sea-of-sand

Updated: May 15, 2025

To stretch a figure, it was as if the sea-of-sand had been divided in the midst, so that the children of Israel might have passed dry-shod, and the Egyptians pursuing them might have been swallowed up in the billows of sand that flowed over them at intervals.

Charles Warren Stoddard - In the Footprints of the Padres