The descent was a brief one, and soon they had crossed the sands and were strolling along the road in the direction of the manor.
It was quite a pretty scene, this bright June morning, down on the little stretch of sands which Hetherford dignified by the name of "The Beach.
The sweet stillness held its sway o'er land and sea, its perfect harmony emphasized by the soft lapping of the waves against the shadowysands below.
The arms were gone, but the great face remained almost in its entirety staring away across the sands and the sea.
The boat lay where it had been pulled up, the tide now coming in and legions of birds were flitting and blowing about and stalking on the sands as far as eye could reach.
Bompard looked on apathetically and La Touche stood with his hands in his pockets as the girl fished the things out one by one, placing them, some on the sands and some on the thwarts of the boat.
Yet here, with the firm sands under her feet and the wind blowing in her face, reality, instead of hurting her as it had done in the boat on awakening yesterday morning, soothed her and reassured her.
Out there where the waves were coming in and at the limit of the sands rocks were uncovered, shaggy, black rocks that seemed covered with fur.
But he did not go to it, he kept on always in view, exploring the rocks and the sands and stopping now and then as if to look back.
The louder cry of a gull outside seemed hailing Bompard, the rustle of a rabbit on the sands seemed the coming of La Touche, the sound of the sea spoke of them, the boat seemed only waiting for them to launch it.
I will not pour water on the sands to make an ocean," he answered.
Ask wherefore Fortune's vile caprice should balk His panther spring across the foaming salt, From martial sands to the cliffs of pallid chalk!
So bright were its beams, that Marion did not need any other light to show her the stealing sands of her hour-glass, as they numbered the prolonged hours of her husband's stay.
But," said he, "he shall see the honor of the Cummin, emblazoned in blood on the sands of the Forth!
We passed through the deep sands of False Bay, and after that gradually ascended, getting among brushwood and young trees; but we saw no signs of cultivation, nor did we pass one house after we had left False Bay astern of us.
As he stepped from the pass into the plain the sands began to move, as if they were alive.
You remember how we saw the coast-guards flash their lights here and there, as they searched the sandsfor me?
Ye've less than that,' says Lancy back to him, 'if ye go with me to the sands first.
You did not take a horse, but, getting a musket, you walked the sands hard to Theddlethorpe.
Before, however, they could set out, a guide for the sands was necessary; and for that purpose they engaged an old Targee, who professed to know every part of the track.
This course was over sands skirted with date trees, the ground strewed with fragments of calcareous crust, with a vitreous surface from exposure to the weather.
This wind, which passes over thesands of Africa, would be almost insupportable, were it not for the sea breezes.
The parties assemble on thesands in the dusk of the evening, when a number of young men and women range themselves side by side, and dance to the sound of drums, to which they keep good time.
The sun shone out of the sky like a blazing ball of fire, and the sands were hot and blinding.
Now, as the sun rose higher and the air above the sands began to shimmer in the heat, they tumbled out of their bunks in the little cabin of the motor boat and, after invigorating baths in the Gulf, began preparations for breakfast.
The former has yellow sands and brackish water, full of magnesia and lime, which blacken the front teeth; the latter sweet water and black shingles.
In former days, when winds and waves were high, we landed on the sands near the dark grey Castillo de la Luz, in the Port of Light.
For Wine that's Wine to-day may change and be Marah before to-morrow's Sands have run.
The sands of Pactolus, the golden fleece conquered by the Argonauts, the gold of Ophir, the fable of King Midas, all tend to show the eastern origin of gold.
Before the arrival of the Spaniards the Indians had gathered from the river sands large quantities of gold in Peru, Chili, and along the whole western coast of South America.
Stories were told of men who, in the summer of 1899, had taken hundreds of dollars in gold dust from the beach sands by the crudest methods, and thousands of men were now flocking into the camp for the purpose of doing beach mining.
Here they landed during the last days of September, amid falling snow, bleak winds and boiling surf, upon the sands of the most inhospitable beach in all that dreary Northland.
The sands were clean but wet, and if we were thankful for a stout canvas cover over our heads we would have also been glad of a dry place under foot.
The water was cutting a channel in the sands where it empties into the bay.
Along the river's edge and the beach near by many were digging and panning in the sands searching for "colors.
The waters bringing the gold to the beach could not, in one season, replenish and leave the sands as rich as they had been after long years, perhaps ages of action, and blame could not rightly be attached to any one.
Five long and terrible years of the struggle of the Revolution were yet to come, and the sands of Old Monmouth were again and again to be dyed by the blood of fallen men.
Across the sandshe could see eddies in the heated air, and he felt as if he were breathing the blasts from an oven.
Julia, why, you won't know yourself strolling on the sandswith a parasol while your poor delicate husband is toiling and moiling away in the dingy city.
The farmhouse where they boarded stood near a pond formed by the rushing in of the sea during some change in the sands of the beach, so here was still another water playmate for Jewel.
Before his time, forest-making had here been deemed impossible; pine seeds planted in the lax hold of these sands had hitherto been unable even to take root, against the unbroken sweep of the winds.
Its miserliness is deep-set: artesian wells sunk a thousand feet through its dull grey sandsbring up only a brackish yellow water; a precarious rye and barley grow grudgingly.
Surely the Angel-of-Death must spread his wings over it at all times, since bitter battle has been fought on it again and again, and its sun-saturated sands have been sodden again and again with the blood of many men.
They encamped opposite and within sight of each other on the old battle-field, with the river Saraswati, which was soon to lose itself in the desert sands beyond, running between the opposing armies.
About the false dawning, when even the noise of revelry in the opposite camp had quieted down to sleep, the Mahomedan army forded the river in silence, and drew up in order on the sands beyond.
At last, the sands were crossed, and the boat was once more ploughing her way through the seas, which rolled in towards the shore with greater regularity than those we had just passed.
Between that and Beachy Head they lie very close; but from Dungeness to the North Foreland they almost touch each other, every part of the Goodwin Sands being covered by them.
They are built to enable the pilots or boatmen to take a survey of the roadstead and the sands beyond, that they may see any vessel requiring their assistance.
She stooped and picking up the fish, walked across the sands to him.
Harris seemed to belong nowhere in particular, yet knew each trail of the Kootenai and Columbia country, knew each drift where the yellow sands were found--each mine where the silver hunt paid best returns.
The city lasted only for about thirty years, and the sands of the desert then began to close over its fallen greatness.
What could an Arab have accomplished with nothing but desert sands to work with?
The Cape sandsare a vast water filter and strain out of the streams all sediment.
From the sands of White Horse Beach to those of the Spit in Plymouth harbor there is no place where that storm-tossed shallop might have made a landing with any hope of safety.
At such times it roars over the beach and the breakwater and drowns the white sands that have kept the hands of its summer tides apart.
