Then rub through a sieve, or not, as preferred.

Take five pints of boiling water and one quart of brandy, add to it the juice of four lemons or oranges, and about six ounces of loaf sugar; when you have mixed it together strain it thro' a hair sieve or cloth, and put into your bowl the peel of a lemon or orange.

Simmer gently for one hour or more, pass through a sieve and return to saucepan.

Drain the bunches by laying on a sieve, and when partly dry dip again into the boiled syrup.

The upper classes are charmed with it, no doubt, for they owe their existence to it,but it makes a Danaïd's sieve of the human race, and its age-long effort, since all its courage, its virtues, and its labours, are spent in learning how to die....

Presently the inspector raised the sieve from the water and stooped over it more closely to examine its contents.

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

" The plain-clothes man proceeded at once to act on my suggestion, taking the sieve with him to save time.

I was set to picking berries to replenish the family larder; but this soon became monotonous, and I appropriated the old grain-sieve, placing it beside the bushes, and pounding the huckleberries into it with a stick; the result was a heterogeneous conglomeration of worms, leaves, bugs, and crushed berries; but I succeeded in eliminating the refuse by throwing the whole mass into a tub of water, and skimming off the risings.

I said to them, "Why don't you use a sieve?

One day an old woman, who had filled her pail, wanted to fill her sieve also with its milk, but this so enraged the cow that it broke away, and wandered to Dunsmore, where it was killed.

At length the officer stood up, and turning to me with a genial but foxy smile, held out the sieve for my inspection.