siftings

A shovel-full of cinder-siftings is a most timely attention round the young shoots of such as are poking up their noses a little too early, and seem likely to get them frost-bitten.

Mary's Meadow; and Letters From a Little Garden 1886

Garbage pail can be loosely translated as the kitchen sink, or one could read the name to mean literal siftings from the garbage pail.

The Rules of Recipe Attraction Rozanne Gold 2012

Open any page of Kharms and off pour metal filings, siftings strew his pages and lines and words.

The Man from OBERIU strannikov 2012

Loosely translated as "siftings from the garbage pail," it has 13 ingredients that are simply put together.

The Rules of Recipe Attraction Rozanne Gold 2012

Ellen did not say that she had used up the last siftings of flour—enough for one small loaf.

The Dressmaker Posie Graeme-Evans 2010

Daily rations were limited to three hundred grams of black bread and pepper-pods, egg-fruit (an egg-shaped orange-yellow sweet fruit), rice-mill siftings, or cabbage, an inadequate diet upon which to survive.

Pursuit of an 'Unparalleled Opportunity': The American YMCA and Prisoner of War Diplomacy among the Central Power Nations during World War I 2008

Thus, persons suspected of crime go through three different stages, three siftings, before coming up for trial before the judges of the upper Court — the High Justice of the realm.

Scenes from a Courtesan's Life 2007

They are savoring the complex seasonings, the voluptuous stirrings and siftings, with an enjoyment formerly reserved for novels.

American Pie Johnson, Diane 1997

The few light, dry siftings that did produced little buildup on the frozen ground, except in hollows and depressions, and sometimes not even there.

The Plains of Passage Auel, Jean M. 1990

Earlier in the day, light siftings of snow had drifted down and melted in the open sunny spaces, but some had accumulated in the shady nooks, forecasting the possibility of a cold night, and heavier snows to come.

The Plains of Passage Auel, Jean M. 1990