In the first place, there are no pavements or gravel walks.

Emerging from the bushes, they found themselves standing on a gravel path, green with moss and weeds, which ran round the housea queer, dilapidated-looking building, which seemed sadly in want of repair: the plaster was cracked and discoloured, while the doors and windows had long stood in need of a fresh coating of paint.

THOUGHTS IN A GRAVEL-PIT {262} Ladies and gentlemen, we may of course think of anything which we choose in a gravel-pit, as we may anywhere else.

More than any of the rest of the gardens in the village, that of The Ruins suffered from such weather; for not only was there a deep gravel-bed under its mould, but a good part of its produce grew on the mounds, which were mostly heaps of stones, and neither gravel nor stones could retain much moisture.

What are those sticks of wood which keep the gravel bank up?

The new line ran into a muskeg that sucked down brush and logs and the loads of numerous gravel trains.

Here Discretion dares lift her lids to rove the gravel drive for who comes there.

We drove back over the fine gravel road at a round trot, watching the last edge of day in the northwest and north, where it no sooner fades than it buds again to bloom into morning.

Slacking only to be slacked, cars dart off the road and up a gravel driveway that encircles Claxton Inn like a lariat swung, then park themselves among the trees, lights dimmed.

One minute I looked ahead on a cliff as unbroken as the side of a cabin; the very next I peered down the length of a cove fifty fathoms long by about ten wide, at the end of which was a gravel beach.

There are usually four varieties: those of cut stone, as in the country around Tusculum; those of burned brick, as in Gaul; those of unburned brick as in the Sabine country; those of gravel concrete, as in Spain and about Tarentum.

Referring to soils; it is held as a rule, that a gravel soil is superior to any other, as the rain drains through it very quickly, and it is consequently drier and less damp than clay, upon which water rests a far longer time.

"For some distance below the White Horse Rapids the current is swift and the river wide, with many gravel bars.

When the black front of a gravel car leaped out of the gloom he jumped off the track.

As soon as the wheels of her brougham were heard bowling away over the gravel sweep, we went up together to his room.

The forts were crumbling, the barracks empty, and the 'neat cottages, smiling flower gardens, smooth grass- plats and gravel-walks,' which were once the pride of the citadel, replaced for the most part with Guava-scrub and sensitive plants.

He went to the waiting engine in front of a long row of ballast cars, on which a big gravel plough loomed faintly in the dark.

"Eight miles below Little Salmon River, a large rock called the Eagle's Nest, stands up in a gravel slope on the easterly bank of the river.

The gravel play-ground was deserted, he noticed, for the cricket-field.

"Well, I could have sworn I heard the gravel crunch as if some one was walking on it," returned the other.

Though with those streams he no resemblance hold Whose foam is amber and their gravel gold.

The day-gang on No. 0 was hard at it down there where lengthwise in the channel was propped a line of sluice-boxes, steadied by regularly spaced poles laid from box to bank on gravel ridge.

He described the timber on the gravel terraces of the watershed as small and open.

A belt of brown dead timber on a gravel scar, showed, upside down, like sombre cypresses rising from green turf and the reflected snows were pale green.

Even at the age when girls seemed feckless creatures, whose aimings were inexplicable, both as concerned existence in general, and, more concretely, as touched gravel-shooters and snowballs, and whose reasons for bursting into tears were recondite, one had perceived the difference.