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A steel bucket filled with sand which is used to put out fires. Typically, fire buckets are painted bright red and have the word 'Fire' stencilled on them in white lettering. They are placed in prominent positions in rooms or corridors.

Fire Bucket

A steel bucket filled with sand which is used to put out fires. Typically, fire buckets are painted…

An ornamental shrub, often grown in glass vases filled with sand.

Integrifolium Solanum

An ornamental shrub, often grown in glass vases filled with sand.

A white flower with numerous florets. It is found in Australia, and is abundant on sand plains.

Polycalymma Stuartii

A white flower with numerous florets. It is found in Australia, and is abundant on sand plains.

"This colossal figure, human-headed and lion-bodied, is hewn from the natural rock. The body is about 150 feet long, the paws 50 feet, the head 30 feet. The height from the base of the top of the head is 70 feet. Except for its head and shoulders, the figure has been buried for centuries in the desert sand. The eyes, nose, and beard have been mutilated by the Arabs. The face is probably that of one of the pyramid kings."—Webster, 1913

The Great Sphinx

"This colossal figure, human-headed and lion-bodied, is hewn from the natural rock. The body is about…

"But who are the little boys with the silver badges about the size of a half-dollar on their coats, who are running to and fro with letters and papers in their hands? They do not seem to be more than twelve or fifteen years of age. Those are the pages of Congress; they run errands for the congressman; and each receives two dollars and fifty cents a day for his work."—Carpenter, 1898.

A Page

"But who are the little boys with the silver badges about the size of a half-dollar on their coats,…

"For two-course floors and pavements, a concrete base of about four inches thick, mixed 1:3:5 (that is, one sack of cement, 3 cubic feet of sand, and 5 cubic feet of gravel), is first placed in the forms."—The Federal Digest, 1921

Two-Course Work

"For two-course floors and pavements, a concrete base of about four inches thick, mixed 1:3:5 (that…

Also known as Pinus clausa. A pine tree mostly found in central Florida.

Sand Pine, Pine Cone

Also known as Pinus clausa. A pine tree mostly found in central Florida.

Also known as Salix cordata. The branch of a Sand Dune Willow, native to northeast North America.

Branch of Sand Dune Willow

Also known as Salix cordata. The branch of a Sand Dune Willow, native to northeast North America.

Abronia Umbellata are mostly native to California and are recognized by their showy blossoms in dense clusters that are similar to verbena.

Flowers of the Abronia Umbellata Plant

Abronia Umbellata are mostly native to California and are recognized by their showy blossoms in dense…

Abronia Umbellata grow well in light, sandy soil in a fully exposed position. The limbs of the flower like to spread out. Abronia can be sowed in the autumn and planted in the spring.

Habitat of the Abronia Umbellata Plant

Abronia Umbellata grow well in light, sandy soil in a fully exposed position. The limbs of the flower…

Abutilon is a showy, free-growing shrub. There are many hybrids that are cultivated. They grow best in a combination of equal parts of turfy loam, peat, and leaf mould, with some gritty sand. They can be planted both in pots and outside. They also require an abundance of water.

Abutilon Shrub

Abutilon is a showy, free-growing shrub. There are many hybrids that are cultivated. They grow best…

This illustration represents a border or long piece of ground that can be marked out permanently with tiles, stones, or pebbles and filled in with sand or gravel. Each number represents a type of plant to be grown.

Design for Bedding

This illustration represents a border or long piece of ground that can be marked out permanently with…

Pictured is abronia umbellata. The common name of abronia is sand verbena. The umbellata variety has pink flowers that are about a half inch. The plant is native from California seacoasts to Columbia.

Abronia Umbellata

Pictured is abronia umbellata. The common name of abronia is sand verbena. The umbellata variety has…

The clusters of sand blackberry bear one to four roundish berries.

Sand Blackberry

The clusters of sand blackberry bear one to four roundish berries.

Leiophyllum buxifolium is native from New Jersey to Florida. The flowers are white and pinkish on the outside. The flowers bloom April to June.

Leiophyllum Buxifolium

Leiophyllum buxifolium is native from New Jersey to Florida. The flowers are white and pinkish on the…

A strainer that is typically used to strain solids from a liquid, like sand from water. A common example of a strainer is a coffee filter, in which water comes in, mixes with the coffee grains and proceeds to fall below into the pot, with the solid grounds strained out/left behind.

Strainer

A strainer that is typically used to strain solids from a liquid, like sand from water. A common example…

A strainer used to separate larger particles of a substance from smaller particles of a substance, like gravel from sand. Typically used by miners or archeologists to find precious stones, metals, or artifacts.

Large Strainer

A strainer used to separate larger particles of a substance from smaller particles of a substance, like…

A young man walking alone on a path.

Young Man

A young man walking alone on a path.

"48 And he gathered up all the food of the seven years which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the field, which was round about every city, laid he up in the same. And Joseph laid up grain as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left off numbering; for it was without number." Genesis 41:48-49 ASV <p> Illustration of Joseph riding through Egypt's streets in a chariot with a herald leading the horse and announcing him. He holds several sheaves of wheat with his left arm and is collecting more from the people. A small child is handing him more sheaves. Pharaoh and four other royals emerge from a doorway behind Joseph and Pharaoh is pointing to him. An obelisk is visible in the background.

Joseph Collects Wheat as Governor of Egypt in Preparation for the Famine

"48 And he gathered up all the food of the seven years which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up…

"1. In rope-drilling, a cylinder, provided with a valve at the bottom, which is lowered into the drill-hole from time to time to remove the pulverized rock, or sludge. Also called a sludger. 2. A powerful water-jet with an annular nozle inclosing a tube which is sunk in loose sand, and operates as an injector to lift the sand with the water which discharges back through the tube. a. sand to be removed, b. suction-pipe, c. induction-pipe, d. discharge-pipe" &mdash;Whitney, 1889

Sand Pump

"1. In rope-drilling, a cylinder, provided with a valve at the bottom, which is lowered into the drill-hole…

Part of a hydraulic engine. "A device for separating sand and other heavy particles from running water. F. cast-iron body; B. cover; A. finely perforated diaphragm; D. induction-port for water; E, valve. (Water enters through D, and the sand is collected in C.) G. plug for clearing out sand." &mdash;Whitney, 1889

Sand Trap

Part of a hydraulic engine. "A device for separating sand and other heavy particles from running water.…

"In mining, a trough made of boards, used for separating gold from the gravel and sand in which it occurs. Its bottom is lined with riffles, and these, with the help of quicksilver, arrest and detain the particles of gold as they are borne along by the current of water." &mdash;Whitney, 1889 <p>Illustration of miners working in a forest, shoveling material into the sluice.

A Sluice Box - Miners Work in the Forest

"In mining, a trough made of boards, used for separating gold from the gravel and sand in which it occurs.…

<i>Chalybion caeruleum</i>. "A family of fossorial hymenopters, or digger wasps. The prothorax is narrowed anteriorly, and forms a sort of neck; the basal segment of the abdomen is narrowed into a long, smooth, round petiole; and the head and thorax are usually clothed with a long, thin pubescence. These wasps usually burrow into sand-banks, and provision their cells with caterpillars and spiders." &mdash;Whitney, 1889

Spider Huntress Wasp

Chalybion caeruleum. "A family of fossorial hymenopters, or digger wasps. The prothorax is narrowed…