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• Filling a sieve with sand! (8)
• The sand cliff shone like a bank of snow. (8)
• Sand should be sharp, clean, coarse quartz. (17)
• Thus, one part of cement to two parts of sand. (17)
• The floor was glistening with the purest of sand. (18)
• She found it drawn up on the sand in a little cove. (9)
• The bubbling spring was choked with stone and sand. (12)
• I assure you the wet sand actually brightened about his feet! (1)
• The well-scoured floor was strewn with sand and pine needles. (5)
• She started from her reverie as the bottom of the dory struck the sand. (9)
• The materials which do need consideration, however, are sand and gravel. (17)
• What the man must have is a good heart, plenty of pluck and lots of sand. (21)
• The foundations of the brick walk may be built of sand, cinders, or concrete. (17)
• In concrete work it is as important to have good sand and aggregate as cement. (17)
• That is, there should be just twice as much stone as there is cement and sand. (17)
• The sand used should not, when it is rubbed in the hand, leave the palm stained. (17)
• Pure lime paste, without sand, will shrink, crack, and develop very little strength. (17)
• The one essential of sand is that it be free from loam, mica, clay, and organic matter. (17)
• She heard steps on the sand, and Libby came round the corner of the house from the stable. (9)
• He dug his fingers into the sand, threw it over himself in handfuls and audibly blessed it. (1)
• No sand should contain more than 3 per cent by weight of loam or clay or 1 per cent of mica. (17)
• The size of sand particles should be such that they will pass through a quarter-inch screen. (17)
• And he stepped downward to the level of sand, and went the way of the shadows till it was dawn. (10)
• In 1837, he met Madame George Sand, the famous writer, whose influence on his life was so great. (3)
• The fine impurities will settle on the top and its proportional relation to the sand estimated. (17)
• Right ahead of me lay a barren waste of sand extending to the right and left as far as I could see. (7)
• The usual mixture for concrete walks should be 1 part cement to 2 parts sand to 3 parts of gravel. (17)
• We had to put our legs out of the boat, and shove ourselves off the sand of the bottom with our feet. (2)
• She brushed away some sand they had scattered over the seat, and got into the boat and sat down there. (9)
• We were down in the combe now; the tide was running out, and the sand all little, wet, shining ridges. (8)
• I thought it was a wreck, but Mr. Breckon says they are always drawing their ships that way up on the sand. (9)
• He watched the reddish sand, fluid and swift as water, flicker through an eye from the upper bulb into the lower. (12)
• What was it which struggled against pity and this feverish longing, and kept him there paralysed in the warm sand? (8)
• By introducing sand this contraction is reduced, but the addition of too much will decrease the strength slightly. (17)
• It is only necessary to mix the hydrated lime with water until it becomes a paste, and then add the necessary sand. (17)
• Sometimes he would erect houses of red stone, often he would dig great caves of many chambers and halls in the sand. (5)
• The maximum amount of sand to be used is generally governed by the ease of working, and not so much by the strength. (17)
• A little whiff of breeze stole up, and suddenly caught the letter from her open hands, and whisked it out over the sand. (9)
• Then the Chief struck his lance behind him, and stretched rapidly a half-circle across the sand, and halted on a knoll. (10)
• She was nowhere to be seen; for half an hour he looked for her; then on the beach flung himself face downward in the sand. (8)
• And the breeze, ruffling the desert sand, blew the grains against the palms of his hands, outstretched above the warm earth. (8)
• The commonest is 1 part of cement, 2½ parts of sand, to which is added about ¹/₁₀ part of hydrated lime by weight of cement. (17)
• I wrenched my hand out of his, grasped the arm supporting me and pushing myself free, fell plump into the sand and sat helpless. (1)
• A mortar made of 1 part lime to 6 parts sand is nearly as strong as one made from 1 part lime and 3 parts sand. (17)
• The purpose of adding sand is to increase the bulk and to reduce the shrinkage which pure lime paste will develop as it hardens. (17)
• We finally, then, arrive at the proportion for the concrete as follows: 1 part of cement to 2 parts of sand to 4 parts of gravel. (17)
• So the scene of the encounter was examined, and on one spot, carefully earthed over, blood-marks were discovered in the green sand. (10)
• He found himself floundering about in the deep sand, wide of the path; he got back to it, and reached the boat just before she started. (9)
• The shore was one of sand and shells, their wet cheeks sparkling in the moonlight; over it hung a promontory, a huge jut of black rock. (10)
• The quantity of loam or other fine impurities can be determined by shaking the sand up with water in a bottle, and allowing it to settle. (17)
• On the sand before this spectacle I talked with a philosopher of humble condition who backed upon me and knocked my umbrella out of my hand. (9)
• She rubbed the Shelly sand between her fingers in absurd ecstasy; took off her shoes and stockings, paddled, and sat drying her legs in the sun. (8)

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