2009, Monica Prendergast, Juliana Saxton, Applied Theatre: International Case Studies and Challenges for Practice, Intellect Books (→ISBN), page 155:
Craigflower Schoolhouse, 1860 Juliana Saxton and Margaret Burke. (1986). Drama Contact, 1(10), 13–19. A light skiffle of snow covers the ground. At the foot of the gentle slope, the water of the tidal inlet reflects the grey skies above. The air ...
2012, Simon Gough, The White Goddess: An Encounter, Galley Beggar Press (→ISBN)
After the slam of the Land Rover's back door, the dense peace returned, filled only with the soft skiffle of rain on the truck's tin roof and the faint gurgling of down pipes from the gutters filling the deposito under the terrace – sounds that meant so ...
2013, Harry MacKay, Church Rebel With a Cause: So this is why the Church began to decline in the 1960s, FriesenPress (→ISBN), page 47:
I choose to walk home through a skiffle of snow rather than by car—which I leave in the church parking lot —giving me time to consider the pros and cons of running. Peggy will have a lot of questions for which I had better have answers.
2015, Robert Bateman, Life Sketches, Simon and Schuster (→ISBN), page 298:
We had had a skiffle of snow, and Birgit was carrying an umbrella. I had stopped to take a picture, and she was already ahead of me and wistfully looking at the ground. As in so many of my paintings, it was that unpredictable “Aha!” moment ...
