587 examples of flake in sentences

The snow fell over Paris with rigorous, relentless persistence; sometimes the wind made a sally and scattered it in flying vortices; sometimes there was a lull, and flake after flake descended out of the black night air, silent, circuitous, interminable.

The snow fell over Paris with rigorous, relentless persistence; sometimes the wind made a sally and scattered it in flying vortices; sometimes there was a lull, and flake after flake descended out of the black night air, silent, circuitous, interminable.

Beat up the pudding for 2 or 3 minutes; butter a pie-dish; put in a layer of bread crumbs, then the apple, and then another layer of bread crumbs; flake over these a few tiny pieces of butter, and bake for about 1/2 hour.

" Pearl went to the window and looked outalready there was a threat of snow in the whining wind, and as she watched, a stray flake struck the window in front of her.

Every flake seemed to fall on her heart.

Having now completed a sufficiency of the line, the bo'sun set one of the men to flake it down very carefully upon the rock beside the bow, whilst he himself tested it at all such parts as he thought in any way doubtful, and so, presently, all was ready.

Flake brazil nuts or pine-kernels in a nut mill, or chop very finely by hand.

Blanch the almonds and flake them in a nut mill.

"Poor Flake was half mad about you, Signora, in the stage-box to-night," said Sabina.

If Flake paints Marie as Lady Macbeth, he will give us neither her nor Lady Macbeth; but only the single point at which their two characters can coincide.

The frost-flake's icy silver Is dew at noon for thee.

Each flake of snow is pretty A spangle or a gem; But they melt away in dew-drops I can not treasure them.

Surely they have been settling, flake on flake, year after year, in Mrs. Talbot's linen-press, till at last there is quite a snowdrift of fair white linen for Jenny and Theophil to lie in.

Surely they have been settling, flake on flake, year after year, in Mrs. Talbot's linen-press, till at last there is quite a snowdrift of fair white linen for Jenny and Theophil to lie in.

In fact, her touch was like a flake of snow.

If he could only get the stone rough a bit, knocking off a flake or so in the right spot, it would give the lever a better hold.

Ay, sure enough, off goes a flake.

Flake in a nut-mill or pound quite smooth.

The usual amount of "law" having been conceded, the hounds were laid on, and went away, as Button said, like a fire-flake over a prairie.

Robert felt something damp upon his face, and he brushed away a melting flake of snow.

Beautifully candid, his laminae separate readily before the tranchant silver, and each flake, covered with a creamy curd, lies ready to receive the affusion of molten (not oiled) butter, which, with its floating oyster-islands, seems in impatient agitation for the moment of overflowing the alluring "white creature," as a modern poet styles it.

The searchlights stab and slash about the sky like tin swords in a stage duel; presently they pick up the bomb-birda glittering flake of tinseland the racket begins.

Through the long night until the silver break Of day the little gray feet know no rest, Through the lone night until the last snow-flake Has dropped from heaven upon the earth's white breast, The dusky, half-clad girls of tired feet Are trudging, thinly shod, from street to street.

SALMON AND BROWN BREAD SANDWICHES Flake one cup salmon and rub it to a paste.

Then the dancing broke, I found, though I still played on, and it was some frolicsome game of forfeits, and Angus was chasing Effie, and with her light step and her flying laugh it was like the wind following a rose-flake.

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