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Definition of Sifters
1. sifter [n] - See also: sifter
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sifters
Literary usage of Sifters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Life of Mrs. Godolphin by John Evelyn, Samuel Wilberforce (1848)
"... will give my sifters my mare of the Queen's Leafe, fifty pounds a year; ...
an hundred pounds more in rings for your five sifters, to remember me by. ..."
2. Memoirs of the Right Reverend Simon Wm. Gabriel Bruté: D. D., First Bishop by Simon William Gabriel Bruté de Rémur, James Roosevelt Bayley (1861)
"RIAL OF THE PRIEST AND THE THREE SISTERS OF LA CHAPELLE ST. AUBERT, DIOCESE OF
RENNES. " Mr. Raoul, and the three good sifters of La ..."
3. A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes by Robert Dodsley (1770)
"L E'TTER from SMYRNA to his sifters at CRUX-EASTON,. 1733. By the Same, . • THE
hero who to Smyrna bay From ..."
4. Report of the United States Entomological Commission by United States Entomological commission (1885)
"Although sifters may, not be recommended generally, it is necessary to notice
... With sifters there is also probably more danger of the laborer getting ..."
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