Usually the surface of the sand is slightly firmer and the large automobile tires ride on it fairly well.

As a rule, the softest, deepest, and most treacherous places in sand are the tracks where wagons travel--these are like quicksand.
The sun was hot, the sand was deep, and we had pushed and tugged until the silence was ominous; at length the lowering clouds of wrath broke, and the Professor said things that cannot be repeated.
By way of apology, he said, afterwards, while shaking the sand out of his shoes, "It is difficult to preserve the serenity of the class-room under conditions so very dissimilar.

I understand now why the golf-playing parson swears in a bunker.

It is not right, but it is very human.

It is the recrudescence of the old Adam, the response of humanity to emergency.