For us, the rock shapes were constant speculation and astonishment; their granular surfaces and red colour and the curved chiselling of the sand-blast upon them softened the sunlight, to give our streaming eyes relief. ❋ Thomas Edward (2003)
We were never blinded — it was always possible to see for seven or eight feet to each side — but it was risky to look out, as, in addition to the certain sand-blast, we never knew if we should not meet a flying tree, a rush of pebbles, or a spout of grass-laden dust. ❋ Thomas Edward (2003)
This sort of glass is known as sand-blast glass, and the art of making it, they say, chanced to be discovered near the seashore. ❋ Sara Ware Bassett (1920)
They called the product thus made sand-blast glass. ❋ Sara Ware Bassett (1920)
No sand-blast of science had yet skinned off the epidermis of history, thought, and feeling. ❋ Unknown (1918)
We drove slowly away, against the fine, icy snow which cut our faces like a sand-blast. ❋ Willa Sibert Cather (1910)
Albert shuddered with a sympathetic pain as he thought of the men on the tops of the icy cars, with hands straining at the brake, and the wind cutting their faces like a sand-blast. ❋ Hamlin Garland (1900)
Albert shuddered with a sympathetic pain as he thought of the heroic fellows on the tops of icy cars, with hands straining at frosty brakes, the wind cutting their faces like a sand-blast. ❋ Hamlin Garland (1900)
The roar of the blizzard drowned our voices when we were but six feet apart: had it not been on our backs we could not have gone a hundred yards, for we could no more face it than we could face a frozen sand-blast. ❋ Unknown (1896)
The southeast wind was blowing down the Corso, and the pavements were yellow and sticky with the moistened sand-blast from the African desert. ❋ J. Andr�� [Illustrator] Castaigne (1881)
When in Boston, I was taken by my courteous and helpful friend, Mr. Josiah Quincey, to see the action of the sand-blast. ❋ John Tyndall (1856)
All these effects have been obtained with a simple model of the sand-blast devised by my assistant. ❋ John Tyndall (1856)
It would probably take many days to perform this work by any ordinary process; with the sand-blast it was accomplished in an hour. ❋ John Tyndall (1856)
The sand-blast illustrates the concentration of energy in space. ❋ John Tyndall (1856)
I have had occasion continually, in my art-lectures, to dwell on the great law of human perception and power, that the beauty which is good for us is prepared for the natural focus of the sight, and the sounds which are delightful to us for the natural power of the nerves of the ear; and the art which is admirable in us, is the exercise of our own bodily powers, and not carving by sand-blast, nor oratorizing through a speaking trumpet, nor dancing with spring heels. ❋ John Ruskin (1859)
"Since the brick was already porous on the top level, we could not sand-blast it. ❋ No Author (2010)
