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Example sentences for "siftings"

Lexicographically close words:
siezed; sift; sifted; sifter; sifting; sifts; sig; sigh; sighe; sighed
  1. In siftings from sea-grape thicket on sandy soil (Rehn and Hebard, 1927).

  2. In siftings from high-altitude primeval forest (Rehn and Hebard, 1927).

  3. In siftings from under sea grapes, other shrubs, and low trees (Rehn and Hebard, 1927).

  4. Under decayed stalks of sugarcane and in siftings from mangrove swamps, Cuba.

  5. The second, B, C, is occupied with two successive siftings and the milling.

  6. When the fine siftings are afterwards thrown upon the top, they must be watered, to prevent their being blown away, and to keep them evenly spread over the whole surface of the light fuel.

  7. When the scoriae are viscid, the quantity of siftings must be diminished; but if thin, they must be increased.

  8. The wet marl, sand, or siftings applied to cracks in the hatches or doors of kilns to retain the heat during firing.

  9. This clamming or stopping is a mixture of sand, sieved dust, ground pitchers, or other infusible siftings held together with a very little waste glaze and water.

  10. And fourthly, careful inspection of the siftings of the straw disclosed living parasites, small mites, which when applied to the skin quickly produced the characteristic eruption.

  11. Siftings from the straw were applied to the arm, under all of which circumstances the rash quickly developed, showing conclusively the relation of the straw to the disease.

  12. Thirdly, siftings from the straw and mattresses which had been thoroughly disinfected failed to produce the rash.

  13. First, put in drainage--I use for this coarse sand--then the coarse siftings of the soil.

  14. It is strange that the siftings of three kingdoms, as the Rev.

  15. Perhaps it is because those siftings have run to such a low percentage of the whole New England population that they must suffer, along with the refuse of the mills--the Mills of the Gods--abounding in our city and its dependencies.

  16. True, the tatterdemalion frieze of basket bearers still wove its rhythmic way over the mounds to the siftings where Thatcher was presiding as was his wont, but in the native part of the encampment there appeared a sly stir and excitement.

  17. A man with a short, pointed red beard and an academic face beneath a pith helmet was stooping over the siftings from those baskets, intent upon the stream of sand through the wire screens.

  18. He was conducting his own siftings in high solitude, a lean, bronzed young man, with dark hair and eyes and, at the present moment, an unexhilarated expression.

  19. We may also conceive, that the continual siftings which the nucleus undergoes at each successive perihelion passage, have left but little of those lighter elements in comets whose mean distances are so small.

  20. These last may be considered the siftings of the smaller planets, and the first the refuse of the Saturnian system.


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