The ikryanchik starts by gently massaging the ovaries through a mesh screen so that the individual beads sift slowly into a bowl.

Pitt slowly sifted through the photographs, studying the close-up features of the dead.

The elector sifted gradually and slowly through these thoughts with one one-hundredth of his consciousness.

The two old dears slowly but methodically sifted the rows of their debris, creaking and grunting with every movement as if it would be their last.

Doyle had to sift slowly.

He drew out a handful of rose petals and slowly sifted them over the kender 's head.

In the lab, he and his students are slowly sifting through the 88-pound block of dirt that surrounded the Indian pot to look for more pieces of it.

He stooped and scooped up a handful of the red-brown soil, letting it sift slowly between his fingers.

Yagharek began to sift slowly through them.

Amalrus lowered his hands and shook his head violently, intelligence slowly sifting back into his grey eyes.