos fibre inflakes are used to cover parts of the work while preparing them for welding and during the operation itself.
For small cutting implements flint was not the only substance used by these lake-dwellers, as there are 36 fine flakes of obsidian (No.
The occurrence of flint implements and flakesin great numbers on the site of a drained lake between Sandhurst and Frimley, described by Captain C.
Along with each skeleton were found 40 flakes of the tusks of the wild boar, pierced at each extremity.
One flake was a good example of a knife, and showed evidence of having been used; three otherflakes were secondarily chipped and converted into neat scrapers and a saw (No.
From the same station there are in the Museum of Lausanne some 40 stone celts, a few flint flakes and knives, and a spindle-whorl.
Farther east was a large patch of winking, yellow lights, giving to his eye the same effect as flakes of gunpowder dropped upon a heated stove: it was the bursting of the British shells.
A few belatedflakes of snow mingled with the dust that eddied about in little whirlpools of wind.
Thin flakes of the purest enamel, the size of a guinea and irregularly shaded, have been found in the ravines near Natchez.
Lamoureux brushed some of the white flakes off his shoulders.
The flakes had just begun to fall, large and feathery, and Lamoureux himself soon had a powdered look.
The snow was coming down in enormous flakes two inches across, and Carvalho, staring after the ship, was shivering and cursing.
The baked dry sand crackled into innumerable tiny flakes under his feet.
The flakes were so thick now that the meadow on the other side of the road and the mountain beyond were blurred and almost blotted out; there was a gray pallor on her face as if the shadow of the storm had fallen on it.
It was snowing steadily now; he could hear the faint patter of small, hard flakes on the dry oak leaves over his head.
But instead of "facing it," he began to watch the first sparse and fitful beginnings of snow--hesitant flakes that sauntered down to rest for a crystal moment on his coat sleeve.
On the sand of the circle of the blasphemers-- "Fell slowly wafting down Dilated flakes of fire, as flakes of snow On Alpine summit, when the wind is hushed.
On every side as the observer turned his eyes might he behold a continual succession of fresh flakes falling into his sight, and twinkling like stars as they turned their sides towards the sun.
Neither before nor after was any such fall observed; but on this day the flakes hung in the trees and hedges so thick, that a diligent person sent out might have gathered baskets full.
THE QUEER ONE 107 I JIM AND BOB Bob McCartney was spreading cod on the flakesand I was watching him and estimating the chances of better weather.
We begun right here in this house and we started right in here the first night and we went to work on the flakes the next morning.
In the water-soaked atmosphere the flakes were merged together and the tiny houses of the fishers were almost joined into one long rambling house.
There is the road to Bowring Park that gives one the quiet of woods there, with many flowers and a little, singing brook; but for one who loves the sea and the fishers, the walk that goes along the flakes must ever be the favorite.
Surfaces which are to be whitewashed should be well brushed to remove dust and loose flakesof old whitewash.
Whitewash is often decried because it rubs off upon things which touch it and also because flakes of it fall upon the floor and into uncovered receptacles.
He was white and cold, with his head fallen back, and his hair matted with flakes of snow.
It began to snow, and the white flakes on his gold braid clouded his soul at first, but when he remembered that porters had to work in all weathers, he wagged his sturdy head and strode on.
In an instant more a whirling mass of moist snow flakeswas falling about her, obscuring everything but their own fantastic, falling selves.
The lights had been turned on in the little tea house and in contrast to their radiant cheer and that of the dancing flames in the fireplace, the outside world with its deep gray swirl of snow flakes looked very black and chill.
Oh," she murmured, the tears beginning to run down her cheeks to mingle with the wet snow flakes melting there.
The snow began to fall slowly; a few flakes appeared.
These spots, which are flakes of snow, slip, wander, and flow.
On this ground of fire the snow-flakes showed black--they might have been compared to dark butterflies flying about in a furnace--then all was extinguished.
In the polar wind, which is electrical, the flakes turn suddenly into hailstones, and the air becomes filled with projectiles; the water crackles, shot with grape.
The flakes of snow falling on him had sprinkled him with white tears, and made him visible on the background of darkness.
None knew what had become of it; flakes replaced the hailstones, the snow began to fall slowly.
Clarke, to give some idea of the infinite numbers of these animals, compares them to a flight of snow when the flakes are carried obliquely by the wind.
In Lapland their numbers are so prodigious as to be compared to a flight of snow when the flakes fall thickest, or to the dust of the earth.
Then a wind that seemed sharp as steel drove stingingflakes of snow into his face.
The man wore an old skin coat spattered with flakes of mire, and his long boots were covered with clots of the same material.
Despite the flakes of sunlight falling and the gold-blue peace by which They were surrounded.
The flakesbrushed against his cheeks like live things.
No natural Gothic arch compares, for a moment, with that formed by two American elms, where their lofty jets of foliage shoot across each other's ascending curves, to intermingle their showery flakes of green.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "flakes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
