49 Verbs to Use for the Word gravel

"Besides," he said, "it was I who threw the gravel at your Excellency's windows.

Then he made a charge on that boy, and tossed him through the tent, and I looked through the hole, and saw the boy scratching gravel towards town.

I started off with washing the gravel, then fixed the under-gravel filter.

We crunch the gravel.

He sauntered along, kicking up the gravel with the toe of his boot.

The soil varied from a brown loam to ironstone gravel, and in a few spots ferruginous conglomerate was visible.

Bullets scattering the gravel ahead of him and singing around his head, and hoarse cries behind, with a heavy-booted tread of pursuers, gave Kurt occasion to hurry.

I never can resist looking into a hole in the ground, and I happened to look into the pit where we dig gravel.

As he crossed an open space a bullet whizzed by him, and then another zipped by to strike up the gravel ahead.

and she gave him a mutinous side glance and tapped the gravel with her satin slipper.

Then he felt loose gravel under his feet and thrilled with a strange fierce satisfaction.

To Bergen, eight miles, we found hard gravel, with one steep hill to descend; from Bergen in, it was sandy, and after the rain, was six inches deep in places with soft mud.

I suppose he hauls his gravel to your factory?' "'Hauling's got nothing to do with it,' said he; 'gravel is only ten cents a load anywhere, and if I choose I could put my factory right in the middle of a gravel pit.

" Grace, who stood close by with Thorn, indicated the smooth gravel and the low, wide-topped wall on which red geraniums grew.

She lives for no other purpose but to preserve the neatness of a house and gardens, and feels neither inclination to pleasure, nor aspiration after virtue, while she is engrossed by the great employment of keeping gravel from grass, and wainscot from dust.

If, however, in his barbarian condition, he had fashioned implements of any hard material, and especially if, as do the savages of the present family of man, he had accidentally deposited them, or had buried them with the dead in mighty mounds, the invading waters might well sweep them together from their place and deposit them almost in mass, in situations where the eddies should leave their gravel and sand.[C]

By the time Perris got weakly to his feet, Alcatraz was lunging up the river bank scattering gravel and small rocks behind him.

4 Those fenc'd ways that so even are made, The pedestrian traveler bemoans; He no more the green carpet may tread, But plod on, 'midst the gravel and stones:

When he came to a watercourse he would pan out the gravel of its bed for "colors," and under the glass determine if they had come from far or near, and so spying he would work up the stream until he found where the drift of the gold-bearing outcrop fanned out into the creek; then up the side of the cañon till he came to the proper vein.

and he patted the glossy coat of the mare, who arched her neck, and pawed the gravel with an impatient hoof.

There is Shane, an active, handsome-looking fellow, leaning over the half-door of his cottage, kicking a hole in the wall with his brogue, and picking up all the large gravel within his reach to pelt the ducks withthose useful Irish scavengers.

Together we had sat on benches in the park and poked the gravel into patterns.

All this swept through my brain as I listened to the hoofs of Le Gaire's horse pound the gravel outside, the sound dying away in the distance.

I next poured gravel over the filter, and placed the decorations of shells and toys on top.

I waited until they reached the gravel, and then pulled trigger.

49 Verbs to Use for the Word  gravel