She rose to her feet, absently brushed the clinging dark sands from her legs.

He shakes his head and stretches, letting his weight sink farther into the clinging sand.

First, he stands and brushes the clinging sand from his legs and arms.

The coach moved slower now as the team dragged it through the clinging sand.

When he turned back, she had risen to brush off the clinging sand.

Grinding and grating in second speed the car toiled upward through the clinging sand.

They strained at thelong sweeps and tried to drag her off the clinging sand.

He never looked back as they walked silently together across the clinging sand.

His dark hair looked black beneath the clinging sand, his skin was paler than her own sun-browned flesh.

But in the clinging sand I could barely lift my feet.