sand-blast

We were never blinded — it was always possible to see for seven or eight feet to each side — but it was risky to look out, as, in addition to the certain sand-blast, we never knew if we should not meet a flying tree, a rush of pebbles, or a spout of grass-laden dust.

Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

For us, the rock shapes were constant speculation and astonishment; their granular surfaces and red colour and the curved chiselling of the sand-blast upon them softened the sunlight, to give our streaming eyes relief.

Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

They called the product thus made sand-blast glass.

The Story of Glass Sara Ware Bassett 1920

This sort of glass is known as sand-blast glass, and the art of making it, they say, chanced to be discovered near the seashore.

The Story of Glass Sara Ware Bassett 1920

No sand-blast of science had yet skinned off the epidermis of history, thought, and feeling.

Rome (1859–1860) 1918

We drove slowly away, against the fine, icy snow which cut our faces like a sand-blast.

My Ántonia Willa Sibert Cather 1910

We drove slowly away, against the fine, icy snow which cut our faces like a sand-blast.

My Antonia Willa Sibert Cather 1910

Albert shuddered with a sympathetic pain as he thought of the men on the tops of the icy cars, with hands straining at the brake, and the wind cutting their faces like a sand-blast.

Wayside Courtships Hamlin Garland 1900

Albert shuddered with a sympathetic pain as he thought of the heroic fellows on the tops of icy cars, with hands straining at frosty brakes, the wind cutting their faces like a sand-blast.

Other Main-Travelled Roads Hamlin Garland 1900

The roar of the blizzard drowned our voices when we were but six feet apart: had it not been on our backs we could not have gone a hundred yards, for we could no more face it than we could face a frozen sand-blast.

The Big-Horn Sheep 1896