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Example sentences for "fine sand"

  • I have also found that this accident may generally be prevented by mixing the Blood with some matter that can afford no principle by distillation; such as pounded glass or fine sand.

  • In this way the small stones and fine sand, or any other heavy substance which may be there, remain in the first vessel, and should be thrown away.

  • Broken rock or stones, or the coarse or fine sand, are removed from the mortar of this machine and heaped up, as is also done with the same materials when raked out of the dump near the mine.

  • The gravel is not thrown out by the waves, but rolls backwards and forwards until it is worn down to the state of fine sand, when it, in its turn, is cast upon the land and taken up by the wind.

  • It was a kind of fine sand, or stone, ground or burnt to powder, and was exceedingly troublesome to the eyes.

  • We tacked nearly in the same place where we had tacked before, and on sounding found a bottom of fine sand.

  • The gravel is not thrown out by the waves, but rolls backward and forward until it is worn down to the state of fine sand, when it, in its turn, is cast upon the land and taken up by the wind.

  • At half-past six we hauled round a high bluff point, the rocks whereof were like so many fluted pillars, and had ten fathoms water, fine sand, within half a mile of the shore.

  • At one o'clock we reached the entrance of the inlet just as the tide of ebb was making out; the wind being likewise against us, we anchored in twelve fathoms water, the bottom a fine sand.

  • For, although the lead may bring up fine sand, there are nevertheless some sharp coral rocks, that would soon destroy the cables.

  • We then steered along shore, and continued in the same depth, over a bottom of fine sand, till Cape Digby bore W.

  • At four in the afternoon anchored off the northmost in eight fathom water, fine sand, about half a cable's length from the shore put the vessel in, and landed some people to see for wood and water.

  • At eleven o'clock the land was seen ahead and we veered ship in 32 fathoms, fine sand.

  • If they become as small as fine sand, and if the water clears up, the indigo is allowed quietly to subside.

  • The filtering substance consists at bottom of pebbles, in the middle of gravel, and at the top of fine sand, which may be mixed with coarsely ground bone-black, or covered with a layer of the same.

  • When the casting is large, the charcoal dusting as well as that of fine sand, is suppressed.

  • Thus we find in Scotland, on the southern skirts of the Grampians, beds of pudding-stone alternating with thin layers of fine sand, all placed vertically to the horizon.

  • Sacred Island is formed entirely of layers of fine sand of different colours, covered by a little vegetable mould.

  • It is seamed by thin layers of fine sand: beds of sandstone are of occasional occurrence.

  • Several ravines here have their sides composed of fine sand, inclosing fragments of soft sandstone.

  • The heat became intense, we were choked and blinded by clouds of fine sand, and after a long and weary march, came to a halt in a barren scorching karroo at the foot of a rugged hill.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    clearly enough; even worse; fine bread; fine cloth; fine copy; fine example; fine flavor; fine gold; fine lady; fine laid; fine large; fine paste; fine picture; fine place; fine salt; fine specimen; fine style; fine trees; fine voice; fine writing; fine yellow; fine young; finely minced; out for; pretty strong; violent hurry