1 The moist hungry earth, waiting upturned for the cotton seeds, showed pinkish on the sandy tops of furrows, vermilion and scarlet and maroon where shadows lay along the sides of the trenches.
2 His faded blue eyes looked at her from under sandy lashes without surprise.
3 His sandy brows went up in astonishment.
4 She wanted to laugh at the gratified importance in Raymie's half-shut eyes; she wanted to weep over the meek ambitiousness which clouded like an aura his pale face, flap ears, and sandy pompadour.
5 It was the entrance to a Chippewa Indian reservation, a sandy settlement among Norway pines on the shore of a huge snow-glaring lake.
6 The pink bee-bush stood tall along the sandy roadsides, and the cone-flowers and rose mallow grew everywhere.
7 His wife stood smiling and waving, the boys shouting, as he disappeared in the old rockaway down the sandy road.
8 The wind had fallen, and the waves were already rolling on the sandy beach beneath him, in a more regular and tempered succession.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 19 9 With care and patience, however, they succeeded in clambering after the scout, until they reached the sandy shore of the Horican.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 20 10 A very heavy mat of sandy hair, in a decidedly tousled condition, and a beard of some days' growth, gave the worthy man an appearance, to say the least, not particularly prepossessing.
11 Beyond the boundaries of the plantation, George had noticed a dry, sandy knoll, shaded by a few trees; there they made the grave.
12 His short-cropped hair might have been a mere continuation of the sandy freckles on his forehead and face.
13 A pale, taper-faced man with sandy whiskers rose up from a chair by the fire as we entered.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In IX. The Adventure of The Resident Patient 14 He was of a sickly colour, and his thin, sandy hair seemed to bristle up with the intensity of his emotion.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In IX. The Adventure of The Resident Patient 15 Holmes and I walked along the broad, sandy road inhaling the fresh morning air and rejoicing in the music of the birds and the fresh breath of the spring.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In IV. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SOLITARY CYCLIST