Who Guards the Coast Guard?
He wheezed through the sieve in his throat, past pale creased lips. his shoulders fell suddenly, as though some ghostly weight he struggled to support vanished. tears welled up in his bright red, salted eyes.
Ghost of the Western Cretaceous Sea
One day shall i between my bare toes as if through a sieve those slow waves pour. salt breeze will smart my eye. the foam's cool touch my sorrows will efface, and i will understand the white gull's cry.
Gam Saan (The Golden Mountain)
After buying an overpriced pan, sieve, and pick-ax, he found that as a newcomer on the gold fields near san fransisco that he did not rank high on the pecking order.
Lonely Oak Chapter 126 - The Meadows
He passed a tree with branches so high it sieved the clouds, and yet in the bright sun it had naught a shadow. the walk was far too short, as many of the meadow's wonders had disappeared. they left behind only a hill.
City of Dreams
Any consistent payment was better than playing your luck with a pan, sieve, and a waterwheel in hopes of landing that elusive gold rock which had already broken the hearts of many californians.
A Thin Line - Part One: The Felon
There was a pause in conversation, as if the two dogs were waiting for the owl to leak like a sieve so early.
Friends In Low Places
Thought i'd let him drink booze to dull the pain, the idiot, he'd bleed like a sieve." "riiiight." jack shook his head as the sound of tearing flesh reached his ears. "anyway, got a message to relay to the rest of the old crew, if you don't mind."
Fathom's Phantoms, Ch 20.5: Cognition
Back up programs tried in vain to grab onto alvin's signature but none succeeded-- the plumber was trying to catch him in a sieve. "mmm... i should write a book of deep metaphors."
Star Blind
It was amateur to try and use the zero gravity to get an aerial advantage in the middle of a gunfight, you'd simply draw the ire of every enemy gun your way and die riddled like a sieve. "they're fuckin' funneling us."
Lord and Master (Goldeneye's backstory) - Part 1: Coalesce
And i had words now, a new language: i felt them seeping in, minds all around sieving their thoughts into my receptive, greedy consciousness. i could choose my name now.
California Soul (clean)
The days of prospecting are over for me but i was not a failure at it by any stretch of the imagination" she pointed to her poke, the prospector's bag bulging with many dozen nuggets of gold next to her pan, sieve, and pick-ax.
Ander - Chapter 7, Subchapter 48
She was getting shoved and jostled from side to side like a pebble in a prospector's sieve.