sand column

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Somewhere in the centre rose a sand column that seemed to tell, in its brief moment of existence, the secret of the origin of the djinoon that roam at will through Eastern legendary lore.

From Morocco by Forrest, A. S. (Archibald Stevenson)

As he stood, the brown waiting-woman came to him, gliding like a sand column across the desert.

From Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians by Miller, Elizabeth