Sentence examples for upon the sand from inspiring English sources
Moral: Thou shalt not build thy house, nor yet thy faith, upon the sand.
Give our meteorologist and his marriage a second chance in all the wreckage; give him a love that holds jellyfish strewn upon the sand like scarves.
She's frisky and feisty, an embodiment of the descriptions the nuns sing about Maria: a will-o'-the wisp, a moonbeam and a wave upon the sand.
They hesitated at his smile, Wondering what it seemed to say To lovers who a little while Before had thought to understand, By violence upon the sand, The only way that could be known To make a world their own.
On the brink of her fame, a tiger lily contemptuous of the odds, she gloated: Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand: Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand!
The objective of the present research is the critical analysis of test results, dedicated to the effect of ion-beam irradiation conditions upon the sand particle erosion resistance of refractory alloys.
"The Reflections in the water were more beautiful than the sky itself, purple waves brighter than precious stones for ever melting away upon the sands.
When they reached the wide-stretching host of the Achaeans, they drew the vessel ashore, high and dry upon the sands, set her strong props beneath her, and went their ways to their own tents and ships.
It was a pretty sight to see as we walked upon the sands when the tide was low perhaps a hundred people bathing about ¼ of a mile distant from us and we had delightful walks after the heat of the day was passed away," the poet's sister records in The Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth, edited by Marion Moorman (Oxford).
Built upon the sands of the Mojave Desert just outside of Las Vegas is Further Future, a visionary gathering of imaginative people over three days from April 29th to May 1st of 2016.
As Gregoras commented, "if [the Byzantines] had remained masters of the seas, as they had been, then the Latins would not have grown so arrogant, nor would the Turks ever have gazed upon the sands of the [Aegean] sea, nor would we have to pay to everyone tribute every year".
