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Sandpit   Listen
noun
Sandpit  n.  A pit or excavation from which sand is or has been taken.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Sandpit" Quotes from Famous Books



... hole somebody had been digging on the slope, the purpose of which I found it impossible to divine. It wasn't a quarry or a sandpit, anyhow. It was just a hole. It might have been connected with the philanthropic desire of giving the criminals something to do. I don't know. Then I nearly fell into a very narrow ravine, almost no more than a scar in the hillside. I discovered that ...
— Heart of Darkness • Joseph Conrad

... needful, stealing. But don't buy things you can't pay for.' And of all manner of debtors, pious people building churches they can't pay for are the most detestable nonsense to me. Can't you preach and pray behind the hedges, or in a sandpit, or in a coal-hole, first? And of all manner of churches thus idiotically built, iron churches are the damnablest to me. And of all the sects and believers in any ruling spirit—Hindoos, Turks, Feather Idolaters, and Mumbo Jumbo Log and Fire Worshippers—who want churches, your modern English ...
— Home Life of Great Authors • Hattie Tyng Griswold



Words linked to "Sandpit" :   Britain, sandpile, sandbox, cavity



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