sand-bed

With a gasp she felt herself falling straight down through a swirling vortex of sensation, to the very sand-bed of the stream.

The Dragon Painter Mary McNeil Fenollosa

Now she was sitting upright (the sand-bed had suddenly become the floor of her little room), her hands pressing a heart that was trying to escape, her young eyes straining through the darkness to see, -- ah!

The Dragon Painter Mary McNeil Fenollosa

The moment the spiral reaches a loose sand-bed, it sweeps into its vortex all the particles of grit which it can hold.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864 Various

He partitioned off the sand-bed into rows with cardboard between them.

The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. Ellen Eddy Shaw

The city roofs beneath them hurried off to the edge of the world like ripples left in the gray sand-bed of a stream.

The Dragon Painter Mary McNeil Fenollosa

At four o'clock, satisfied that no useful purpose could be effected by going farther up the stream, we stopped at a collection of huts called Las Sandías, -- not inappropriately, for the whole sloping bank of the river, which here appeared to be little better than a barren sand-bed, was covered, for a quarter of a mile, with a luxuriant crop of water - and musk-melons, now in their perfection.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860 Various

Mr. Ruffin gives an instance of the drying up of a well half a mile distant, by cutting a deep drain into this sand-bed, and thus lowering its water-line.

Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles Henry Flagg French

They moved down the embankment side by side to the sand-bed close to the stream, each of the three carrying a rifle tucked close to the side.

A Man Four-Square William MacLeod Raine 1912

I had seen already how the wagon stuck in a big river's sand-bed.

Cinderella in the South Twenty-Five South African Tales Arthur Shearly Cripps 1910

One of the most mysterious features connected with this island is the formation of a sand-bed, when the entire place is free from sand otherwise.

Africa and African Methodism. Alfred Lee Ridgel 1896