1 They had evidently spent the night under the trees in someone's front yard, for a sand and gravel driveway stretched out before her, winding away under an avenue of cedars.
2 If she could only be rid of her tight stays, the collar that choked her and the slippers still full of sand and gravel that blistered her feet.
3 The inside of the store was almost like Bullard's store in Jonesboro, except that there were no loungers about the roaring red-hot stove, whittling and spitting streams of tobacco juice at the sand boxes.
4 & Surgeon, gilt on black sand.
5 There is more sand there than you would use in twenty years as a substitute for blotting paper.
6 Sometimes they are polished with soapstone and sand, till they shine within like silver punch-bowls.
7 Before the mouths of the holes were little patches of sand and gravel, scratched up, we supposed, from a long way below the surface.
8 Through January and February I went to the river with the Harlings on clear nights, and we skated up to the big island and made bonfires on the frozen sand.
9 When I came upon the Marshalls' delivery horse, tied in the shade, the girls had already taken their baskets and gone down the east road which wound through the sand and scrub.
10 I slid down into the soft sand beside her and asked her what was the matter.
11 While she talked, I lay back in the hot sand and looked up at the blue sky between the flat bouquets of elder.
12 You speak with about as little reflection as we might expect from one of those children down there playing in the sand.
13 Edna looked at her feet, and noticed the sand and slime between her brown toes.
14 He shoveled black sand into an iron receptacle and pounded it tight and set it aside to harden; then it would be taken out, and molten iron poured into it.
15 Shove in the canoe nigher to the land, Uncas; this sand will take a stamp as easily as the butter of the Jarmans on the Mohawk.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 20