Quicksand

(noun.) a pit filled with loose wet sand into which objects are sucked down.

(noun.) a treacherous situation that tends to entrap and destroy.

整理:米莉

• We can go round by the coast, Mr. Franklin, said Betteredge; and get to the quicksand in that way with plenty of time to spare. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• I had always had a notion that something would happen to me at the quicksand. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• To run my hand along the Chain, when found, until I come to the part of it which stretches over the edge of the rocks, down into the quicksand. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• The Deeps of the Quicksand have got her. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• He pointed to the south side--otherwise, the side which was not filled up by the quicksand. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Is anything thrown into that quicksand of yours, ever thrown up on the surface again? 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• I wish to God we had thrown it into the quicksand! 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• She has sunk the case, in the water or in the quicksand. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• From that point, I have already traced the succession of events which led me to the astounding discovery at the quicksand. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Between the two, shifting backwards and forwards at certain seasons of the year, lies the most horrible quicksand on the shores of Yorkshire. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• She snatched her hand off my shoulder, and suddenly pointed down to the quicksand. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• I had penetrated the secret which the quicksand had kept from every other living creature. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• I may own the truth--with the quicksand waiting to hide me when the words are written. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• I was thinking, sir, I answered, that I should like to shy the Diamond into the quicksand, and settle the question in THAT way. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• I own I closed my eyes at the moment when the point of the stick first entered the quicksand. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Sinking shafts through quicksands by artificially freezing the sand, so as to form a firm frozen wall immediately around the area where the shaft is to be sunk, is a recent new idea. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.

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