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  • A few cars could be seen carefully navigating twisted and sand-strewn roads in an apparent attempt to flee, or survey the damage to their communities.

    In the Northeast, Fire, Water and Ruin Yuka Hayashi 2011

  • A few cars could be seen carefully navigating twisted and sand-strewn roads in an apparent attempt to flee, or survey the damage to their communities.

    Quake, Tsunami Slam Japan Chester Dawson 2011

  • A few cars could be seen carefully navigating twisted and sand-strewn roads in an apparent attempt to flee, or survey the damage to their communities.

    Relief Effort Continues as Nuclear Worries Loom Chester Dawson 2011

  • He also made sure to pause for applause after he named some of the people that helped turn a napkin sketch into a sand-strewn reality.

    David Rockwell, Bloomberg Open Imagination Playground (PHOTOS) 2010

  • He also made sure to pause for applause after he named some of the people that helped turn a napkin sketch into a sand-strewn reality.

    David Rockwell, Bloomberg Open Imagination Playground (PHOTOS) 2010

  • "The Bible, it seems certain, was the work of sand-strewn men and women who thought the earth was flat and for whom a wheelbarrow would have been a breathtaking example of emerging technology," Mr. Harris writes.

    Nina Burleigh: God and Christmas, Part One 2009

  • Visitors can climb 102 sand-strewn steps to a platform that provides vistas of the entire island and, on clear days, Denmark beyond.

    Teatime Amid Wandering Dunes 2008

  • The Bible, it seems certain, was the work of sand-strewn men and women who thought the earth was flat and for whom a wheelbarrow would have been a breathtaking example of emerging technology.

    The End of Faith: Jeers. | Mind on Fire 2006

  • I think the writers of the Bible, sand-strewn though they certainly were women, though?

    The End of Faith: Jeers. | Mind on Fire 2006

  • When he caught sight of the pteridons " and the Myrmidons with their lances " he lowered his rifle and watched as the pteridons began to land on the sand-strewn flat.

    Soarer's Choice Modesitt, L. E. 2006

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