Slugs are fond of this plant; a dressing once a week of sand and soot, when it begins to grow, will keep them off.
In a moist corner make up a low-lying bed of sand and peat, mostly sand, plant 9in.
The region over which the waters of the lagoon had been carried was no longer to be identified as the same, covered as it was with debris of every kind, and with a thick layer of sand and rock.
The bed of the river is sand and gravel, the water very clear, and here may be called a mountain-stream.
The bed of the creek issand and gravel, the water dispersed over the broad bed in several shallow streams.
As we advanced westward, the soil appears to be getting more sandy; and the surface rock, an erratic deposite of sand and gravel, rests here on a bed of coarse yellow and gray and very friable sandstone.
Our course north-east, over an undulating plain of sand and gravel, and at intervals the desert surface was a plain pavement of stone, of a dark slate-colour.
Sahara around has a varied aspect of trees and plain, sand and mountains.
Mixtures of sand and pebbles (unscreened gravel) may also be used if care is exercised to secure a mixture of adequate strength.
Sand and cement in the ratio of one part cement to four or five parts of sand are mixed dry, and after the brick have been rolled, is moistened to furnish water to hydrate the cement.
Deposits consisting of a natural mixture of sand andclay in which the ingredients happen to exist in about the correct relative proportions for sand-clay road surfaces are found in many localities.
The sand-clay road surface consists of a natural or artificial mixture of sand and clay, in which the amount of clay is somewhat greater than sufficient to fill the voids in the dry sand.
The travellers had not proceeded far, before they found themselves among naked and arid hills, with a soil composed of sand and clay, baked and brittle, that to all appearance had never been visited by the dews of heaven.
At nine o'clock the anchor was let go in 6 fathoms, sand and shells, one mile within the entrance, the points of which bore N.
The bottom is rocky in the outer entrance, but in the upper part seems more generally to consist of sand and shells.
You use only one part of cement, Ruth," corrected her cousin, "and two of sand andfour of gravel.
Yes, Bob, but look at the work we have contracted for already; don't forget how many loads of sand and gravel it will take to pay for that.
You agree to pay them for their labor in sand and gravel, and once you get them using concrete, they'll come back for more.
The gentleman with him, who I judged from what they said was the engineer for the railroad, seemed to be very much pleased with the kind of sand and gravel we had, and I heard him tell Mr. Brady he'd approve it for the work.
Now and then thin beds of sand and of small waterworn pebbles alternate with the finer clays.
The boulders of which it is composed are waterworn, and very various in composition, but all referable to the interior ranges; a few thin beds of sand and of a clay resembling pipe-clay, are interposed between the strata of conglomerate.
Here, too, was the first spot where the eye was gladdened by the sight of a piece of grass, instead of sand and shingle.
At first I was obliged to cross a heap of sand and rubbish; for we have to go downwards towards the entrance, which is so low and narrow that we cannot always stand upright.
The streets of Larnaka are unpaved, so that we were obliged literally to wade more than ankle-deep in sand and dust.
The flat, broad valleys, composed of sand and clay, of both the Tocantins and its Araguay branch are overlooked by steep bluffs.
The great plains of the earth's surface are due to this deposit of gravel, sand and loam.
The soil should contain a good proportion of sand and be enriched with well-rotted manure.
Cyclamens may be grown from seed sown in April or September in soil containing a large proportion of sand and leafmold.
These cuttings may be taken from a plant at any time through the fall or winter, rooted in sand and potted up, to be held in pots until the planting out time in the spring, usually in April, or any time when the ground is ready to handle.
The soil best suited to the cyclamen is one containing two parts leafmold, one part each of sand and loam.
If burdocks will grow, something else will grow; or if nothing else will grow, then I prefer burdocks to sand and rubbish.
And meanwhile I go on and on, in the midst of sand and barrenness.
And the sand--my sand and barrenness--almost flushed consciously in its wide, mysterious magnitude.
To-day when I walked over my sand and barrenness I felt Infinite Grief.
My life is of the gray of sand and barrenness, and consists of Mary MacLane, the longing for Happiness, and the memory of the anemone lady.
The upper part of the geological section thus exposed is somewhat masked by a downfall of sand and loam, and the lower part is also hidden by the same materials.
What becomes of this enormous quantity of sand and clay, equal to a cubic mile in a little over a century, as it is swept into the waters of the Gulf of Mexico?
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sand and" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
