And any one could see that he shook with fear, and that there broke out upon his lips curious white flakes, like thin snow. 查尔斯·狄更斯.远大前程.
It was so dark now you could only see the flakes blowing past and the rigid dark of the pine trunks. 欧内斯特·海明威.丧钟为谁而鸣.
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. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
By the time they reached the camp it was snowing and the flakes were dropping diagonally through the pines. 欧内斯特·海明威.丧钟为谁而鸣.
It was a heavy, settled fall, I recollect, in great flakes; and it lay thick. 查尔斯·狄更斯.大卫·科波菲尔.
The flakes were coming heavy and fast in the rain. 欧内斯特·海明威.永别了,武器.
We proceeded through the snow, which lay in masses impeding the way, while the descending flakes, driving against me with redoubled fury, blinded me. 玛丽·雪莱.最后一个人.
The gay plumage, shorn from the crests, drifted upon the breeze like snow-flakes. 沃尔特·司各特.艾凡赫.
To and fro he walked, while the flakes fell faster; and the wind, which at first had but moaned, pitifully howled. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.雪莉.
Where the paint has yielded to age and exposure and is peeling off in flakes and patches, the effect is not happy. 马克·吐温.傻子出国记.
Unlike the other two common methods of making salt, it forms tiny salt flakes instead of the usual cubes or lumps. 佚名.神奇的知识之书.