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Examples for "drifting sand"
Examples for "drifting sand"
1We could not go out for the drifting sand, without being thickly veiled.
2The high cliffs extending from north to south are barriers against the drifting sand.
3And now the dead began to speak, their voices toneless as the drifting sand.
4Yet the débris of masonry may have been largely covered up by drifting sand.
5There came a whirlwind, thick with dust, the clay-dust, and drifting sand and gravel.
1Frantically she rose, four legs scrambling for purchase in the shifting sand.
2They pile it up in shifting sand-banks about the mouth of the æstuary.
3It shall be barren and stark, a place of rocks and shifting sand!
4Every one had warned him of the extreme peril from the shifting sand-dunes.
5Our little city was cradled amid the shifting sand-hills on Michigan's wave-beaten shore.
1A sand drift a foot in length covered the well curb.
2They were resting on a little sand drift at the base of the rock that had caused the damage.
3The banks at this point were all sand drift; we could not find a stone large enough to whet our knives.
4Across the mesas, the silt dust and sand drift still whirled in fitful gusts; but the air no longer carried the scorch of burning oil.
5The woman bowed her head, like one imprisoned in a sand drift, not to be crossed in any direction, but closing in and weighing down.
6There were simply thousands of the great sand drifts in every direction.
7The team was driven into the security of the sand drifts and unhitched.
8Then the sand drifts back again to the places already cleared.
9There's never any trail here at all, the sand drifts so.
10Twenty-four miles below Black Falls there was encampment, the road blocked by sand drifts.
11The sand drifted like snow half-way up to its windows.
12Sand drifts were ten feet high in some places.
13And there was sand drifted all over the garden.
14All along the coast ran a row of flying- sand drifts, with lyme-grass on their tops.
15They made little pits in the moving sand ; and more sand drifted up and covered them.
16Tell him that the sands drift very quickly.