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Today, while reading a novel, my attention was concerned about this step:

As the fever left me I was brought back to my cell, I was so exhausted that I lived there since then without reluctance. Dr. Petti, the prison doctor, recommended me to take as much air as I could, but I did not have sufficient strength to go into " sieve", the courtyard where we were allowed to walk up and down like caged beasts sad ...

the examination. And it occurred to me how many times we say (or hear): to sift, the declaration is being studied by investigators

... But what is the screening?

as usual, I consulted the etymological dictionary, discovering once again that we use the words correctly, but not always with knowledge of the facts:

short, a sort of sieve . And then the meaning in metaphor metaphorical meaning, the prisoners in the courtyard of the novel I'm reading, had to be so close that they look like a sieve a sieve.

sieve of the nineteenth century (Castelvenere, Benevento)

The novel in question is We believed Anna Banti.