"That air tew cents was fer the flour-sifter," inwardly mourned Angy, "an' it was wuth double an' tribble, fer it's been a good friend ter me fer nigh on ter eight year.

" To which Martin answered, "Theophilus Thistle, the thistle-sifter, sifted a sieve of unsifted thistles; and if Theophilusoh, I won't say any more!"

She now sweeps up the ashes, and deposits them in her cinder-pail, which is a japanned tin pail, with a wire-sifter inside, and a closely-fitting top.

" It has most unaccountably been assumed that this passage refers to Shakespeare;[E] and it is even so cited by Lord Campbell himself,to our surprise, when we remember his professional training and experience as a sifter of evidence.

And right in that same back yard with the coal sifter up stream and window screen down the stream, they began the culture of trout.

So Mars Walker tuk'n tied Dave up en gin 'im forty; en den he got some er dis yer wire clof w'at dey uses fer ter make sifters out'n, en tuk'n wrap' it roun' de ham en fasten it tergedder at de little een'.

253-5, 275, 436-8; etymologist, a bad, i. 186, n. 5; evidence, a sifter of, i. 406; v. 388; evil spirit, the, affects Johnson politically, v. 36, n. 3; exaggeration, hatred of: see EXAGGERATION; excellence described by Mrs. Piozzi, ii. 263, n. 6; executor, Porter's, i. 95, n. 3; Thrale's, iv.

The man tanned the buckskin, the woman was tailor and shoemaker, and made the deerskin sifters to be used instead of bolting-cloths.

We may, perhaps, yawn over the intermingled Latin and law of Arcangeli, in spite of the humour of parts of it, as well as over the vapid floweriness of his rival; but for all that, we are touched keenly by the irony of the methods by which the two professional truth-sifters darken counsel with words, and make skilful sport of life and fact.

Sift the flour with a sifter little by little over the mixture and fold it carefully in.

Sift one cup of flour three times, then put into sifter and shake lightly, fold into the cake.

What still remains, of coals, and cinders unconsumed, the dustman's perquisite, are measured first, "thence hurried back to fire:" the wood, the sifters take.

Now, I believe, every particle is accounted for; and any little article, in the shape of a bijou, is the perquisite of those pickers-up of unconsidered trifles, the sifters.

It was a dispute between a dustman and a sifter, as to which had the most rightful claim to a five-pound note, found in the ashes; and certainly nothing could be more impartially decided; for as their claims, or rather their non-claims, turned out to be equalthat is, in point of lawit was retained by the presiding magistrate in trust.

In the course of the inquiry, it appeared that the sifter had realized sufficient property to enable her to be proprietress of three houses.