rope of sand

The rest are all a rope of sand and may be had by anybody.

In practice, common law seems only a little too supple to be called a rope of sand.

A day might come when the rule of law will stand reduced to a rope of sand.

Nothing but a rope of sand, of no strength whatever to hold the States together, and which may be broken at any moment.

Dean seemed spellbound by the ropes of sand the other was spinning.

He described them as a rope of sand that is washed away with every tide".

He was going to make a film called Ropes of Sand but nothing came of it.

With this hoUr's tumbledown reality chewing at his heels, he felt like a man trying to make a rope of sand.

Now is the time to see whether the Union is a rope of sand or a band of steel.

Because only a logomachist weaves a rope of sand when the saints go marching in.

Spin the rope of sand!

Like Hannesson's Ropes of Sand, processed human voice is the sole sound source for this piece.

He had taken all his good ideas from Lamarck, and added only natural selection himself -- which Butler described as 'a rope of sand'.

Kiss the Blood Off My Hands 1949 Rope of Sand.

He "could not make ropes of sand" as Stephen Vincent Benet described his situation

Rope of Sand (1949)

Home of the Brave, Part 1: A Rope of Sand.

Weave a Rope of Sand (1965)

Rope of Sand on Screen Directors Playhouse: April 28, 1950

The history of persecution is a history of endeavours to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand.

Rope of Sand directed by William Dieterle

She has tried to bind him with eternal ropes of sand, she had hoped to oppress him with the Pyramids.

The contract for Ropes of Sand: America's Failure in the Middle East was signed in 1977.

He cast her in Rope of Sand (1949) opposite Burt Lancaster and Paul Henreid.

Ropes of Sand: Territorial Militias, 1801-1812, Journal of the Early Republic, Vol.