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Example sentences for "pebbly"

Lexicographically close words:
peavies; peavy; pebble; pebbled; pebbles; pecado; pecan; pecans; pecause; peccadilloes
  1. The mist was rising from the silent pools of the narrow stream that alternately lay in lazy reaches and sped leaping and laughing in swift rapid over pebbly bed--the Mini Chaduza of the Sioux.

  2. The two figures crossed the belt of pebbly stones, and walked over the sunny sands to the water's side.

  3. Passers-by cast curious glances at the still figure seated upon the pebbly beach above the fringed line of seaweed--her scarlet cloak gathered round her shoulders, her dark hair blown back from her face.

  4. Piers looked at her, and as he did so there arose in his mind the swift remembrance of her face as she had sat upon the pebbly beach a few days before--the face on which he had read tragedy.

  5. All these features are enhanced in beauty by the Calgarth woods, which cover the undulations of hill and margin beneath and around, rising and falling, spreading and contracting, with green meadows interposed, down to the white pebbly strand.

  6. He touched his harp, and in the perfect silence was heard the strains of the mermaid's song, and through it the pleasant ripple of summer waters on the pebbly beach.

  7. On the pebbly path that led down from the splashing fountain to the lindens by the river, Fani and Elsli scampered back and forth, drinking in the fragrant air.

  8. Below the bridge at Middleton the Tees leaves behind it the stern Yorkshire moorlands and scaurs, the hills on either bank withdrawing themselves that it may glitter in the sunbeams over a pebbly bed.

  9. It ripples with soothing murmur over pebbly shallows, or reflects patches of blue sky in deep and glassy pools.

  10. He watched the proceeding with much interest--as did Weary--and then walked sedately from the yard, through the pebbly creek and up the slope beyond.

  11. Swinging the Mary Jane inshore, she cut her motor and headed into a small cove, to ground a moment later on a pebbly beach.

  12. It began to rain again and the dark, oily water took on a vibrant, pebbly look.

  13. At length, the magician's guest sank into a deep sleep; and when he awoke, he found himself again in the pebbly and sandy plain, with Sadoomeh still by his side.

  14. Continuing his wanderings in the desert, he found upon a pebbly plain an old man with a long white beard, who accosted him, asking of what he was in search.

  15. Making his way over the pebbly ground, he saw a pair of beautiful antelopes, which stopped, gazing at him and wagging their tails.

  16. Hence they descended on foot, supported by stout bamboos, for two hours, to the white pebbly beach on which the waves of the lake were rolling.

  17. Interesting shells, unknown to the conchological world, are picked up, numbers of which are lying on the pebbly beach.

  18. Some of the rivulets flow over a sandy and pebbly bed, and the banks of all are clothed with the most magnificent vegetation conceivable.

  19. He picked up all the shining stones he could espy in the pebbly bottom, in hopes of finding diamonds also.

  20. These forest brooks, with their clear, cold waters brawling over their sandy or pebbly beds through wild tropical glens, always had a great charm for me.

  21. Our camp was on a pebbly strand about half a mile south of this, the only, town on these shores that once held such brilliant cities.

  22. From these coarse varieties the rock passes insensibly, in one direction, into a fine or pebbly conglomerate, and in another into a rock, so fine-grained that a lens is needed to distinguish the component particles.

  23. When they are very large, the rock is called a coarse conglomerate; the finer varieties, in which the stones are small, are known as pebbly conglomerates.

  24. They found the brook only a few hundred yards farther on, and extended their walk along its pebbly bed fully a mile and a half as a precaution, keeping to their wading until they could emerge on rocky ground, where they left no trail.

  25. Despite his weariness, his thirst and his danger he noticed the silvery color of the water, and its soft sighing sound, as it flowed over its pebbly bed, made a pleasant murmur in his ear.

  26. Here was the pebbly cape with the thorn-tree where in May he had come upon Elspeth, sitting by the water, singing.

  27. The stream widened, flowing thin over a pebbly bed.

  28. A dancing stream of crystal water furnishes the camp with an abundance of that necessary, as also a lavish supply of such music as babbling brooks coursing madly over pebbly beds are wont to furnish.

  29. Further up the eastern shore are pebbly beaches strewn with agates cornelians, and chips of chalcedony.

  30. It rolls peacefully between low verdant banks and over pebbly reaches or spaces of quicksand, with beautiful curves and a majestic motion.

  31. As soon as they saw it the pair ran up the pebbly slope towards it by a simultaneous impulse.

  32. On a sunny morning he was meditating here when he discerned a figure on the shore below spreading white linen upon the pebbly strand.

  33. Then come great chalk cliffs, grass-crowned, and at their feet a pebbly strand.

  34. After him came Le Pottevin and Mozin; then an Englishman named Stanfield, and since then no one shall say how many artists have made its chalky cliffs and pebbly beaches their own.

  35. She did not look like a part of the pebbly roof now.

  36. For ages have the unbound waters Smiled on them from their pebbly hem, And the clear carol of the robin And song of bluebird welcomed them.

  37. Then, going a little farther, Ceres would, perhaps, come to a fountain gushing out of a pebbly hollow in the earth, and would dabble with her hand in the water.


  38. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pebbly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.