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Sand

noun

A loose material consisting of grains of rock or coral.

French writer known for works concerning women's rights and independence (1804-1876). Synonyms: Amandine Aurore Lucie Dupin, Baroness Dudevant, George Sand.

Fortitude and determination. Synonyms: backbone, grit, gumption, guts, moxie.

verb

(past & past part. sanded; pres. part. sanding)

Rub with sandpaper. Synonym: sandpaper.

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"Sand" Quotes from Famous Books

... approached the scene of the disaster the wreck was made out to be that of a large ship, with only the stump of her main- mast standing. She was already fast settling down in the sand, the forepart of the hull being completely submerged, while the sea swept incessantly over the stern, which, with its full poop, formed the sole refuge of ...

— The Pirate Island - A Story of the South Pacific • Harry Collingwood

... conviction that there should always be some water in a view —a lake or a river, but not the ocean, if you are down on its level. I think that when you are down on its level it seldom inflames you with an ecstasy which you could not get out of a sand-flat. It is like being on board ship, over again; indeed it is worse than that, for there's three months of it. On board ship one tires of the aspects in a couple of days, and quits looking. The same vast circle of heaving humps is spread around you all the time, with you in the centre of it and ...

— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

... of messing the soda-stream was ideal. It brawled around flat rocks, set at convenient jumping-distances from one another. (She leaped promptly to one of these and sopped her handkerchief.) It circled into sand-bottomed pools just shallow enough for wading; and from the pools, it spread out thinly to thread the grass, thus giving her an opportunity for squashing—a diverting pastime consisting in squirting equal parts of water and soil ticklishly through the toes. She hopped from rock ...

— The Poor Little Rich Girl • Eleanor Gates

... land, Who for a kingdom kneeleth to implore thee, Now menaced by this tyrant's spoiling hand; No one but thee can hopefully withstand That crooked blade, he longeth so to lift. I pray thee blind him with his own vile sand, Which only times all ruins by its drift, Or prune his eagle ...

— The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood • Thomas Hood

... think you live. But listen! Have you seen the nine waves roll Monotonous upon the shoal, Rising and falling like a maiden asleep; Then with a lift and a leap The ninth wave curls, and breaks upon the beach, And rushes up it, swallowing the sand? I am that ocean.... Now, ...

— Household Gods • Aleister Crowley

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