...It was badly built, and must have leaked like a sieve in astorm... 
John Buchan 「Mr. Standfast」
...In the morning I looked and lo! the drilling had let in rain like a sieve, and every yard of cloth was wet...
Henry M. Stanley 「How I Found Livingstone」
...Plough a sandy desert, beat the water of the rivers, pass type through a sieve,—you will get neither wheat, nor fish, nor books...
P. J. Proudhon 「What is Property?」
...As closely as the difficulties of the operation willallow, I have estimated the eggs of a single female, upon passing theearth through a sieve, at five or six hundred...
J. H. Fabre Bernard Miall 「Social Life in the Insect World」
...Even so, many a time, the mostelementary sieve, handled with a little logic, is enough to winnow theconfused mass of affirmations and to release the good grain of truth...
J. H. Fabre 「The Wonders of Instinct」
... The sieve never sifts meal by itself...
Various 「The Journal of Negro History, Vol. I. Jan. 1916」
...Another drawback was that the motor boatleaked like a sieve, so that a man was kept constantlyat work baling her out, and we did not know that thestrain might not open her old timbers even more...
A. F. R. Wollaston 「Pygmies and Papuans」
...Small basket sieve for toasting or parching corn...
James Stevenson 「Illustrated Catalogue of the Collections Obtained」
...— To one can of Armour's Veribest Beans andTomato Sauce add two cups of milk; boil for a few minutes and passthrough a sieve...
Various 「Armour's Monthly Cook Book, Volume 2, No. 12, October 1913」
... "The mirror was to be cast in a mould of loam, of which an immense quantity was to be pounded in a mortar and sifted through a fine sieve...
Edward Singleton Holden 「Sir William Herschel: His Life and Works」
...He got into bed again, and the cat jumped up and curled down at the foot and started her old drum going, like shot in a sieve...
Henry Lawson 「Joe Wilson and His Mates」
...Hisservant who sat behind him, attempted to protect him from a heavy showerby holding over his head, with very great care, an old Chinese umbrellathat leaked like a sieve...
John Lort Stokes 「Discoveries in Australia, Volume 2」
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