Daniel turned around and saw solid land behind him, like a lake of mud.
You may also sink to your armpits through what looks like solid land but is actually a crust of peat.
Those who walk across at night, with Indian guides tapping a steel pole on the sparkling, groaning ice, are usually relieved to hit solid land.
They encamp on the island, they light their fires,Glad to be back on solid land, weary — thenWhale dives to the bottom, and all the men drown.
The proposed casinos, Browner said, "were supposed to be in the water because the state didn't want them on the solid land".
Mr. Lipman is one of several success stories — a Democrat, newly out of work after the midterm elections, who has found a solid landing pad on Capitol Hill.
The relief of feeling solid land beneath their feet, and the desire to show some scientific purpose to their journey, had set them to collecting samples.
As the bubble is suspended, somewhat unconvincingly, from a length of wire, you'd all be pulled up off the ground and out away from solid land.
One danger that appears to have been given little consideration in official disaster estimates is "soil liquefaction," whereby intense vibrations release underground water, instantly turning what had once appeared to be solid land into oozing, perilous mud.
He felt that what he had always before considered the solid land of veritable reality, was now being audaciously encroached upon by bannered armies of hooded phantoms, disembarking in his soul, as from flotillas of specter-boats.
