These thoughts were driven through her mind like the snowflakes in a storm.

"Here are your snowflakes on stems, mamma," she continued, dropping anemones over her mother's hands, one by one;"that is what Mr. Raleigh calls them.

It was a happy family reunion, and a meet harbinger of the peaceful days in store for our heroinedays which came and went so fast, until winter melted into spring, and the spring budded into blushing summer, and the summer faded into the golden autumn, and the autumn floated with feathery snowflakes into the chilly winter and December came again, bringing another meeting of the Markhams.

She sat there staring into space and seeing the San Francisco Chronicle and Examiner, hawked by newsboys, on stands, thrust under doors, going like spreading snowflakes of a big storm into post-offices, to racing trains, all over the land.

Have you ever seen snowflakes through a microscope?

Barry Conant and his lieutenants had disappeared like snowflakes at the opening of the door of the firebox of a locomotive speeding through the storm.

[Enter SNOWFLAKE with a pail of water.

From their headquarters in Cooper Institute, New York city, they sent out the appeals to the President, Congress, and the people at large; tracts and forms of petition, franked by members of Congress, were scattered like snowflakes from Maine to Texas.