quicksands

(Acts 27: 17) in the Revised Version in place of "quicksands" in the Authorized Version.

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Good fun, though the second volume flails around in the treacherous quicksands of exposition and info-dump a bit.

Brian Ruckley · What I’ve Been Reading

A co-production between the Dukes and the Theatre By The Lake in Keswick, Zosia Wand's new play uses the landscape of Morecambe Bay and its famously treacherous sands to tell a story of love both lost and found, and of the secrets that become buried and then rise to the surface in the quicksands of everyday family life.

This week's new theatre

But even at first glance, commissioner Hogan-Howe must see the quicksands he's stumbling into, pursuing newspaper sources where the public isn't just interested, but incensed.

The Met is foolish to hound the Guardian | Observer editorial

Mary Matalin and Wayne Barrett sitting in for Arianna until her return in two weeks focus on two big issues: first, after the quicksands of Iraq and Afghanistan, can America intervene militarily in the Libyan civil war in a proportionate and successful way?

HuffPost Radio: Both Sides Now w/ Huffington and Matalin: The Fog of Wars, Education in America, Palin in Israel

This illustrates the broader point that the skills necessary to stay afloat in the regulatory quicksands of China's not-nearly-a-market economy are not conducive to satisfying the nit-pickiness of Western investors.

China's Square Peg vs. The West's Round Hole

Serious doubts, for a start, exist as to whether the England management are doing more than leading the squad ever deeper into the quicksands of mediocrity.

Australia underline the many failings of Martin Johnson's England set-up

Religious leaders who live with HIV and AIDS are often the most persuasive advocates, able to navigate moral quicksands with skill and reach out with compassion to those in need.

Katherine Marshall: World AIDS Day: A Conversation From Uganda With Gideon Byamugisha

I know we have a faithful and tried Pilot, a Crew whom other days have inured to perils and dangers, quicksands and wrecks, and passengers some, of whom, at least, I can affirm, they will be landed safely at our next Post -- Commencement -- but enough -- enough!!

Letter from Young John Allen to Mollie Houston,January 28, 1857

There were wagons and tents clustered all round the ford, and crowds of people making tremendous work of floating their vehicles and goods across on rafts and flatboats; the river hereabouts was quite swift, and about a quarter of a mile across through sandbars and quicksands.

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