1082 examples of gravel in sentences

The road leading from this place to Coventry is an excellent turnpike, just as that is from Stratford hither, and has a splendid gravel walk for pedestrians on one side, and a riding path for those on horseback, on the other side.

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Broughams and landaus would then roll over the gravel sweep, and M. Zola

He was washing gravel in a large pan, with a circular, tilting movement; and as they looked, giving a deft flirt, he flashed up the yellow gold in a broad streak across the bottom of the pan.

Where there were no upthrown mounds of gravel, great holes and trenches yawned, and chasms where the thick rime of the earth had been peeled to bed-rock.

And over all, like a monstrous race of ants, was flung an army of menmud-covered, dirty, dishevelled men, who crawled in and out of the holes of their digging, crept like big bugs along the flumes, and toiled and sweated at the gravel-heaps which they kept in constant unrestmen, as far as the eye could see, even to the rims of the hilltops, digging, tearing, and scouring the face of nature.

" A heavy foot crunched the gravel without.

Thus he rode, somewhiles all in a maze of green, and somewhiles out thence into an open glade where the light was wide and bright; and other whiles he came to some forest stream where was a shallow pool of golden gravel, and where the water was so thin and clear that you might not tell where it ended and the pure air began.

We would see these things, and we would wonder if these schoolhouses could ever shake off the scents and the stains and the memories of these present grim visitationswonder if children would ever frolic any more in the courtyards where the ambulances stood now with red drops trickling down from their beds upon the gravel.

Five miles of macadamized streets, 150,000 feet of stone and gravel walks, six miles of sewers, four miles of water and steam heating pipes, leading to every room of each of the sixty buildings, make up the equipment, which is, of course, of the highest quality throughout.

They sat for some time, listening to the sound of wheels on the gravel, to the banging of the front door, and, later, to the pacing of men in the room of death overhead.

Miss Nugent, reclining in a deck-chair at the bottom of the garden, looked up as she heard Hardy's footstep on the gravel.

'You have had absolutely nothing to eat,' said Mary, piteously, as the dogcart came grinding round upon the dry gravel.

The beach was fine gravel and shelved gradually down.

As he crossed the yard, he saw another farm where the dwelling-house faced a gravel path and a wide lawn.

" That evening, as on all other evenings, the owl had perched on a rung of the big ladder propped against the roof, from which she had looked down toward the gravel walks and grass plots, watching for rats.

She had been staring at the object that moved on the gravel path until her eyes burned.

The owl swung herself into a tree, but the midget stood on the gravel path, without attempting either to hide or to run away.

Suddenly it bent down and scooped up a handful of sandy gravel and flung the stuff full in Roy's face.

What does all this mean?" "That's just what I'd like to know," exclaimed Roy indignantly, brushing the gravel out of his smarting eyes, "I've been made prisoner and.

For, like a thing possessed, that ball fell straight into the very middle of the bunker, and when it was found lay up to its middle in gravel.

Then back went the clubthere was a scattering of sand and gravel, and the ball dropped dead on the green, four yards from the hole.

I was a boy of eight years old, dressed in a sailor suit, and with my hair clipped quite short like a French boy's, and my right knee was stiff with a half-healed cut where I had fallen on the gravel path under the schoolroom window, it was a really wet, grey day.

Out in the stream a dredger, all drab with marl, was discharging one after the other its bucket-fuls of miry gravel.

See the white gravel just thereit will be firmer still, there.

1082 examples of  gravel  in sentences