Flakes

Examples

• And any one could see that he shook with fear, and that there broke out upon his lips curious white flakes, like thin snow. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• It was so dark now you could only see the flakes blowing past and the rigid dark of the pine trunks. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• For a week the Grand Army struggled through mud; then came sharp frosts, and then the first flakes of snow, and then snow and snow. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• By the time they reached the camp it was snowing and the flakes were dropping diagonally through the pines. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• It was a heavy, settled fall, I recollect, in great flakes; and it lay thick. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• The flakes were coming heavy and fast in the rain. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• We proceeded through the snow, which lay in masses impeding the way, while the descending flakes, driving against me with redoubled fury, blinded me. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The gay plumage, shorn from the crests, drifted upon the breeze like snow-flakes. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• To and fro he walked, while the flakes fell faster; and the wind, which at first had but moaned, pitifully howled. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Where the paint has yielded to age and exposure and is peeling off in flakes and patches, the effect is not happy. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Unlike the other two common methods of making salt, it forms tiny salt flakes instead of the usual cubes or lumps. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.

Edited by Fred