A slight jar, the fall of a pebble, sometimes even sounds unnoticed by ourselves, were enough to send them into the water.

"Life is but the pebble sunk, Deeds the circle growing!"

When bright grates are once neglected, small rust-spots begin to show themselves, which a plain leather will not remove; the following method of cleaning them must then be resorted to:First, thoroughly clean with emery-paper; then take a large smooth pebble from the road, sufficiently large to hold comfortably in the hand, with which rub the steel backwards and forwards one way, until the desired polish is obtained.

Beyond that was a clean, pebble strewn bar and then a smaller, narrower prong of the river.

He had his hands on his knees, with his elbows out at right angles, like a nigger minstrel of the old school about to ask Mr. Bones why a chicken crosses the road, and he was staring before him with a smile so fixed and pebble-beached that I should have thought that anybody could have guessed that there sat one in whom the old familiar juice was plashing up against the back of the front teeth.

As it happened, however, the thing was taken out of his hands, for at this moment, Gussie, having stretched his arms and yawned a bit, switched on that pebble-beached smile again and tacked down to the edge of the platform.

stone, pebble, flint, marble, rock, fossil, crag, crystal, quartz, granite, adamant; bone, cartilage; hardware; heart of oak, block, board, deal board; iron, steel; cast iron, decarbonized iron, wrought iron; nail; brick, concrete; cement.

There liv'd a Knight exceld his petty fame As far as costly Pearle the coursest Pebble, An English Knight cald Pembroke: were his bones Interred heere, I would confesse of him Much more than thou requir'st, and be content To hang both shield and sword upon his Hearse.

Occasionally she throws a pebble from the shore far into the river, and the copper-colored children spring after it, as if the water were their own element, striving to get it before it sinks from their view.

Still bending the imprisoned arm further back, he put his knee on the neck of the poor little hero, game as a pebble through it all, and by a strong steady strain tried to bend him over, till we thought either the poor fellow's neck must break, or his arm be torn from its socket.

We could have tossed a pebble upon them.

For the pebble had only been thrown in at New Zion.

Yes, the pebble had only been thrown in at New Zion.

Thor dragged it aside with his one right hand as if it were no more than a pebble.

He made sure that every man was in position, felt of the pitcher's plate with his foot, kicked aside a small pebble, and then took any amount of time in preparing to deliver.

But you might as well have hunted for one particular pebble on a beach as for a single individual in all that throng.

As well strike him with a pebble.

No one heeded his fall except his brothers; the gardener came by and gathered the apples and pears, but did not look at the walnut-tree; and when he kicked the fallen walnut with his feet he took no more notice of it than if it had been a pebble.

Another good authority recommends a pebble or leaf to be held in the mouth.

"By the gentle dropping-in of a pebble."Sheridan cor.

" No budding branch, no pebble from the brook, No form, no shadow, but new dearness took From the one thought that life must have an end; And the last parting now began to send Diffusive dread through love and wedded bliss, Thrilling them into finer tenderness.

Pebble pickers.

R71821, 18Dec50, National Geographic Society (PWH) PEBBLE PICKERS, by Angelo Patri.

We can now understand why in Lower Brittany every person throws a pebble into the midsummer bonfire.

DavidGoliath with a pebble.