It was filled halfway to the top with fine dark sand.

Halfway between the town and the airport there is a small beach of dark sand.

The dark sand showed his footprints where he went, and whispered a little under his step.

Instantly the couple sprang off the pier and onto the dark sand.

Without any order from her mind, Tamisan's right hand went now to the blue bowl with its dark blue sand.

She did not reply and Julius set his jaw in anger, staring out over the dark sand.

Behind her the waves broke white on the dark sand.

The region is also known for its darker, more volcanic sand.

It was a bunker, stone or concrete, buried in drifts of the dark sand.

Things were hatching out of the dark damp sand, growing, spinning.