sandy

• The soil should be sandy, and coal ashes, or better still, old plastering or lime rubbish, should be added. —  Gardening Indoors and Under Glass A Practical Guide to the Planting, Care and Propagation of House Plants, and to the Construction and Management of Hotbed, Coldframe and Small Greenhouse
• It is remarkable that the soil of this speck of vegetable existence is entirely sandy, and all the water comes out of the sand. —  Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846
• Pitched our camp amidst the sandy waste late at night. —  Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846
• In the year '44 they made an inroad upon the sandy wastes of the Shânbah bandits; days and months they pursued the brigand tribe over the trackless regions of sand; and during this expedition they neither tasted food, nor drank a drop of water, for seven days!--still keeping up a running fight, pursuing and butchering the Shânbah, who all disappeared at last, concealed under heaps of sand. —  Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846
• Country about here is mostly sandy, and in hollow flats. —  Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846

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