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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Even readers whose knowledge of the written word comes from cereal boxes are familiar with metaphors using battlefields and quicksand .
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Gilbert's squirming body vanished into the carpet like quicksand .
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It was like trying to shore up a wall of quicksand .
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She felt a bit like some one caught in quicksand , whose every turn only succeeded in further compounding the difficulties.
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The blackness was suddenly all around, closing in like quicksand .
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The lock had been built on quicksand , and gave continual trouble as the ground subsided and water seeped away.