sand-scrubbed

Updated: June 7, 2025

There, crouched upon the floor in one corner, all in a little heap, pale, tumbling and terrified, was Anita. Before her, squirming along over the sand-scrubbed floor, evidently disabled by a blow, was an enormous black-snake. It was creeping away instead of toward Anita, leaving a faint trail of crimson in its wake; yet the young girl's face was blanched with fear.

Edward L. (Edward Lytton) Wheeler - Deadwood Dick, The Prince of the Road: or, The Black Rider of the Black Hills

Then, when Service made it brutally plain, she slipped down along the doorpost like a wilted lily and lay long and white on the sand-scrubbed floor. Her women, loving her desperately, gathered her up and shut the door in the sheriff's face.

Vingie E. (Vingie Eve) Roe - Tharon of Lost Valley