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- In the bank-safe was half a peck of surface-gold--gold dust, grain gold; rich; pure in fact, and pleasant to sift through one's fingers; and would be pleasanter if it would stick. [5]
- From the lodge to the house, a full mile, branches had been pruned to let the sunshine sift through in splotches, but the wild nature of the place had been skilfully retained. [9]
- Is it nothing to show a disposition to sift things and bring people to a strict account? [5]
- This at least the war did: it served as a sieve to sift the people, and it served as the solvent of many a life-problem. [11]
- This would sift out the persons fit for such a contest. [4]
- Catherine went to Mass, and after an eternity, the grey December light began to sift through the shutters, and human endurance had reached its limit. [9]
- I wish you had left me to my fate, and that we had shared the lot of our parents, for what threatens us here is more frightful than having to sift gold-dust in the scorching sun, or to crush quartz in mortars. [10]
- Then a little faint breeze struck us, and then it come harder, and grains of sand begun to sift against our faces and sting like fire, and Tom sung out: "It's a sand-storm--turn your backs to it! [5]
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