It was a lonely nook, where, in bygone days, a number of the firs had been cut down, and a sandpit, or rather sand-pits had been formed.
"The Star-Gazers"
George Manville Fenn
The sandy track along which they were passing-it could hardly be called a road-ended abruptly in a tiny open space with a grove of trees upon one side and a sandpit on the other.
"East of the Shadows"
Mrs. Hubert Barclay
Near the outer end of the Hackney Road is a park of 217 acres, fenced in, not by railings, but by a wooden paling, and containing plenty of greensward, trees, a lake for bathers, flower beds with the flowers arranged carefully in patterns by the admired cockney art of carpet gardening and a sandpit, imported from the seaside for the delight of the children, but speedily deserted on its becoming a natural vermin preserve for all the petty fauna of Kingsland, Hackney and Hoxton.
"Candida"
George Bernard Shaw