The teacher noticed that often when he sent a boy to plant a stake, he would stoop every once in a while, pick up a pebble and stick a straw into it!
But never, from this, shall a vaunting word From the humbled Pebble again be heard, Till something without me or within Shall show the purpose for which I've been!
And soon in the earth she sank away From the cheerless spot where the Pebble lay.
He took the head, and carried it And laid it down by Saul; And showed him where the pebblehit That caused the giant's fall.
Though small to us a pebble seems, 'Tis made and marked by One, Who gave the warmth, and lit the beams Of yon great shining sun.
The Pebble could ne'er its vow forget, And it lies there wrapt in silence yet.
Though long the terror of the land, A pebble laid him low.
Like the pebblein the shoe, small in itself, it may do great injury.
As a projecting pebble in mid-stream blurs the transparent water with a myriad bubbles, so the narrow path of moon-rays, which our glass reveals, cute a swath of visibility straight through the host of birds to our eager eyes.
Let it be one of those tar and pebble affairs, so unpleasant to walk upon, but so efficient in shedding water.
If elevation ceased and were succeeded by depression, the exact opposite would occur, and the pebble beds would be overlain by sandstones, these by muds, and lastly limestones would appear.
The existence of pebble beds at different horizons is a noteworthy feature.
Why, indeed, could not an Indian walk on exposed gravel and pick up a pebble as well as we can to-day?
The fact that a so-called paleolithic implement was found lying on the surface of the river's shore has resulted in a pen picture of a modern Indian attempting to fashion a blade and tossing the pebble aside in disgust.
The refuse of many a chipping site shows this conclusively; and, as hundreds of failures demonstrate, many an arrowhead was made from a pebble but a trifle larger than the finished object.
But of late I have been very intimate with Mrs. Henderson, whose mind is like those crystalline lakes we read of--a pebble upon the bottom is evident.
With hem and haw he addressed me in French, his voice being thick, and speaking as there were a pebble in his mouth.
He continued, on this account, to ride with his face turned from me, and I had time to fit another pebble into the second piece of stuff.
However, though their jealousy was evident, their excitement cooled a little when they discovered that the scrap of stuff was empty; for, fortunately, the pebble had fallen out of it.
Nothing could exceed the purity of its waters, which bubbled up in copious springs, from the rock, or pebble stratum.
Whence then, it may be asked, the masses of compact reddish clay and pebble diluvium, which exist?
The pebble usually heaped above the line of sand, or in little coves among the ledges, is used for ballast, and for mending roads and garden-walks.
I could not find a round pebble among the debris of shattered rock that lay tumbled about; only fractured pieces of irregular shapes.
Within a few years excavations have been made, exhibiting the remains of pavement of beach-pebble at some distance below the surface of the ground.
I exclaimed, as the recollection of my pebble suddenly flashed upon my mind for the first time since my leaving the army.
Once, while in the army, I had picked up a small white pebble on the battle-ground of Bull Run, intending to keep it as a relic of that famed field.
One must first find the precious pebble before it can be carved and polished.
The pebblerattled among the twigs, and fell, with a thud, on the turfy sod beneath.
Pebble Lane is a local name, suggested by traces of the Roman construction that have been exposed to view; and there are hints of the old embankment, where to the careless eye nothing may appear but a swathe of waste land.
The signal was for him to drop a pebble when he wanted to come down.
A pebble is dislodged by one of them, and, falling to the water beneath, sets rings of light widening out upon it and raises a little sound.
Then the amber beam quivers through the crystal to paint eachpebble at the bottom and reveal the dim, swift shades of the trout, that dart through it from darkness back to darkness again.
But I will put a pebble in my mouth to make is less likely.
And then came the startling moment that is so delicious, the jump of the flat pebble off the line pulled out upon the bottom boards, the rattle of the check, the strong curve of the rod.
The cabin filled with the odor of burnt flesh as he stripped the coat from Stock's shoulder, where an incandescentpebble had fallen and burned through the cloth.
He picked up a pebble from the edge of the water, pointing out the green slime that covered it.
Very good; but a pebbleof such potency is not always at hand, particularly in a drawing-room.
Then he knew that it was made by a pebble which some one in the yard below had tossed against his window.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pebble" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
