Little fairy snow-flakes Dancing in the flue; Old Mr. Santa Claus, What is keeping you?

Clear the flead free from skin, and slice it into thin flakes; rub it into the flour, add the salt, and work the whole into a smooth paste, with the above proportion of water; fold the paste over two or three times, beat it well with the rolling-pin, roll it out, and it will be ready for use.

each one of these tiny flakes is needed to make a symmetrical figure.

The light flakes of snow spun from the iron skates, and I was some distance from my pursuers, when their fierce howl told me I was their fugitive.

It came down steadily in thick, heavy flakes.

Granose is wheat in the form of crisp, delicate flakes, thoroughly cooked and so rendered highly digestible.

The greater portion of the snow deposited around the lofty summits of the range falls in small crisp flakes and broken crystals, or, when accompanied by strong winds and low temperature, the crystals, instead of being locked together in their fall to form tufted flakes, are beaten and broken into meal and fine dust.

The clouds had hung low and heavy all day, but after sundown a driving wind carrying stray flakes of snow began to whistle around the stacks.

Now his facial lines appeared noticeably deep, dark like scars, and curious little flakes of iniquitous fire danced in his sunken eyes.

Nervously, almost jerkily, Landor filled the brier bowl and pressed the brown flakes tight with his little finger.

If the Bard was weather-wise, who made The grand old ballad of Sir Patrick Spence, This night, so tranquil now, will not go hence Unroused by winds, that ply a busier trade Than those which mould yon cloud in lazy flakes, 5 Or the dull sobbing draft, that moans and rakes Upon the strings of this Aeolian lute, Which better far were mute.

Towards twilight it grew warmer and began to snow, great wet flakes.

So all night long the storm rolled on: The morning broke without a sun; In tiny spherule traced with lines Of Nature's geometric signs, In starry flake and pellicle, All day the hoary meteor fell;

[Illustration: %Sutter's mill%] As soon as he had reached the fort and found Mr. Sutter, the two locked themselves in a room and examined the yellow flakes Marshall had brought.

The roof, though moveable through all its length As the wind sways it, has yet well sufficed, And intercepting in their silent fall The frequent flakes, has kept a path for me.

Some are mere flakes of flint, apparently used for knives or arrow-heads; some are pointed and with hollowed bases, as if for spear-heads, varying from four to nine inches in length; some are almond-shaped, with a cutting edge, from two to nine inches in length.

" She obeyed, and almost cried out to see them take fire in mid-air and float away in ashy flakes.

The sky was inky and a few wandering flakes of the now rapidly advancing storm came whirling in, biting my cheeks and stinging my forehead.

Those innumerable white flakes, driven horizontally as far as the foot of the mountain, appeared like snow issuing from the ocean, which was now confounded with the sky.

and he pointed to some small, almost invisible flakes of a whitish substance scattered here and there over his pillow.

The isolated snow-flakes turned avalanche.

The sleety blasts of a cold afternoon turned to great, moist flakes by dark, eddying thick out of a windless night.

There was the red light gleaming faintly through the moonlit flakes of snow.

"Let us go!" Once more they got to their feet, and set out to south-westward, over a scorching plain of crumbling, nitrous mud-flakes.

The slight clouds, from which an occasional flake had fallen, cleared away at sunset, and they had an excellent view as far as the eye could reach.