Their affairs had not been going altogether smoothly of late, and the need rose in them, unworded, for stillness by blue water and the sun upon warm sand.
"The Furnace"
Rose Macaulay
And how shall we find them among the sand-hills?
"In Desert and Wilderness"
Henryk Sienkiewicz
Only children threw sand and stones at him, but he paid no attention to them.
"In Desert and Wilderness"
Henryk Sienkiewicz