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Example sentences for "white sand"

  • Boards may be rendered white and clean by scrubbing them, instead of with soap, with a mixture composed of one part of freshly slaked lime and three parts of white sand.

  • They dared not give even as much as a glance over the smooth, snow-white sand.

  • On completing seven miles we crossed a low ridge of white sand on which grew stunted trees of stringybark and black-butted gumtrees (both belonging to the genus eucalyptus).

  • Our camp was marked out on a low hill of white sand on which grew mahogany and stringybark trees of large dimensions.

  • The northern margin of one of the salt lakes consisted of a bank of white sand on which grew thickly a kind of pine, different from the trees around.

  • The hills we occasionally fell in with consisted of white sand, and at first looked like connected ridges where we might find streams; but we ascertained that they always parted without enclosing any channels and left us in the mud.

  • The blue waters are behind you, the lofty fortress-like façade before you, and a strip of white sand is at your feet.

  • We had just gone on the bridge for breakfast when we saw him walking slowly from us along an island of white sand as flat as your hand, and on which he loomed large as a haystack.

  • Down there, on a little bed of white sand, lay a dead seal stretched out flat, as one would lay a tablecloth.

  • Instead there was a great stretch of white sand like a sea-beach, but with little trees and shrubs and tufts of grass dotted here and there.

  • In it is nothing, not a prominence of any kind, save the omnipresent sage-brush that seems to stretch in streaky uniformity like a great purple-brown veil above the cream-white sand.

  • The situation was at the west side of the upper extreme of Point Fowler, immediately behind the sand-drifts of the coast, which there were high, bare, and of white sand.

  • The water to which the native took us was procured by digging about four feet deep, in a swamp behind the coast hummocks, which were here high and bare, and composed of white sand.

  • After a careful examination a hollow was selected between the two front ridges of white sand, where the overseer thought it likely we might be successful.

  • They put to sea again and found another land, flat and wooded, with a white sand shore, low-lying towards the sea.

  • We found a broad surface of white sand, which at that season formed the dry bed of the river.

  • Their anchor they cast in the white, white sand.

  • Forth when Hervik's frigate Touched the fair land, Cast she forth her anchor Into the white, white sand.

  • Cast she down her anchor Into the white, white sand; And the first was Hervik the Earl's daughter To spring with her foot to land.

  • As we go on, the banks become hills and the broad river, which has been showing sheets of sandbanks in all directions, now narrows and shows only neat little beaches of white sand in shallow places along the bank.

  • From this Cape the Land Trends away South-East by South and South-East to and beyond Mount Camel, and is everywhere a barren shore affording no better prospect than what ariseth from white sand Banks.

  • A part of this Shoal is always above Water, and looks to be white Sand; part of the one we were upon was dry at low Water, and in that place consists of Sand and stones, but every where else Coral Rocks.

  • What we have as yet seen of this land appears rather low, and not very hilly, the face of the Country green and Woody, but the Sea shore is all a white Sand.

  • Here there is a large pool of fresh water, on which a boat is kept during the summer, so that one can be ferried across it and land on the smooth beach of white sand at the far end of the cave.

  • Then we came to woods of all sorts of palms, mostly low growing on white sand, and here and there pools and marshes over which the palms stood and were reflected and threw sharp shadows across the blue reflection from the sky.

  • In contrast to the cold blue light and snow-white sand, is the group of figures on deck in bright dresses, dancing.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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