40 examples of flaky in sentences

Let it boil about one hour, or till you discover the surface of the liquor to become flaky, and the wort broken; then take it from the copper and strain it into the coolers.

" Lee Chang's wish was fulfilled when he placed the flaky tart in Betty's hands, and he took a candy or two (which he privately considered rather poor stuff) and watched the girl no longer.

Often as she went about the house or stood in the sunny kitchen rolling out her flaky pie-crust, she pondered over ways and means.

Boil a small portion of the albumen solution in a test tube, adding drop by drop dilute acetic acid (two per cent) until a flaky coagulum of insoluble albumen separates.

Yet in the frequent pauses of the light, When fell the drizzling thaw, or flaky snow; Or when the heaped-up ocean of still foam Reposed upon the tranced earth, breathing low; His soul was like a frozen lake beneath The clear blue heaven, reflecting it so dim That he could scarce believe there was a heaven; And feared that beauty might be but a toy Invented by himself in happier moods.

Upon the neck, between the wings, Of a white, sailing swan, A flaky bed of shelterings There you will find the one.

But the biscuits being soft and flaky can be enjoyed by those for whom the twice-baked bread would be too hard.

Adj. deranged &c v.; syncretic, syncretistic^; mussy, messy; flaky; random, unordered [U.S.].

Adj. lamellar, lamellated^, lamelliform^, layered; laminated, laminiferous^; micaceous^; schistose, schistous^; scaly, filmy, membranous, pellicular, flaky, squamous [Anat.]; foliated, foliaceous^; stratified, stratiform; tabular, discoid; spathic^, spathose^. trilamellar^. graphitic^. 205.

But Di doesn't trouble herself with such thoughtsshe only cuts out saucy mottoes from the flaky white paste to lay on the red cranberry tarts, of which she makes a special one for each cousin.

Sydney Smith having one day received an invitation from him to dine at Fishmongers' Hall, sent the following reply: 'Much do I love The monsters of the deep to eat; To see the rosy salmon lying, By smelts encircled, born for frying; And from the china boat to pour On flaky cod the flavoured shower.

In a charter of Robert le Bouillon, Bishop of Amiens, in 1311, mention is made of a cake composed of puff flaky paste; these cakes, however, are less ancient than the firm pastry called bean cake, or king's cake, which, from the earliest days of monarchy, appeared on all the tables, not only at the feast of the Epiphany, but also on every festive occasion.

There was fried chicken, as it is fried only in the South, hominy boiled to the consistency where it could be eaten with a fork, and biscuits so light and flaky that a fellow with any appetite at all would have no difficulty in disposing of eight or ten.

By the time we had finished our flaky fare and sipped our chocolate from the Magdalena, Night announced herself,Night, a jealous, dark lady, eclipsed and made invisible all her rivals, that she might solely possess us.

There were biscuits that held all the flaky charm of a snowball.

Sunset, as seen from that place, presented most generally, low-lying, flaky clouds, of the softest serenity, "like," said S., "the Buddhist tracts.

The wind blew strong from the west and from the east; the sky was often darkly overcast; we had snowstorms, flaky snow, and even light rain.

They are covered with scales, each scale consisting of a number of little flaky ice sheets superimposed, and all 'dipping' at the same angle.

Now let the shrivelling flame at me be driven, Let him, with flaky snowstorms and the crash Of subterraneous thunders, into ruins And wild confusion hurl and mingle all:

These are the real articlejust the chicken meat with a delicious gravy covering it, baked in the most flaky crust you can imagine.

Picking and lifting lightly occasionally with a fork will make it more flaky and dry.

If preferred, the potatoes may be rubbed through a hot sieve into a hot plate, or mashed with a potato beetle, but they are less light and flaky when mashed with a beetle.

"I made sure there was a beautiful stone, but it is all solidonly a flaky sort of jellyit's no use at all!"

I thought of that when one by one the stars melted and the moon became a breath, and up over the wide grayness crept color and radiance and the sun himself, the sky soaring higher and higher, like a great thin bubble of flaky hues,and, all about, nothing but the everlasting wash of waters broke the sacred hush.

Her biscuits were just as light and flaky as ever.

40 examples of  flaky  in sentences