Dunk saw the sands wash over Egg, burying him as he opened his mouth to shout.
The volume is about 4000 m3 or 880,000 gallons, depending on how much sand the sea washes in.
Torin shouted a wordless warning, then the rushing sand knocked him off his feet and washed over him.
Now, at the next storm, still more sand would wash across, and still more dirt would be cut away from the underside.
Where the fine grit and sand had washed off the pavement and made a little sandbar, she could see the tracks of mud-and-snow tires.
They open themselves to the desert: come, sand, wash us in aridity.
Auriferous sands, you see, washed down from the mountains.
Much of this migration is accomplished in storms like the latest one, when sand washes across the island from sea to sound.
Daytona Beach lost about six feet of width, but some sand has washed back in.
Other Florida lighthouse had to abandoned or moved when the sand around their foundations washed away.