161 examples of quicksand in sentences

Quicksand, then, was a joke,but he could not pause for this added bewilderment.

Beds of white quicksand, treacherous and fatal and dreaded by every rider of the open country could be seen, occasionally, through openings in the trees showing the bed of the river itself.

he exclaimed aloud, "I wonder if Skinny'll remember about that upper crossin' bein' dang'rous with quicksand after the rainGuess he did," he finished as the two riders turned to the right toward the lower and more distant river ford and disappeared among the willows and cottonwood trees that fringed the Cimarron.

"The quicksand!"

She remembered reading that one caught in the quicksand by his struggles only hastened his own destruction.

He was torn between blind unreasoning anger at the quicksand and pity for the struggling horse.

Where's Skinny?" In a few words, while the Ramblin' Kid sat silently on the back of Captain Jack, Carolyn June told of the ride across the river; the meeting with Pedro and the message he brought that the cattle were out and some had been killed by lightning; of sending Skinny with the Mexican to help with the steers; of her return alone toward the ranch, the struggle in the quicksand and the death of the horse she had been riding.

Ophelia cried, shuddering when she heard of Carolyn June's narrow escape from the quicksand.

The thing they did not know was that his heart was torn by memory of the agony of Old Blue in the quicksand and his mind tortured by the picture of dumb suffering a bullet from his own gun had, that morning, mercifully ended.

At the upper crossing on almost the same spot where he had lifted Carolyn June from the quicksand to the solid ground of the meadow land, the Ramblin' Kid stopped Captain Jack.

Gently flicking the rope toward him he tightened the loop about the crown of the hat and drew it to the edge of the quicksand.

We soon found the tracks of Blake's party, which led up the moraine, and carried us over quicksand and through glacial streams, icy cold.

When we had got the stern of the vessel into the sand we discovered that we had not accomplished much, for the said sand being very loose, almost of the character of quicksand, and the sea running high, the stern kept sinking almost as rapidly as when it had nothing but water below it.

We fall into a quicksand.

We were off the path, and the first step in any direction might lead us into another quicksand, worse perhaps than that from which we had just extricated ourselves.

The Baboo and his party had found the poor brute firmly imbedded in a quicksand.

One of the strangest adventures that the Maharajah had was when, returning to camp one evening, he was informed that one of his largest and best elephants, "Kennedy", had got stuck in quicksand.

I couldn't do anything but stand back and trust the real woman of you to find out what a quicksand you were building your castle on.

I had no more time to be scared, or to regret my past sins, than has a man in a quicksand.

Quicksand; the way of life in the slums, by Mary Simkhovitch & Elizabeth Ogg.

How shun this quicksand?

But it was only the glimmer of an ignis fatuus, which led me into a quicksand and snuffed itself out in a fog.

" "His lust for gambling was a bottomless quicksand, which no possible amount of winning could ever have satiated.

[Note 15: All words meaning practically the same thing, viz., bog, quagmire, swamp, quicksand, etc., some of them evidently obsolete, as they are not found in modern Spanish dictionaries.

Some fixturescomparatively fixturesof course there were, who gave to our moving quicksand-like society some degree of cohesion.

161 examples of  quicksand  in sentences