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    sand


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    1. They have a tough plastic or hide side to expose to the ground, or sand in this case, with a nylon lining and dacron batting


    2. DE is chemically identical to quartz and white ocean sand


    3. There were a few scraggles of thin ribbonleaves and some sap-nubs trying to hold the fine red sand together


    4. I suggest that you use builder’s sand around the base of any wooden structures at least 2 feet out and two feet deep


    5. I suggest that you mix DE with the builders sand as you apply it


    6. DE can also be mixed in with your builders sand for added protection


    7. Construction Sand (90%) and DE (10%) mixed together and laid down around the house 3 feet deep and 3 feet out from the house will prevent termites from moving into your house


    8. We all shivered as he pulled his leather face out of the sand


    9. John stops, sits in the sand, watches the moon rising


    10. Dave feels the cool sand sliding between his fingers

    11. sand on a beach, never knowing


    12. Some hand tooled leather cowboy boots sit on the sand floor by an old chest


    13. could hear the gentle break of surf on golden sand


    14. It ended where the wash ended and fanned out over dry sand looking across the basin floor at the encroaching dark


    15. Even though the place certainly wouldn't boast of city services, it would probably be a better place to spend the dark than dry sand


    16. The wind was strong enough to whip fine sand up high enough to choke them, but not enough to hide the high clouds that would roll on beyond this desert to the hills beyond the lake


    17. They had to shield their faces from the sand kicked up, then they had to lean into the wind


    18. A villa sits in the moonlight a hundred yards inland and up a hill from the surf, which rhythmically pounds the white sand


    19. She brought her feet down gently to the sand on a beach of moderate surf, one of the exposed sides of this island


    20. "I have his place archived if you'd like," Ava said, dropping to the sand beside her

    21. She stepped back off the carpet and found herself stepping down onto the sand again, the home disappeared and the wild pristine beach front was all around them with a beautiful Persian carpet hovering eight to fourteen inches off the sand


    22. Unperturbed, Ricci cuts across the highway median and peels out, slinging sand and gravel, speeds back in the other direction


    23. She could see how the ship was eroded from the sand that happened by in this orbit as she went into the airlock


    24. Smith drew a metaphorical line in the cosmic sand


    25. - She attached the best rendering of the wagon that was headed across the sand toward the shuttlecraft's old resting site


    26. She turned to walk in the spume of the waves as they strolled up the sand


    27. "No, there's another thing you should know," she said, splashing thru the toes of the surf where it ran up the sand


    28. I could feel no sunny warmth on my skin nor could I luxuriate in soft and yielding sand under my toes


    29. My dreams of achieving true rapport with The Kid were built on foundations of sand


    30. Using Fred’s suggestion, we are packing the barrel with damp sand to hold the tree upright and in the hope that the dampness will stop it dropping quite as fast as they generally do; this, naturally, means we need a sheet of plastic to protect the floor … oh it just gets more complicated by the second! But between us we get it all sorted out

    31. I walked on the white sand, I admired the high blond cliffs surrounding the beach, I passed by the old shipwreck which has been rusting under the sun for decades now


    32. He was near a tiny spring with one date palm next to it and an acre of weeds along the little trickle that ran a few hundred feet before disappearing into the sand


    33. I was transported back to the moment when Robinson Crusoe sees that footprint in the sand


    34. Their anchorage was beautiful, a sheltered cove behind a fine sand beach


    35. The landscape was magical: A vast seaside of rosy sand stretched before me, an odd treasure of tiny pink diamonds turning white under the shallow sea waves in the distance


    36. The pink sand was studded with shell-shaped rocks of various sizes and colours


    37. he glided over the sand


    38. A nose rudder began to bite a little soft sand and they began to come around much more quickly, accompanied by painful groans from the coupling knuckles that joined the raft sections together


    39. The rudder broke free of the sand and the ship continued it's two mph drift, downstream, into the next bend


    40. dagger flew from his hand, over Sons’ head, into the sand in front of Son

    41. They skirted round a collection of rocks half sunk in the sand, keeping the sun on their left


    42. collapsed in the desert sand


    43. Days later Son climbed over a mountain of sand and he could see the


    44. As Son walked down from the mountain of sand he was greeted by


    45. In front of them, a vast expanse of sand stretched towards the distant waters and just round to the left was the aforementioned pier … a long narrow construction reaching far out across the sands towards the sea


    46. a child runs across the liquid sand


    47. tracking towards him in the sand


    48. My boots thick and heavy with clinging sand,


    49. It is possible this is what Jesus was referencing when He said, “If you don’t follow my teachings, it’s like a man who builds his house on the sand


    50. To this day, if you go to the area that Caesarea used to be, you can find pieces of marble in the sand and on the tide














































    1. The next afternoon, with more of the deck still to be sanded, he set them to task once more


    2. When that deck was completely sanded, they varnished


    3. Billy mentioned in passing as they munched their toast that all the woodwork would need to be both washed down and then sanded … that had set a horrified Chrissie off suggesting that they should start with the walls, the need to apply paint to something … to make her mark on the room so very strong in her


    4. on a new roof, gutted the interior, replaced boards in the floor and sanded and


    5. Squatting like two British bullfrogs, they sanded


    6. “Amazing Grace” flowed through the room and for a moment as he sanded, John


    7. The wood was now sanded smooth, varnished and polished


    8. An intrepid bicycle delivery boy skidded out from a narrow street, tires rasping on sanded concrete


    9. Only the scrape of her boots on the sanded trail broke the silence


    10. spotted the pine casket he sanded in carpentry

    11. After we had sanded it


    12. I worked on that dresser in the hot July sun every day, until it was stripped and completely sanded


    13. The arrows had been made using green bamboo for the shafts, which had been straightened and sanded smooth


    14. sanded beach and before I knew what was going on, the men had


    15. golden sanded shore of the island


    16. Such cast iron is initially welded and sanded


    17. A mix of sun umbrellas and make shift gazeboes peppered the sanded car park on which it sat, it was a place of lazy destiny, and was called the same


    18. After the brush is "broken in" (sanded to provide a soft smooth finish while diminishing dragging), and the handle is attached to the brush, the brushes are put through a process (proprietary) to assure that straight cutting line on the brush


    19. A reel is connected to the seat with a long sanded metal object called


    20. • Ease of repair, stains and scratches can be sanded out and re-oiled without

    21. The officer wrote until he had finished, read over to himself what he had written, sanded it, and handed it to Defarge, with the words


    22. Inside curves can be sanded by hand or with a spindle or


    23. She tried to summon yesterday’s crushing guilt, but the remorse had been sanded down by the rough images she’d found on her husband’s computer


    24. At Haddington road corner two sanded women halted themselves, an umbrella and a bag in which eleven cockles rolled to view with wonder the lord mayor and lady mayoress without his golden chain


    25. Colin raced around the corner of the building, his feet slipping on the lightly sanded sidewalk


    26. After having written so far, Don Martin Decoud, the exotic dandy of the Parisian boulevard, got up and walked across the sanded floor of the cafe at one end of the Albergo of United Italy, kept by Giorgio Viola, the old companion of Garibaldi


    27. “He’s having many of the books rebound at a country bindery nearby, and the paneling sanded with two new coats of varnish


    28. The community of fowls to which Tess had been appointed as supervisor, purveyor, nurse, surgeon, and friend made its headquarters in an old thatched cottage standing in an enclosure that had once been a garden, but was now a trampled and sanded square


    29. Almost five months after that first bloody attack, every chink in its exterior walls had been sanded and painted over with fresh white paint


    30. The walks are sanded with river sand; there are tiny violet shells

    31. "I've plastered it, painted it, run its new wires, sanded its floors, and laid the gloss


    32. I could see clearly a room with a sanded floor, clean scoured; a dresser of walnut, with pewter plates ranged in rows, reflecting the redness and radiance of a glowing peat-fire


    33. So flew'd, so sanded; and their heads are hung


    34. Standing on the snow-covered plain, as if in a pasture amid the hills, I cut my way first through a foot of snow, and then a foot of ice, and open a window under my feet, where, kneeling to drink, I look down into the quiet parlor of the fishes, pervaded by a softened light as through a window of ground glass, with its bright sanded floor the same as in summer; there a perennial waveless serenity reigns as in the amber twilight sky, corresponding to the cool and even temperament of the inhabitants


    1. Now they were supposed to use the squat position from the sanding chore, but with a heavy towel grasped in both hands in front of them


    2. George set him to hand rubbing and polishing as soon as he was big enough to hold the rags, and he spent hours sanding the glued and cured rod blanks, reel seats, and grips until his handshake was near as firm as any grown man


    3. Next, sanding the front porch


    4. Harry had to manufacture the proper sanding blocks as he could not seem to find a suitable substitute wherever he searched


    5. "Won't that make it hard to keep the floor shiny? I mean, wouldn't it be better if we remove the old wax first?” Why hadn't she just kept her mouth shout, she never thought they’d take it to the point of sanding the floors – she figured they’d just chemically strip them


    6. sanding, and cutting the wood that would eventually be a giant mural covering the


    7. The trim required scrubbing and sanding, but close inspection revealed other flaws


    8. All the doctors helped sanding these numerous pieces and Anne had the kids build all kinds of constructions with these blocks


    9. First thing in the morning until noon was housework, then work on stripping and sanding


    10. Others followed, sanding down the excess once the substance had hardened

    11. Since the marriage contract was done a week before, they continued directly to the Sanding, where the bride and groom will sit side by side on a stage in front of all the guests, this is a testament that they are officially married


    12. Having Adam there every day to help with steaming off wallpaper or sanding the floors could have been awkward


    13. sanding trucks and ploughs


    14. ) Hand tools: This would apply to the putty knives, scrapers, sanding blocks, a five in one, and a can opener


    15. The glass lenses had cooled and with a little sanding they slid into their slots easily


    16. Give the entire unit a thorough sanding and then stain


    17. Growing up and learning his trade from his father at Eton, he had used simple hand tools—saws, hammers, chisels, wood planes, and sanding blocks


    18. Pocock had spent his days at Travers Island carefully sanding down the shell’s hull and then applying coat after coat of marine varnish, buffing each coat until the shell glistened


    1. Elond, on the other hand, was a beautiful beach girl who's chin and nose were a little narrower and who's ears were a little thinner, smoother and more pointed than the hottest girls back on the sands of Sao Luis


    2. The cosmic vortex was setting setting, the sands of time were running out


    3. In front of them, a vast expanse of sand stretched towards the distant waters and just round to the left was the aforementioned pier … a long narrow construction reaching far out across the sands towards the sea


    4. Many have passed the rocks of gross sins… who have suffered shipwrecks upon the sands of self-righteousness


    5. A mind wanders the sands,


    6. gazing across the sands of time that run


    7. He collects up his belongings and, with a cheerful wave, runs off across the sands towards the village


    8. summer skies of blue run into the sands


    9. the falling sands in Time’s hourglass


    10. He sets up a camping table and mumbles something about the Sands of the Nile

    11. water flowing over the sands and lapping against the base of the


    12. bridge immovably into the sands around it


    13. Upon the sands so rough,


    14. They left the airbase with tyre tracks as the only evidence of their activities, evidence soon to be erased by the shifting sands


    15. After that, X’ander made his way to the Dead Sands, where he expected to live the remainder of his days malcontent and dwelling on the crumbled dreams of his past


    16. An army of ants could no sooner remove the sands from the desert world Er'Konis than the defenders could strike down every last one of the undead


    17. When the sands are all dry, he is gay as a lark, And will talk in contemptuous tones of the Shark, But, when the tide rises and sharks are around, His voice has a timid and tremulous sound


    18. In the next few days we walked across stony ground, sands and wadis


    19. Presuming that there was likely to be no more information, the adventurers made their excuses, promising to tell Balzar about his brother when the retrieved the Globe, and Bleanor led them out to the blistering desert sands


    20. Since the inception of time our world has never lacked for lawyers: its membership exceeding (all) the grains of sands in (all) the oceans multiplied by (all) the stars in the heavens

    21. [later editions continued as follows When the sands are all dry, he is gay as a lark, And will talk in contemptuous tones of the Shark, But, when the tide rises and sharks are around, His voice has a timid and tremulous sound


    22. This was two hundred and fifty kilometres downstream from the tar sands development in Alberta


    23. Royal Schnell Oil wanted to build a big new refinery, right here in Lennox; to process tar sands crude


    24. He was worried that food and water would become even more scarce in the endless sands


    25. The Pilgrim started chanting, his clear voice challenging the howls of the rising wind, cutting a clean path through the hurtling sands towards the heart of the storm


    26. And the wind grew louder and stronger; the sands started to tear at their skin, lashing them like razor sharp tufts of steely grass


    27. “Blessed be the sands of our Father


    28. Memories flashed back of forty years past, of Gordon Elmer with his orange painted ex-army vehicle, loaded up with LP and his mates, as well as food, drinks and surf boards, and travelled ten clicks along the coloured sands stretch of beach to Double Island


    29. Eight Delhi Sands flies on the endangered list were discovered near the construction site of a hospital in


    30. Projects have been cancelled due to listing the delhi sands flower loving fly

    31. When scientists tested the first nuclear devise in White Sands New Mexico, ground zero became crystalized


    32. The sands of time have already started to pour against you,” she said and then cracked to laughter, removing contact from one of her eyes she revealed her true identity


    33. Walter longed for the Nile moaning past its Egyptian sands, and a glimpse of the sphinx


    34. What is there to make you smile in sands of time?


    35. To count the sands, the rays of stars,


    36. For I have sinned above the number of the sands of the sea


    37. Soon, though, the purple sands of time began to run out, and Mantis returned to speak with us


    38. Virginia lay on the beach sands, listening to the gentle thunder of waves on the shore blend with the soft sound of snoring


    39. There was nothing but the gentle rhythm of the sea against the sands


    40. until the sands of time begin to cease

    41. sands of banks failed and closed their doors


    42. REVATHI TAPA :- IS CARRIED ON THE SANDS OF RIVER


    43. As the colored sands slid


    44. Eight Delhi Sands flies on the endangered list were discovered near the construction site of a hospital in Colton ,CA and forced the hospital to move the construction about 300 feet at a cost of $300 million and a fly preserve was established at a cost of $4


    45. It will lead nowhere,” he says, pacing at first, then advancing toward the white sands


    46. ” Lying through his teeth, Dino said that he fought hard for me, but was outvoted by 1) Hottman, 2) Hansen (woman business development director whom I was investigating for off the books contracting, 3) the Hispanic woman Program Manager, Esparza, for contracts with the Army at White Sands who consistently worked in advance of receipt of funding on IDIQ contracts, and 4) the Director’s Assistant, Shelley Meyers, an alcoholic floozy who cast Director Birx’s proxy


    47. “Accordingly, we of The Fisher Folk have gifted you with a vacation home in the luxurious resort of White Sands Beach


    48. Elves and humans could be seen taking their leisure on the sands, or riding the huge breaking waves toward the shore in tiny dugout canoes


    49. “White Sands Beach has the mildest weather of any place on Kellaran


    50. Here is the beach house at White Sands Resort





































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    Synonyms for "sand"

    backbone grit gumption guts moxie sand amandine aurore lucie dupin baroness dudevant george sand sandpaper sediment grounds drift alluvium deposition mud deposit silt

    "sand" definitions

    a loose material consisting of grains of rock or coral


    French writer known for works concerning women's rights and independence (1804-1876)


    fortitude and determination


    rub with sandpaper