And all this time the sun shone and the river sang a quiet song, as it slowly sank for want of rain, leaving new and varied margins of sand and pebbles for the Sandpipers to search for food.
Oval pounding-stones made out of rolled pebbles or bowlders.
Leather bag adorned with feathers, with pebbles inside, used as a rattle in dances.
The Kid throws half an acre of California out of his collar and removes a few pebbles and a cigar butt from his ear.
The Kid is all covered with dirt and mud and his face is all cut up from the flyin' pebbles and sand.
Ingleby filled it with the shovel, and then pressed down a further load of sand and soil and pebbles with quivering hands.
Then he made out that there were little yellow grains scattered about the hide, and when he stirred the fragments of stone and pebbles with his fingers larger particles of the same hue became visible.
Of a Dragon who, having no treasure to guard, got together a pathetic heap of colored pebbles in its cave.
They splashed in the shallows, skipped pebbles over the surface, and dug a harbor with two dikes in the sandy part of the shore.
Several Brazilian shepherds organized a party to go to California to dig gold, and took along a handful of clear pebbles to play checkers with on the voyage.
They discovered after arriving at Sacramento, after they had thrown most of the pebbles away, that they were all diamonds.
Armstrong, I crawled over the mud and sharp pebbles for the whole distance, dragging with us a chain, and taking compass angles, which were entered in a wet note-book by the light of a candle often put out by the water.
Hardly had we got a hundred yards down the passage when we heard his shouts, and at once began to canter on all fours to the spring chamber over the pebbles and mud.
I threw pebbles into the brook, and wished I had held my tongue.
She was skipping flat pebblesover the water, and doing it capitally, too.
Let us suppose that you lived in a cabin beside that brook; and that once in a while, when you went out to draw your water, you saw a nugget of--gold washing along with the pebbleson the bed.
There was no resisting such a command, and I threw myself on the pebbles at her feet.
He went down, stepping gently over the pebbles of the beach lest his tread should reach and waken any ear through the open windows, lay down at the bottom of the boat, and fell asleep.
His quick eye noted the deep marks of a man's feet in the sand and pebbles below high-water mark proving that some one had been on the premises during the night.
A flowrie howm between twa verdant braes, Where lassies use to wash and spread their claes; A trottin' birnie wimplin' through the ground, Its channel pebbles shining smooth and round.
Is't a feast You're making haste to, or some vintager's, That thus you dash the pebbles with your sandals?
The Loire is none too ample here, and frets its way, as it does through most of its lower course, through banks of sand and pebbles in a more or less vain effort to look cool.
It still flows in and out among the banks of sand and those little round pebbles known all along its course, nonchalantly and slowly, though now and then one fancies that he notes a greater eddy or current than he had observed before.
At Chaumont the Loire broadens to nearly double the width at Blois, its pebbles and sandbars breaking the mirror-like surface into innumerable pools and etangs.
A sheepskin have I worn, and in my hand A sling, and pebbles taken from the brook.
It would be more correct to speak of them as pebbles of amethystine quartz.
Some of the best hunting-grounds for pebbles are the beaches of our south coast.
Many pebbles make most attractive specimens without being cut, but no pebble looks well after it is cut unless it be also polished.
Therefore the art of polishing pebbles may exert a beneficial influence in strengthening the muscles and the character of a true Englishman.
To polish flat surfaces of pebbles we work exactly as we have described, the only difference being that you work the stone flat on the margin of the laps.
Take your pebbles to a lapidary, if there is one in the town.
Nothing else than absolute rubbish--pebbles of coarse quartz, slate, and porphyry!
It is a great advantage to hunt upon a wet beach, because the colours and characters of the pebbles are more vividly shown when they are wet than when they are dry.
That amount would be enough to cut about twelve or fourteen pebbles an inch and a half in diameter.
I am speaking of flint-pebbles or agates, which are to be found upon many beaches.
Oriental and Brazilian pebbles are not unfrequently palmed off upon innocent and unsuspecting visitors as the genuine products of some favoured beach within her Majesty’s British Dominions.
Here are plenty of shingly beaches for you to choose from, and chalcedonic pebbles are common upon them all.
With the Malagasy these are usually little pebblesand potsherds, or beans and berries.
They were pebbles of inferior quartz, but I cut and polished them to convince him, and his eyes were opened to the truth.
Even pebbles imbedded in masses of pudding-stone, but rising sometimes above the level of the general surface, often have their northern side polished and scratched, while the southern one remains untouched.
Here was the secret of how pebbles and shingle and boulders were made, grinding one another smooth as were driven one over the other for hundreds and hundreds of years till they were as smooth as the rock upon which they beat.
Amory proposed," said St. George, "that we sit up here and throw pebbles at him for a time.
When you see the pebbles at the bottom of a stream, most likely its waters are not deep.
But as the eyes grow accustomed to the gloaming it becomes manifest that these were never haka; they are only little towers of stone and pebbles deftly piled up by long and patient labour.
The muddy grey Arve brings down a quantity of sand and rolls considerable-sized pebbles along its channel.
But to another sense there was greater comfort: she heard the clatter of rolling pebbles and the scramble of eager feet.
They stumbled, and slipped; pebbles and broken rock fell away under their feet.
And while you sit still on the beach you can throw pebbles into the sea.
And, now I come to think of it, I wonder that there is no charge for throwing pebbles into the sea at Brighton.
Broken" is perhaps not quite the word, unless we may speak of a torrent as being broken by pebbles in its bed.
When I had thrown a great many pebbles into the sea I began to nerve myself for the struggle of returning.
His gold will be as useful to him as any other yellow pebbles on his estate.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pebbles" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
