sand-ridge

In the afternoon the overseer dug behind the sand-ridge, and at six feet came to water, but perfectly salt.

Journals of expeditions of discovery into Central Australia, and overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound, in the years 1840-1 2004

While absorbed in his work, his companions came from the screen in haste, skipping round him and mimicking all his actions and grunting in unison with him, while making the sand-ridge to quiver with intensity of tread.

Tropic Days 2003

On the untended sand-ridge beyond the highest limit of the tidal wave pumpkins and vegetable marrows have gone on doing more than justice to themselves, some plants having lived through two seasons productively.

Last Leaves from Dunk Island 2003

After dark we crawled for three hours, reaching the top of a sand-ridge.

Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

Now, the place where we were offered the necessary accommodation consisted of an ancient plank-built tenement, which stood behind a sand-ridge that a far younger Atlantic than ours had piled up, and then, retreating, abandoned.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 4, April, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

Diagonally the vessel steered to destruction; she just cleared the sand-ridge in the centre of the river, and then went crash into the bank.

Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea Tom Bevan

For the first two miles through swamp and water and sandhill, leaving on left hand a very nice lake, and on the right some little distance off a sand-ridge running along swamp; in the distance south is timber denoting a creek which forms this swamp and lakes -- the remaining three miles of the five very stony and bad travelling.

McKinlay's Journal of Exploration in the Interior of Australia John McKinlay

Tiny looked up at him half shyly, half curiously, for if he had only been on the other side of the sand-ridge, he must have heard all she and

A Sailor's Lass Emma Leslie

Sullivan's Island, and separated from it by Breach Inlet, is a similar sand-ridge called Long Island.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866 Various

Swinging between his crutches on a low sand-ridge the cripple surveyed the whole of the beach.

The Rover 1923