Sands
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Examples
- The bones of his gallant army have whitened the sands of Palestine. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- As he was proceeding along the sands, he struck his foot against something, and fell all his length on the ground. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- The wind blows about the sands of the desert; the position of the grains is changed. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Something interfered, and we did not visit the Red Sea and walk upon the sands of Arabia. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Most of the sands which we find on the beaches and in other places are the ruins of rocks which have come apart, usually as the result of the action of water. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- I climbed a near tree: the level sands bounded by a pine forest, and the sea clipped round by the horizon, was all that I could discern. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- At the sands, of course! Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Pure siliceous sands are very valuable for the manufacture of glass, for making mortar, filters, ameliorating dense clay soils, for making molds in founding and for many other purposes. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Sands Bedwin, Bobachy Bahawder, and an &c. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- They encountered him again and again on the sands, the cliffs, in the various walks, sometimes at the public balls of the place. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Having now told the story of Rosanna, I have only to notice one of the many queer ways of this strange girl to get on next to the story of the sands. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- How few in youth's prime, moor their vessels on the golden sands, and collect the painted shells that strew them. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- I don't even know how long it was after the Sergeant had gone to the sands, when Duffy came running back with a message for me. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The lower view shows a suction dredge, which operates on soft mud or sands, pumping the discharge through the pipe seen at the left of the illustration. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Sands differ in color according to the rocks from which they are derived. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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