A large intermixture of sand.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

So strangely were good and evil intermixed in the character of these celebrated brethren; and the intermixture was the secret of their gigantic power.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 2] Reference

No trace is anywhere found of a Hamitic intermixture.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference

Nordics resulting from their intermixture with inferior races.    From Wordnik.com.  [Readings on Fascism and National Socialism Selected by members of the department of philosophy, University of Colorado] Reference

Revolution, but long before that time the intermixture had commenced.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 1, July, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference

There is a considerable intermixture of Norse blood in the peoples of Great.    From Wordnik.com.  [Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima] Reference

Brahmana of pure blood, and thou art those that have sprung from intermixture.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference

They are obtained by crossing, or by the intermixture of one kind with another.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference

Besides, one tune will last so much longer with a judicious intermixture of drum.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wilton School or, Harry Campbell's Revenge] Reference

The intermixture of foreigners sometimes gives rise to quarrels between them and the natives.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866] Reference

The wall on the left (eastern) side shows a similar intermixture of styles in its three unlighted bays.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bell's Cathedrals: The Priory Church of St. Bartholomew-the-Great, Smithfield A Short History of the Foundation and a Description of the Fabric and also of the Church of St. Bartholomew-the-Less] Reference

The intermixture of the Celts with these primitive races just named produced the Jews and Semitic people.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873] Reference

The contact and intermixture of races have had a moral result, which, in its turn, acts upon the physical.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

The intermixture of evil in human society serves to exercise the suffering graces and virtues of the good.    From Wordnik.com.  [English Grammar in Familiar Lectures] Reference

With these there has been intermixture of Spanish and Portuguese blood, and many mixed types have appeared.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference

The intermixture of evil in human society, serves to exercise the suffering graces and virtues of the good.    From Wordnik.com.  [English Grammar in Familiar Lectures] Reference

The milk should be shaken thoroughly before being used, in order to make a perfect intermixture of milk and cream.    From Wordnik.com.  [Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration] Reference

The walls of the large ruin near Limestone creek were composed of rude slabs of limestone with an intermixture of bowlders.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aboriginal Remains in Verde Valley, Arizona Thirteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1891-92, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1896, pages 179-262] Reference

The tower is low and square, its greenish sandstone being relieved by an intermixture of brick, and has a good peal of bells.    From Wordnik.com.  [Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter] Reference

Brahmanas are exempt from chastisement, and pledge further that thou wouldst protect the world from an intermixture of castes. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference

The process of intermixture is still going on, especially in the Western World, though by methods usually more peaceful than formerly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

Some of the mountains are thick with forests, some present a beautiful intermixture of rock and copse, while others are covered with brown heath.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference

But I never knew an intermixture of crops that was not attended by inconveniences and injuries more than was compensated by the advantages gained.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.] Reference

Bantu races, however, exhibit in some parts signs of Hottentot or Bushman intermixture, and there are legends in some mountain districts, especially.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference

Before leaving this northern side of the ambulatory it may be noticed that the pavement is made up of an intermixture of gravestones with encaustic tiles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bell's Cathedrals: The Priory Church of St. Bartholomew-the-Great, Smithfield A Short History of the Foundation and a Description of the Fabric and also of the Church of St. Bartholomew-the-Less] Reference

The country on each side was rather barren, but being an intermixture of rock and plain and being moreover new to us, it did not appear tedious or uninteresting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808] Reference

But this is only one series of movements from which has resulted the intermixture of races; there are others, and some, no doubt, beyond the farthest reach of history.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

A strange intermixture of wild and cultivated nature met our eye everywhere, betraying the hand of man where one would have thought it impossible for him to penetrate.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Vaudois of Piedmont A Visit to their Valleys] Reference

All this, perhaps, tends to heighten the effect by the bold intermixture of realities, and by an appeal, as it were, to the individual knowledge and experience of the reader.    From Wordnik.com.  [English literary criticism] Reference

He lived at a time when the Greek language had lost much of its purity by an intermixture of foreign elements, and he did not attempt to imitate the language of the Attic writers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mosaics of Grecian History] Reference