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"The Yanks! Dear God, I love them! Tells them a joke. Dear God, dear God ... I do like a fellow with sand. [...]"
Tom Wolfe. The Bonfire of the Vanities, p.255 (1987)
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You may say what you want to, but in my opinion she had more sand in her than any girl I ever see; in my opinion she was just full of sand.
Mark Twain. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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[...] I doctored the dice so that he didn’t last forever. And I’m almighty glad I had the sand to do it.
Ambrose Bierce. Can Such Things Be?
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“They say bachelors have all the fun. Not so. You just get old and full of sand, nasty, [...]"
Stephen King. The Stand (1990)
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