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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Sift
 
  Sifted fine as flour.
            —Charles Dickens		  1
  Sifted, drifted, like the sun of sands in wastes Arabian.
            —Andrew Lang		  2
  Sifted like great snowdrifts o’er the landscape.
            —Henry W. Longfellow		  3
  Sift you as wheat.
            —New Testament		  4
 
 
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