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  • He saw her form get smaller and smaller along the damp belt of sea-sand between ebb and flood; and when she had vanished round the cliff into the harbour-road, he himself followed in the same direction.

    Wessex Tales 2006

  • In nearly all the rivers good sections of the formation may be seen in their deeply-cleft banks, broad, light-coloured bands of pumice, with a few inches of rich, black, vegetable soil above, and several feet of black sea-sand below.

    Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004

  • In order to accumulate the necessary amount of fine sea-sand, he ordered the steward to prepare for an elaborate system of top-dressing all the grounds.

    The Lair of the White Worm 2003

  • To carry the scheme into practice great store of fine sea-sand — the kind that blows about and is used to fill hour-glasses — was provided throughout the building, especially at the points liable to attack, from which it could be brought into use.

    The Lair of the White Worm 2003

  • The round stones lying in the niches were whitened somewhat with sea-sand which the wind had no doubt driven through the door.

    Salammbo 2003

  • THE sea-sand drifts about my feet and whitens on the dunes,

    The Lighthouse and the Whistling-Buoy. 1997

  • After slaking it, mix your mortar, if using pitsand, in the proportions of three parts of sand to one of lime; if using river or sea-sand, mix two parts of sand with one of lime.

    The Ten Books on Architecture Vitruvius Pollio

  • Furthermore, when sea-sand is used in walls and these are coated with stucco, a salty efflorescence is given out which spoils the surface.

    The Ten Books on Architecture Vitruvius Pollio

  • Further, in using river or sea-sand, the addition of a third part composed of burnt brick, pounded up and sifted, will make your mortar of a better composition to use.

    The Ten Books on Architecture Vitruvius Pollio

  • Fill a pot with soil taken from the top nine inches of an arable field or untrenched part of the garden; another with subsoil taken from the lower depth, 9 to 18 inches, and a third with clean builder's sand or washed sea-sand.

    Lessons on Soil E. J. Russell

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