sea-sands

Now when Miriam heard his speech and the verse he made, she laughed and smilingly said, O my lord Nur al-Din, abide in thy place and I will keep thee from their ill grace, though they be as the sea-sands in number.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

I am so amorously given, [4768] you may sooner number the sea-sands, and snow falling from the skies, than my several loves.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Ancient beaches are met with whose pebbles are like those found on modern shores; the hardened sea-sands of the oldest epochs show ripple-marks, such as may now be found on every sandy coast; nay, more, the pits left by ancient rain-drops prove that even in the very earliest ages, the “bow in the clouds” must have adorned the palaeozoic firmament.

Essays 2007

Tied to a stake on the sea-sands she stood; and first she heard, and then she saw, the white roarin 'o' the tide.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 405, December 19, 1829 Various

But he who hunts for them on the rock-ribbed hills of New Hampshire or the sea-sands of Florida is doing a foolish thing -- although even there he may conceivably pick up one that has been dropped by accident.

A Librarian's Open Shelf Arthur E. Bostwick

Thus the historian imbibed naturally the spirit of the tale-teller, as he was driven to embellish his history with the romantic legend -- the awful superstition -- the gossipy anecdote -- which yet characterize the stories of the popular and oral fictionist in the bazaars of the Mussulman, or on the sea-sands of Sicily.

Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life

Somewhere yet, I was sure, Imogen's mountains lift their chill summits into heaven; over haunted sea-sands Ariel flits; at his webbed casement next the stars Faust covets youth, till the last trump shall ring him out of dream.

Henry Brocken His Travels and Adventures in the Rich, Strange, Scarce-Imaginable Regions of Romance Walter De la Mare 1914

Captain Lancaster, in his voyage20 in 1601, narrates that on the sea-sands of the Island of Sombrero, in the East Indies, he “found a small twig growing up like a young tree, and on offering to pluck it up it shrinks down to the ground, and sinks, unless held very hard.

Chapter V 1909

Where you were careful to leave only the village blacksmith under his spreading chestnut-tree, or the innkeeper and his wife, for the sake of future travelers, let a century or two pass, and their descendants would be as the sea-sands for multitude; they would have founded a power, and be thundering down on an empire-smashing raid in Persia or China or

The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 Kenneth Morris 1908

The tall, black city, and the numbers and movement and noise of so many folk, made a new world for me, after the moorland braes, the sea-sands and the still countrysides that I had frequented up to then.

David Balfour, a sequel to Kidnapped. 1893