If Hervey had waited as long on the log in the quicksand as he waited now, there would have been no Gold Cross.
He could escape the quicksandbut he couldn't escape this.
In the meantime Tom was wholly unaware that the engulfing quicksand was reaching up gradually toward his hips.
After a few days there will follow either a gradual shifting away or a sudden cave in, and the quicksand must once more be attacked.
At the outset a few feet of these steel piles were left exposed above the surface, their gradual settling serving as a reliable index to the evasive movements of the extensive quicksand underneath.
By the time it struck the edge of the possibly conquered quicksand it was moving at the rate of forty miles an hour.
Before long," Farnsworth went on, changing the subject, "I must get out on the desert and take a look at the quicksandthat the railroad folks are trying to cross.
Yet, on the other hand, it is possible that the fast moving train may have started the quicksand at some point.
It consisted of laying logs, of different lengths, from twelve to eighteen feet, in a transverse net work filling in earth on this and allowing the structure gradually to sink where the quicksand shifted or caved.
We have looked the quicksand over, and we feel sure that we see a way of stopping the Man-killer, and forcing it to sustain railroad ties and steel rails.
Sometimes it happens that engineers come upon a quicksand that apparently has no bottom.
Of course, if you like, you can set the laborers at work shoveling in more dirt at the points where the last slide of the quicksand occurred.
The real Man-killer quicksandis a mile to the south of where the tracks go, isn't it?
But to-day's shows that our plan for filling in this particular, kind of quicksand was a sound one.
To avoid every possibility of lurking quicksand the suspension bridge would have to be more than a mile long," Reade answered.
Then we cleaned out another well of the same kind so that the water came clear and cold from the quicksand and closed the first one so that nothing could get in.
I know that a quicksand bottom is not considered a good thing on a farm, but there is only this spot of it, and in a dry season it seems like a dispensation of Providence.
There is a low place in the woods where there is a quicksand bottom about four feet from the surface and for many years it has furnished an unfailing supply of water.
I got my chance out on the island, and I shot him, and threw his body into the quicksand over by the point.
There is a beach upon that coast, just above Cockburnspath, that might well have suggested to him the quicksand and the final catastrophe.
I could pull up, my poor old tired horse was floundering in a quicksand up to the girths; I threw myself off and tried to wheel him round.
The indications of a quicksand are easily recognised.
Here, too, adventures quickly appeared and multiplied, until even the fearful quicksand became a matter of smaller importance to the chums.
The vows thou hast broke, On the wild currents fling them; On the quicksand and rock Let the mermaidens sing them.
Bartrow was not yet fit to measure swords of repartee with any one, least of all with Miss Van Vetter, and the quicksand of speechlessness engulfed him.
It's ego, pure and unstrained, in most of us; a sluggish river of self, with a quicksand of evil for its bottom.
He would have had a difficult time in getting out of this quicksand without help, for a smooth, rock wall was on one side, the other bank of the stream was sheer above him for a few feet, and there was nothing solid which he could reach.
But holes drilled beside the river failed to find bottom, as nothing but quicksand existed even at a depth of nearly three hundred feet; and without a strong foundation, such a dam would be utterly useless.
The quicksand found below the present level would seem to indicate that the walls were once even higher than at present, and that a subsidence had taken place after the cutting.
We had seen a great deal of quicksand before this, but nothing of this treacherous nature.
Deeper and deeper in perplexity Sank the old man, the more in thought he strove; As when the swallow of a quicksand sucks Downward but faster one who writhes in vain.
In Quicksand some indulgence was accorded the natural ebullition of human nature.
The din was perforated at intervals by the /staccato/ of the Terror's guns, and was drowned periodically by the brazen screech that Quicksand knew so well.
You'll be city marshal of Quicksand as long as she's here to know it.
More magnanimous than Nero, he would thus give musical warning of the forthcoming municipal upheaval that Quicksand was scheduled to endure.
Later, his smile became crooked, the left side of his mouth slanting upward, and Quicksand got ready to stand from under.
The plan was to accomplish the downfall of the Quicksand Terror without loss to the attacking party, if possible.
He had decided that Calliope Catesby should no more wake the echoes of Quicksand with his strident whoop.
All beyond this is exaggeration, and a quicksand in which the poet too easily suffers shipwreck if he mistakes the idea of nobleness.
The other alternative is the almost unavoidable quicksand for a poet who, thrown into a vulgar world, cannot resolve to lose sight of nature.
We were all experienced in handling bogged cattle, though this quicksand was the most deceptive that I, at least, had ever witnessed.
On our arrival there was no volume of water to interfere, but it had a quicksand bottom that would bog a saddle blanket.
Knowing his temper would not be improved by soaking in the quicksand overnight, we changed our tactics.
The "pull" of this quicksand was so strong that four of us were unable to lift a steer's tail out, once it was imbedded in the sand.
The north-east coast is a region of swamps, lagoons, and quicksand rivers.
I was taken across one of the quicksand rivers in the ferry by a lovely Ainu girl of about twelve years of age.
The track was heavy in the soft sand, and the dangerous and numerous quicksand streams were enough to make a saint swear--if swearing would have done any good.
He then started for the other bar and about half way across his horses sank in the quicksand so badly that one of them fell down.
The river is not more than two feet deep, but there are a great many beds of quicksand which are dangerous to teams, and calculated to shake a wagon to pieces.
The bottom is mostly quicksandand not safe fording.
But the quicksand makes it impossible to push forward this day-level directly.
A, with the alluvial earth a, b, containing the bed of quicksand b.
It soon occurred to Caius that the two men now added to their party had either met O'Shea by appointment, or had been lying in wait for the cart, knowing that the quicksand was also waiting to engulf it.
The explanation concerning the gypsum was certainly interesting, but the nature of the quicksand was not the point which Caius had brought forward.
It became necessary after the Fair to shut off the water as was anticipated, to remove a few pipes near the Ship Channel which had broke in two by the unequal settling of the pipes in the quicksand bed through which they were laid.
Finally the transportation of the rebels stuck fast in quicksand and stopped the whole train.
Under me yawns the grave, under me lies the shoal Where the whirling eddies wait to grapple the drowning crew, And the hungry quicksand hides the bones of the ship it slew.
We laid the body down on the edge of the quicksand by the tussocks.
He told me that he was working it out a year and a half ago, and how he was working it out night after night when the boat had gone away, and he could get out near the quicksand safely.
