Our plants grew well in this also, but on a sandier soil, where the water could not rise so high, it might happen that they would not.
"Lessons on Soil"
E. J. Russell
The excavation was about 10 feet deep, and in its face, in a band of softer and sandier earth than the rest of the bank, about a foot below the surface of the ground, these Mynas had bored innumerable holes.
"The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1"
Allan O. Hume
In fact, the Castle was not a building of any kind, but a hamlet; a small collection of houses-a somewhat scattered collection, it must be owned,-such as, on the bleaker and sandier parts of Cape Cod, is distinguished by the name of village.
"The Foot-path Way"
Bradford Torrey