Screening

Examples

• My old notion of screening the girl, if I could, seemed to have come back on me again, at the eleventh hour. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The effect of screening the objects from the eye at short intervals is produced by looking with one eye through the openings at the image of the disc, reflected from a mirror. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• She changed her position slightly, screening her eyes with her lifted hand. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• If the cleaning of the grain and separating it from the chaff and dirt are not had in the threshing process, separate machines are employed for fanning and screening. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• His arms were resting on the table, and his brow was bowed down on them, the blue cloak being dragged forward and screening his face on each side. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Machines for Screening, Loading, and Weighing. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The fire warmed them; life and friendship yet blessed them; but Jessie lay cold, coffined, solitary--only the sod screening her from the storm. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• You are screening your stepfather. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• The rocks having thus been reduced to fine powder, the mass was ready for screening on its way to the magnetic separators. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Feed the chicks four or five times a day, at first on hard-boiled eggs, chopped fine, giving them also a little milk, fine screenings, and millet seed. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.

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