Definition of Sandheap

1. a pile of sand [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sandheap

sandflea
sandfleas
sandflies
sandfly
sandfly fever
sandfly fever group viruses
sandfly fever viruses
sandgroper
sandgropers
sandgrounder
sandgrounders
sandgrouse
sandgrouses
sandheap (current term)
sandheaps
sandhi
sandhill
sandhill-crane
sandhill crane
sandhill cranes
sandhiller
sandhillers
sandhills
sandhis
sandhoff disease
sandhog
sandhogs
sandhopper

Literary usage of Sandheap

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Beowulf: An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the by Raymond Wilson Chambers (1921)
"They were glad when they heard that, and when they had eaten, they went all three to the sandheap. As usual, the Captain and the Lieutenant do not dare to ..."

2. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1886)
"... of regret and then is off again, full tilt, after the next little saucy rascal that sits on a neighboring sandheap, making merry over his perplexity. ..."

3. Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1910)
"Not to read Jean Ingelow is to miss something from our store, a small quantity it may he, a few grains of gold sifted from a sandheap, but genuine gold for ..."

4. Lectures on Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton (1906)
"... political, social, economic—which create from what without them would be the sandheap of individual caprice and personal interest, the enduring bonds of ..."

5. Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton by Frederick William Robertson (1861)
"It would be a sandheap. Such, too, is religious faith; we trust on probabilities; and this though probabilities often are against us. ..."

6. Deucalion: Collected Studies of the Lapse of Waves, and Life of Stones by John Ruskin (1879)
"... sold represent the entire mountain surface merely as so much sandheap washed into gutters. It is totally impossible for your youth, while these false ..."

7. Merry's Museum (1843)
"My whole is the name of a great sandheap. COME out here, and I'll lick the whole of you ; as the boy said ven he seed a bottle full of sugar sticks in a ..."

8. Beowulf: An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the by Raymond Wilson Chambers (1921)
"They were glad when they heard that, and when they had eaten, they went all three to the sandheap. As usual, the Captain and the Lieutenant do not dare to ..."

9. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1886)
"... of regret and then is off again, full tilt, after the next little saucy rascal that sits on a neighboring sandheap, making merry over his perplexity. ..."

10. Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1910)
"Not to read Jean Ingelow is to miss something from our store, a small quantity it may he, a few grains of gold sifted from a sandheap, but genuine gold for ..."

11. Lectures on Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton (1906)
"... political, social, economic—which create from what without them would be the sandheap of individual caprice and personal interest, the enduring bonds of ..."

12. Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton by Frederick William Robertson (1861)
"It would be a sandheap. Such, too, is religious faith; we trust on probabilities; and this though probabilities often are against us. ..."

13. Deucalion: Collected Studies of the Lapse of Waves, and Life of Stones by John Ruskin (1879)
"... sold represent the entire mountain surface merely as so much sandheap washed into gutters. It is totally impossible for your youth, while these false ..."

14. Merry's Museum (1843)
"My whole is the name of a great sandheap. COME out here, and I'll lick the whole of you ; as the boy said ven he seed a bottle full of sugar sticks in a ..."

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