coral-sand

Updated: June 17, 2025

But the people who brought them, and who were mostly young girls just entering upon womanhood, did not venture to cross the white line of coral-sand that surrounded the huts; they laid down their presents, with many salaams, on the ground outside, and then waited with a half-startled, half-reverent air for one or other of the two Shadows to come out and fetch them.

Grant Allen - The Great Taboo

And as many shell-fish eat into coral, great quantities of fine coral-sand sink to the bottom, making a nice white carpet for the fishes to glide over. Folks do not take coral from the sea at any time but during the months you call April, May, and June. Now remember these things when you go into houses and see fine large pieces of coral on the mantel, or it may be standing against the wall.

Harriet A. Cheever - Lord Dolphin