pebble

Then a thought came to him, and he took a pebble and dropped it into the Pitcher.

A tiny pebble whirred past with the force almost of a bullet.

Ever since we three or four fortunate ones made the midnight trip to Athens, it has afforded him genuine satisfaction to give every body in the ship a pebble from the Mars-hill where St.

This so frightened his father and mother that in order to comfort them a Fairy, who happened to be present at the time, produced a little pebble which she told them to keep for the Prince till he grew up, as by putting it in his mouth he would become invisible, as long as he did not try to speak, for if he did the stone would lose all its virtue.

He kicked a small pebble that lay convenient to his foot.

Obeying some impulse, she determined to mar that eternity of peace, and threw the largest pebble she could find.

There was not a variation in the surface of the soil, not a hillock of sand, not a pebble, to relieve the gaze.

The moon shone brightly, and the white pebbles which lay in front of the house glittered like real silver pennies.

And as he delivered his instructions to those within, a silent listener crouched without his tent, waiting for the time when he might enter in safety and prosecute his search for the missing pouch and the pretty pebbles that had caught his fancy.

200 feet; it probably everywhere extends to this great chain, whence the well-rounded pebbles of porphyry have been derived: we may consider its average breadth as 200 miles, and its average thickness as about 50 feet.

Jehan replied coldly: "Here are the pebbles wherewith I pave my fob!"

One of them, a grey-bearded veteran, drew the chair a little further down the planked way across the pebbles. Hannah Cox kept close to its side.