Sentence examples for pillar of sand from inspiring English sources

Among books consulted were "Cadillac Desert", by Marc Reisner (Penguin, 1987); "Last Oasis" and "Pillar of Sand", by Sandra Postel (Norton, 1997 and 1999 respectively); and "Silenced Rivers" by Patrick McCully (Zed Books, 2001).

Sandra Postel, author of "Pillar of Sand", a book about irrigation, maintains that, with the single exception of Egypt, no civilisation based on irrigation has survived for long, either because the water has run out, or because of silt, or because of salinisation.Yet it is modern engineering that has made possible irrigation disasters on a massive scale.

"A pillar of salt?

Take it with a pillar of salt.

Down a dark wood-shuttered corridor, a mound of sand fills the next gallery, partially submerging the white pillars of the space.

Consider a heap of sand.

Weight of sand.

Density of sand.

Porosity of sand.

Castles Made of Sand.

Speaking of sand niggers.