One layer of sand sliding over the other.

It might have been the wind rising again; it might also have been the hiss of sand sliding under an incautious footfall.

With my feet sinking to the ankles with every step I took and the sand sliding under me, and fighting for every inch of progress, it was just as bad, or worse, than I had thought it would prove to be.

Nothing grew here; the wind blew fitfully, raising an intermittent hiss from sand sliding over rock.

I saw this as if it were sand sliding through the narrow center of an hourglass.

And now you know, sauromician-that-was, that power is sand sliding through your hands.

Rakatan's horizon line broke and rippled, and all color washed out of the screen like sand sliding between two plates of glass.

There came the sound of sand sliding behind him.

"I had a home right here," he said, pointing to a placid stretch of sand gently sliding toward the Bay of Bengal.

I dragged myself out of it, feeling sand sliding beneath bare feet.