Fine snow was sifting into the old camp at all the cracks and crevices.
The wind was still roaring fearfully, and the fine snow sifting down through the roof on our faces.
When any mistake occurred, which was very seldom, it was obliterated by sifting the ground color over it.
When sifting is had recourse to, the fibrous matter should be rubbed through the meshes of the sieve along with the earthy particles.
For him the present condition of the people contained no germ or pledge of future amendment, and he describes the impending judgment, not as a sifting process (Amos ix.
Not a blink of fire was on the hearth, and long white lines across the floor showed him where the snow had been sifting in through the holes that did duty as windows.
Snow was sifting in underneath the door, too, and lying along the floor like a stripe of light.
Miss Ophelia lifted out the sifting papers of sweet herbs.
The broken coat of the seed of wheat, rye, or other cereal grain, separated from the flour or meal by sifting or bolting; the coarse, chaffy part of ground grain.
A howling night followed; the wind banked the snow against every obstacle, or filled the depressions, even sifting through every crack and crevice in the dug-out.
The light advanced slowly, a sifting frost filled the air, obscuring the valley, and not until the slope to the south was reached was the situation known.
This sifting of the soil is aided, as has already been remarked, by burrowing animals of many kinds, especially by ants.
In his thought the Christ was Judge, the great Refiner, sifting the base from the pure, and casting it into some Gehenna of burnings.
St. John speaks of one sifting in Galilee when "many of His disciples went back, and walked no more with Him" (vi.
We stopped repeatedly to satiate our eyes, long unused to such telescopic vision, on the circling prospect, and to inhale the larger air that came sifting through those giant pines.
The light had, by this time, melted to a mere faint grayness sifting like mist through the many oblong panes of several large windows.
But the sifting will not be satisfactory, if the materials subjected to it have not been largely and laboriously collected; and the charge against Hume is, that he applied it to imperfect data.
Add two and one-half cupfuls flour measured after sifting with two heaping teaspoonfuls of baking powder.
Add the yolks of nine eggs beaten light and one pound flour measured after sifting and then sifted again with a teaspoonful and a half of baking powder.
Already a gray light wassifting into the hollow of the sky.
Polly delivered the clothes and mentioned the "sifting meeting.
Well it's doing better than it did after the other 'sifting meeting.
The next day Neal Grafton reported the proceedings of the church to Jiles Brennen, and it took Jiles just six months to laugh "sifting meetings" out of the town and the community.
I know the sifting oakleaves still Upon a twilit sky, I hear the fernowl on the hill Go wheeling by.
In sifting vanity From the right honour, and building from ambition, You have a vision constant as the tides, But not in this.
Outside the snow was flying in a sifting wind from the north-west.
But her soul, I knew, was as pure as the snow siftingacross the white prairies outside.
The morning was grey, with a scattered sifting of small snowflakes, but the nip to the air was not nearly so uncomfortable as it seemed when contemplated from under the warm blankets.
Christmas day dawned bright and cold, with a whip of north-west wind and a skiff of loose snow sifting across the frozen prairies.
Meanwhile the queen, now bent upon sifting this matter to the bottom, had written to require the Scottish regent to inform her of the share which he had taken in the intrigue, and whatever else he knew respecting it.
And that this juridical and canonical sifting of poor ministers was not to edify and reform.
Jeff heard a dapper collie-handler in a linen duster say in guarded tones to a woman who was sifting talcum powder into her gold-and-white collie pup's fluffy coat.
Dusk was sifting down the valley from beyond the mountain wall that afternoon, when Trask Frayne turned once more into the gateway leading to his farm.
But if they knew that they would be subjected to a siftingexamination on oath, on the arrival of the commissioner, they might possibly prefer finding the letter, in which case there would be no more about it.
