Sheryl watched him shift sand from one hand to the other.

Nor- ton hastily shifted sand and faded out of contemporary view.

Norton hastily shifted sand and faded out of contemporary view.

The tides and currents of the river frequently shift mud and sand in the harbour.

Her keel and hull timbers were visible from time to time when high winds shifted sand on the beach.

Small brown brush held the dirt against the rise but their journey upward shifted sand beneath them nevertheless.

He could see sleek sealskin mud becoming reed-infested swamp, then gray, gritty till, finally shifting white sand.

For a week he shoveled and shifted sand, then worked a lathe as a machinist's apprentice.

But as Mac took the chopper in wider and wider concentric circles from the Baghdad terminal, all Rayford saw on the ground was shifting and sinking sand.

Wind and water, the two usual mechanisms for shifting and leveling dust and sand, are not present on airless, waterless Eros.