As the sands of the day trickled down toward dusk, Conan found a place suitable to stay the night.
The hourglass was huge, red sand was trickling from the upper cone into the lower.
The gemsbok must have been digging in the river bed, but sand had trickled into the hole, almost filling it.
He caught the Black Wind again and continued the journey, knowing the sand in the hourglass was trickling away far too fast.
"Rachel and I have been best friends since second grade," I said, letting the sand trickle through my fingers.
Once more the sand trickled from top to bottom, at normal velocity.
The sand was still trickling down, just as it had been the last time Richard had seen the thing.
When her eyes opened again, Luci was gone, and the sands trickled through the glass again.
Even under the cupped bowl of her hands the sand trickled into her face, and she sneezed.
In the heart of the Potent Voyager fine sand had been trickling into a carefully designed cup for several hours.