| Confronting seven different objections to our self-image as moral, well-behaved creatures, he charts a course through the philosophical quicksands that often engulf us. |
| The sands or mudflats with dangerous quicksands became a grass meadow now grazed by small flocks of sheep. |
| Queen Anne's commissioners were seriously concerned about foundations in Millbank's quicksands, calling repeatedly for reports from architects, surveyors and master tradesmen. |
| These coffee-colored floods were underlaid by thick strata of quicksands. |
| They nearly came to grief in quicksands at the mouth of the river neath. |
| Victims are sucked down by quicksands and drowned by the tides that can race in faster than a man can run. |
