The moon rose over the low sandhillsbefore the District Officer, bruised and broken by the verdict of past India on the present, rode back to the sessions bungalow, where he meant to pass the night.
And if you'll come over there," he pointed to the low sandhills as he spoke, "this evening.
Suddenly, our attention was drawn to the unusual appearance of the sandhills to the north of us, along the river.
Several hundred yards southeast were the low sandhills of the Canadian, whose wide expanse of level sand was more than a mile away.
Before we could reach the Canadian the Indians had vanished in the sandhills of White Deer Creek.
Behind some very low scattered sandhills that form it, fronting a mangrove flat, we beheld great numbers of dead turtles, that seemed to have repaired thither of their own accord to die.
They are of a formation totally different, being of a very coarse gritty yellow sandstone, in many places quite honeycombed, with some low sandhills superimposed.
North of this patch the land changes its appearance; the bare sandhills cease, and a steep-sided down, 300 feet high, faces the coastline.
The sides of the high lands look fertile over the sandhills of the bay; but through a spy-glass I found that they had a brown arid appearance and were destitute of timber.
A most singular ridge of very white sandhills lay a quarter of a mile to the eastward.
On the south-west point of the latter are some sandhills 30 feet high; and on that side also is a dense scrub, in which the mutton birds burrow, so that it forms rather troublesome walking.
As we ran along to the northward, the coast was lined with sandhills very partially dotted with vegetation.
The most beautiful place that I know on it is at the mouth of the Gweebarra River where it flows out due west between a line of sandhills which shine dazzling white in the sun against the immensity of blue.
Portrush ends your journey if you be a golfer; but dearer to me than the links at Portrush are the sandhills beyond Portstewart and the long strand at the entrance to Lough Foyle--ten miles of a stretch, but the Bann's outflow divides it.
No doubt it was buried deep in one of the many sandhills which these terrific winds leave behind them.
That day and on several others one hundred and thirty degrees was reached, and even that temperature was exceeded now and then over sandhills and plains which quivered in the heat.
The cavalry, however, held their position among the sandhills and easily defeated a feeble attempt to turn their right.
The rapidity of their advance had exhausted the Soudanese, and Lewis ordered Nason to halt under cover of the sandhills for a few minutes, so that the soldiers might get their breath before the final effort.
The other two squadrons had now returned, and the whole force dismounted, and, taking up a position among the sandhills near the mouth of the defile, opened fire with their carbines.
Nor was it long before we saw the imposing array of infantry topping the sandhills near Surgham and flooding out into the plain which lay between them and the city.
About noon the land is reported to the eastward, a low, yellowish land, with no rocky margin, but a few sandhills in the neighborhood of Krasnovodsk.
The major tells me that the engineers experienced immense difficulty in fixing the sandhills on this part of the railway.
But another invasion, much more modern, is to be feared, that of the sands, now that the saksaouls intended to bring the sandhills to a standstill, have almost completely disappeared.
As soon as this region of sandhills had been passed we were again on the level plain on which the rails had been laid so easily.
Lewis] Hot June sunshine flooded the sandhills on the afternoon of my entry into the encampment, which, by the way, was made strategetically from the rear.
A sunset of rare beauty was reddening the sandhills when I returned to the Gypsyry on the South Shore.
The moth is out in July and August, and is chiefly found on sandhillsby the sea.
It chiefly affects heaths, but it is also found in woods, and on sandhills by the sea, as in Norfolk.
Although previously taken in the Isle of Portland, the earliest published record was that in the Zoologist for 1849 of a specimen taken on the sandhills at Exmouth, late in September.
The moth is on the wing from late July to early September, and is to be found on all the larger tracts of sandhills on the east coast from Suffolk northwards, and on the coasts of Cheshire and Lancashire.
Caterpillars, too, were plentiful on the coast sandhills of Kent, Cheshire, and Lancashire, and also in the Eastern Counties.
In a few miles cultivation became more rare; sandhills took the place of the level fields, and only here and there in the hollows were patches of cultivated ground.
We'll light a big blaze when we find him, and another on this edge of the sandhills in case you don't see the first.
They rode back very slowly to the northern edge of the sandhills and lighted their two signal fires.
The long low sandhills on the shore show up plainly, and nearer there are countless wrecks which have been piled up on this desolate coast.
For two miles I followed through thesandhills before I dared to use my rifle.
At last we made out the village, encamped in the sandhills south of the South Platte River at Summit Springs.
I told him we had still forty miles of sandhills to cross, and advised an easier gait.
Some of the Indian hunters had spied the soldiers and notified the camp, but General Reynolds, coming from the south, had driven all the Indians on foot and all the squaws and children toward the sandhills on the north.
I impressed on the general the necessity of keeping in the ravine of the sandhills so as to be out of sight of the Indians.
There, whenever the wind blew, the great sandhills were on the move, covering up and at the same time laying bare; and when a sand storm came on he could lose his tracks half an hour after they were made.
From the far north pass, where it came down from Wild Rose, to where Blackwater sent up its thin smoke, the trail crept like a serpent among the sandhills and washes, a long tenuous line through the Sink.
He seemed to be running somewhere amid sandhills which continually shifted and danced about him as he ran, so that he could not tell which way he went.
I stood up myself, but lingered behind him, scanning the sandhills to the east.
That part of the beach was long and flat, and excellent walking when the tide was down; a little cressy burn flowed over it in one place to the sea; and the sandhills ran along the head of it like the rampart of a town.
But it is truly amazing," she said, as she gazed round at the sandhills and the spit, at the tumbling waves beyond, and the unruffled waters of the lake.
Presently they came on the shallow rounded end of the lake, with higher sandhills beyond it, which ran along both sides of the island further than they could see.
The youngsters, who had found walking tiring, or perhaps tiresome, found no fatigue in scrambling to the tops of sandhills and sliding down the smooth soft sides with shouts and shrieks of laughter.
And when he called to her to look the other way she watched with amazement sandhills of size melt away before her eyes and re-form themselves in quite different places.
So he tumbled overboard on to the new raft and paddled to the nearer shore, and set off for a brisk walk over the sandhills and along the beach, in search of a more hopeful frame of mind.
Sandhills are good for play-time, but you'd miss the ship when bed-time came.
For instance,--the space he wished his house to occupy between the sandhills was quite twelve feet in width, and his planks ran mostly to six or eight feet only.
It shook their protecting sandhills and made their house shiver right down to the buried cross-pieces of its pillars.
In a tiny dent in the long sweep of the curve, made by the sandhills running almost down to the water, were half a dozen dark objects lying on the dry sand and looking for all the world like dead bodies.
The walls were of stout boards backed up against the sandhills, with new sandhills thrown up in the intervening spaces, and inside they were draped with more crimson velvet, of which they had a large supply.
The boat ran softly up the beach again, the sailors carried out Avice and the children, and they all struck up through the sandhills to the house.
When you see smoke among the sandhills send off your boat.
Sandhills and stony hummocks floated like a mirage in quivering, reflected light.
Having no artillery to oppose these guns, and being unable to silence them by the battery on the opposite bank, the only hope of thrashing the enemy lay in carrying the sandhills by storm.
The deadly fire from the sandhills played havoc with their ranks, and they were mowed down in hundreds.
These succumbed in a few minutes, and the guns no longer being able to do damage by reason of the enemy being directly under their muzzles, the reinforcements swarmed up the slanting slope of the sandhills with cries of victory.
The silver sandhills lay in loops and chains round the curve of the blue bay, and all along them flocks of gaily coloured kites hovered and fluttered and sprang.
When the kite fell, it lay unhurt on one of the soft sandhills that ringed the bay; but no sign of the child was to be seen.
I then observed that the man was not alone, but that from all the sandhills a line of turbaned heads was gazing down upon us.
Our camp lay before us, and no sound reached our ears save the dull murmur of the voices of our companions and the occasional shrill cry of a jackal among the sandhills around us.
A roof through a notch between two sandhills beyond a long range of them, was seen, set high and half hidden by the spreading limbs of pines.
It affects cliffs and sandhills by the sea, rough places on chalk slopes, and sometimes the moths fly up in numbers as we walk over the herbage in such spots.
It occurs in meadows, on heaths, and on sandhills by the sea, in most of the southern and eastern counties of England, but is only rarely seen northwards, and has not been recorded from other parts of the British Isles.
The moth affects hedgerows, banks, bushy places on rough sloping ground, and sandhills by the sea.
Some of the horses were got ashore, and a party of knights mounted and rode over the sandhills towards Sluys.
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