Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Sift
Sifted fine as flour.
—Charles Dickens
Sifted, drifted, like the sun of sands in wastes Arabian.
—Andrew Lang
Sifted like great snowdrifts o’er the landscape.
—Henry W. Longfellow
Sift you as wheat.
—New Testament