Mary," she suddenly spoke aloud, addressing the Patient Aunt, who was following the trail too, picking up the siftings from the other's apron-"Mary, did you kiss him?
"The Very Small Person"
Annie Hamilton Donnell
It is first threshed; then beaten in the mortar to separate the husk; then, by different siftings, it is separated into three qualities.
"Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson"
Thomas Jefferson
The songs are indeed the siftings of centuries; the music is far more ancient than the words, and in it we can trace here and there signs of development.
"The Souls of Black Folk"
W. E. B. Du Bois