And yet, whenever the sieving current of pedestrians brought momentarily face to face with him a girl or woman, apparently civilized and in the mode, who obviously had never seen him before and seemed not to care if it should be her fate never to repeat the experience, Talbot Potter had a certain desire.
"Harlequin and Columbine"
Booth Tarkington
Returning to the variations which afford the material for the sieving-action of natural selection, we may distinguish two main kinds.
"Darwin and Modern Science"
A.C. Seward and Others
She beats having the lawyers sieving all the justice out of it.
"Red Saunders' Pets and Other Critters"
Henry Wallace Phillips