1 It was, of course, not a thing even to be talked of lightly; it was a thing they would have to sift to the bottom.
2 Satan desires to have ye, and sift ye as wheat.
3 And she was sent into the kitchen, and made to fetch wood and water, to blow the fire, pluck the poultry, pick the herbs, sift the ashes, and do all the dirty work.
4 The songs are indeed the siftings of centuries; the music is far more ancient than the words, and in it we can trace here and there signs of development.
5 The meal sifted out and made a little track all the way to the lake.
6 There was freckled places on the ground where the light sifted down through the leaves, and the freckled places swapped about a little, showing there was a little breeze up there.
7 Clifford had had it newly gravelled with sifted gravel from the pit-bank.
8 It always pleased Connie, this underfoot of sifted, bright pink.
9 She visioned the fire-box: flames turned to lemon and metallic gold as the coal-dust sifted over them; thin twisty flutters of purple, ghost flames which gave no light, slipping up between the dark banked coals.
10 The three men left the bar and the crowd sifted through the doors in to the laneway.
11 This was because all who began to grow depressed or who lost strength were sifted out of the army day by day.
12 Snow was sifting over the ridge of the Howland house like sprays of water from a hose.
13 The troops, sifting through the forest, were sullen.
14 Miss Ophelia lifted out the sifting papers of sweet herbs.