Sifters

Sifters were men who stood beside the mining flumes-long wooden troughs with running water.

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Sifters_ may be made by pricking holes in an envelope.

How Two Boys Made Their Own Electrical Apparatus Containing Complete Directions for Making All Kinds of Simple Apparatus for the Study of Elementary Electricity

On leaving thefe ftraits the fix American veffels, keepmg in a line, coafted along the weftem fiiore of Lucepara; when this ifland was brought to bear north we fteered fouth by eaft and fouth by weft for the Two Sifters, and large of certain Shoals on our ftarboard fide.

Voyages and TRavels in All Parts of the World 1812

The two iflands to the ne of Matmai, Kvnachir and Zellany, and likewife the three ftill further to the ne, called the Three Sifters, are perfefliy in - elependent.

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In outward form prefenting to the fight That fam'd ParnafTian hill, on whofe fair brows The Nine Aonian Sifters wont repofe; -

The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical 1790

Corcelius, indeed, had all the Motives, that wife Mfh ever hold reafonable, to pufh him upon that Expedient: Though there were no inconfiderable ones to diffwade him from it; as a confcious Virtue, an eftabliflied Charafter, and an exalted Condition; a Daughter, a Wife, a Grandfon and Sifters; and amongft fo many Pledges of Felicity, not a few real Friends.

Tracts 1789

Near the fam'd Sifters, never durdafpire To found a verfc, or touch the tuneful lyfe;

A select collection of poems: with notes [by J. Nichols]. 1781

PRIOR'S PQEIVfS. ft#i The Tlp«? kind Sifters broke the chain,

The Works of the English Poets.: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical 1779

I think like our Father St. Fran - cis, pardon my fincerity, whofaid, ibai God has debarred us from having tjoivesy that we may he mfpired witb a defirz of being re - hgious; bat I am afraid tbe Devil bss given m Sifters to torment us.

Interesting Letters of Pope Clement XIV (Ganganelli): To which are Prefixed, Anecdotes of His Life 1777

Enemies in Mutual DifafFeftion i Contemporaries in theit being of the fame Age, or Time •, Fellow Students in purfu - iiig like Studies together; Bretluren and Sifters in being Sprung of the fame Parents, G?

An essay towards the improvement of reason; in the pursuit of learning and conduct of life 1707