"Quicksand" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... aversion for Fouche strangely blinded him with respect to the capabilities of his successor. Besides, how could the administration of justice, which rests on fixed, rigid, and unchangeable bases, proceed hand in hand with another administration placed on the quicksand of instantaneous decisions, and surrounded by stratagems and deceptions? Justice should never have anything to do with secret police, unless it ...
— The Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte • Bourrienne, Constant, and Stewarton
... the most inconvenient person to talk to!" said Mr. Motley with a glance at the handsome face. "Like a quicksand—closing around one. Mrs. Linden, do you not find it so? Ah George!—talking to Miss Pet as usual. Permit me—Mrs. Linden, Mr. Alcott. George, you cannot have forgotten Mrs. Linden?" That George had not was ...
— Say and Seal, Volume II • Susan Warner
... at her companion. Was she indeed so unsuspicious of the quicksand on which stood the fair temple of her ...
— At the Mercy of Tiberius • August Evans Wilson
... predictions to be true. The stream, a full foot in depth, flowed between banks higher than usual, and its waters, cold and sweet, were entirely devoid of alkali. Following it some distance, they found sloping banks free from the danger of quicksand, and crossed to the other side, where they made ...
— The Great Sioux Trail - A Story of Mountain and Plain • Joseph Altsheler
... feet between the sands we call the Twin Brothers. Of these, that to the south, and inside the bay, is motionless, and bears the name of the 'Dead-Boy;' but the 'Quick-Boy,' to the north, shifts continually. It is a quicksand, in short; and will swallow ...
— Noughts and Crosses • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
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