Quicksand
['kwɪksænd]
Definition
(noun.) a pit filled with loose wet sand into which objects are sucked down.
(noun.) a treacherous situation that tends to entrap and destroy.
Typist: Millie--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) Sand easily moved or readily yielding to pressure; especially, a deep mass of loose or moving sand mixed with water, sometimes found at the mouth of a river or along some coasts, and very dangerous, from the difficulty of extricating a person who begins sinking into it.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To find yourself in quicksand while dreaming, you will meet with loss and deceit. If you are unable to overcome it, you will be involved in overwhelming misfortunes. For a young woman to be rescued by her lover from quicksand, she will possess a worthy and faithful husband, who will still remain her lover.
Typist: Ursula
Examples
- We can go round by the coast, Mr. Franklin, said Betteredge; and get to the quicksand in that way with plenty of time to spare. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- I had always had a notion that something would happen to me at the quicksand. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- To run my hand along the Chain, when found, until I come to the part of it which stretches over the edge of the rocks, down into the quicksand. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The Deeps of the Quicksand have got her. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- He pointed to the south side--otherwise, the side which was not filled up by the quicksand. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Is anything thrown into that quicksand of yours, ever thrown up on the surface again? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- I wish to God we had thrown it into the quicksand! Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- She has sunk the case, in the water or in the quicksand. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- From that point, I have already traced the succession of events which led me to the astounding discovery at the quicksand. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Between the two, shifting backwards and forwards at certain seasons of the year, lies the most horrible quicksand on the shores of Yorkshire. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- She snatched her hand off my shoulder, and suddenly pointed down to the quicksand. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- I had penetrated the secret which the quicksand had kept from every other living creature. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- I may own the truth--with the quicksand waiting to hide me when the words are written. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- I was thinking, sir, I answered, that I should like to shy the Diamond into the quicksand, and settle the question in THAT way. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- I own I closed my eyes at the moment when the point of the stick first entered the quicksand. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Sinking shafts through quicksands by artificially freezing the sand, so as to form a firm frozen wall immediately around the area where the shaft is to be sunk, is a recent new idea. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
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