"Sand bar" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of Europe ranks in importance with Paris and London. This singular town was built upon a group of sandy islets lying in the Adriatic Sea about two miles from the mainland. It was protected from the waves by a long, narrow sand bar, similar to those which fringe the Atlantic coast from New Jersey southward. Such a situation would not ordinarily have been deliberately chosen as the site of a great city; but its very desolation and inaccessibility ...
— An Introduction to the History of Western Europe • James Harvey Robinson
... dam and in the same moment the Indian turned the canoe towards a soft bar of sand. A few seconds later, having landed, he pointed to the sand. A canoe had been beached there, and plain as the footprints which startled Crusoe, were the marks of moccasined feet going from and returning to the sand bar. ...
— A Mating in the Wilds • Ottwell Binns
... and swim their mustangs across to that sand bar," explained Naab. "The current helps when she's high, and there's a three-foot ...
— The Heritage of the Desert • Zane Grey |
