1 The flake of snow grew larger and larger; and at last it was like a young lady, dressed in the finest white gauze, made of a million little flakes like stars.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContext Highlight In THE SNOW QUEEN 2 But I know that as I worked at it, every flake and film of colour seemed to me to reveal my secret.
3 He laughed and applied himself hungrily to the cold corn pone and cold turnip greens on which congealed grease was thick in white flakes.
4 Behind walls of corded wood in back yards their sawbucks stood in depressions scattered with canary-yellow flakes of sawdust.
5 The whole air suddenly crystallized into large damp flakes.
6 In a swirl of flakes which scratched at their eyes like a maniac darkness, he unbuckled the harness.
7 The moon-tipped flakes kicked up by the horses settled over the revelers and dripped down their necks, but they laughed, yelped, beat their leather mittens against their chests.
8 Big white flakes were whirling over everything and disappearing in the red grass.
9 There were three or four inches of fresh snow on the ground, and the flakes were falling thick and fast.
10 They compared her to flakes of snow; as pure, as white, as brilliant, and as liable to melt in the fierce heats of summer, or congeal in the frosts of winter.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 33 11 One winter's day, when the flakes of snow were flying about, he spread the skirts of his blue coat, and caught the snow as it fell.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContext Highlight In THE SNOW QUEEN 12 The flakes ran along the ground, and the nearer they came the larger they grew.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContext Highlight In THE SNOW QUEEN 13 The flakes of snow covered her long fair hair, which fell in beautiful curls around her neck; but of that, of course, she never once now thought.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContext Highlight In THE LITTLE MATCH GIRL 14 It was the middle of winter, when the broad flakes of snow were falling around, that the queen of a country many thousand miles off sat working at her window.
15 As he struck the wall, pieces of stucco similar to that used in the ground work of arabesques broke off, and fell to the ground in flakes, exposing a large white stone.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 24. The Secret Cave.