How To Use Gravel In A Sentence

Would reverse flow undergravel filtration be better?
The birds occupy a range of wetland habitats: lakes, rivers, reedbeds, sedge fens, marsh dykes, ponds, flooded gravel pits and meres.
It is typically French in plan: formal and neatly patterned, with rows of trees and gravel paths.
Quarried stone is used mainly for the production of roof tiles and other heritage products rather than garden rockery stone or sand and gravel.
Normally, asphalt road surfaces are built on top of a bed of concrete, which is itself built atop a bed of gravel.

The new gravel road has been built parallel to the old tarmac Gun Park Road
As I looked at these mines with their thousands of grinning natives and heard the rattle of gravel in the "jigs" my mind went back to Kimberley and the immense part that its glittering wealth played in determining the economic fate of South Africa. An African Adventure
Niece," said Don Inocencio gravely and sententiously, "when serious things have taken place, caprices are not called caprices, but by another name. Dona Perfecta
I tell you what though, brother,’ said Dennis, cocking his hat for the convenience of scratching his head, and looking gravely at Hugh, ‘it’s worthy of notice, as a proof of the amazing equalness and dignity of our law, that it don’t make no distinction between men and women. Barnaby Rudge
For the French, the sport borders on a national obsession, but enthusiasts in Stockport are hoping the sound of metal boules on gravel will become a traditional feature of the English summer.
But what is interesting for visitors is that the garden is still evolving: a gravel garden with silver plants is surrounded by a cloister of youthful hornbeams.
White winged doves coo, and a whiptail lizard scurries across the gravel.
The paintings have been created using tactile road-surface materials such as sand, grit, gravel and liquid tar.
In places the sound of the river rises up the gravel slope, and thirsty dogs rush down for a drink and cannot reascend; should the owner go down to fetch the dog, he or she will be trapped as well.
Put a layer of fine gravel into the bottom of the plant pot for drainage.
Buck Mulligan stood up from his laughing scribbling, laughing: and then gravely said, honeying malice: Ulysses
Leaving his horse he walked around the perimeter, the grind of his boots on gravel and grass the only sound in the evening stillness.
To get essential drainage if you don't have a rock wall, plant in a mixture of two parts sand or gravel to one part potting mix.
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After following a narrow gravel road for about 200 metres we took off down a side track.
Excavation has shown that instead of removing the peat which was shallow at this point, a thin layer of sand was spread over the top of the peat, and gravel with some sand was heaped over to form a low agger.
Stanley was very tall and though a very sweet man, he had a deep, gravelly voice that often got him jobs on cartoon shows as dastardly villains.
We don't know much about what the impact is when hundreds of tonnes of gravel are removed.
But despite being so rubbish and boring that it'd be more fun to watch a TV show about a static eggcup full of gravel from Norfolk, Sooty is back! Rosie O’Donnell Less Drunk Than Ever Before
I thought we were playing hardball,’ Ruth drawls and Faulkner frowns, appearing to be gravely insulted.
The front garden is laid out in gravel, while the large lawn to the rear provides an evening suntrap.
She heard the crunch of tires on the gravel driveway.
Yesterday we went to Jewsons and ordered some fence panels, posts, sand, gravel, cement etc.
What would be more exciting would be to load up our own versions of Mom — cigarette-smoking, gravel-voiced and imperfectthough she may be. I’m pretty sure I’m offended by this — or, at the least, nonplussed « Dating Jesus
The United Nations said it was gravely concerned at the shelling of a Palestinian refugee camp in Latakia.
It really gravels me that everything was cut; they clear-cut everything.
Let us suppose, then, the era of 'gravels' past; the valleys which open into the fen sawn out by rivers to about their present depth. Prose Idylls, New and Old
The sediments comprise silts, sand, gravel and, often lenticular, silty clay, comparable with similar sediments in the Petrockstowc basin, where the bulk of the deposits are Eocene.
He's perfect as a camp hard-ass, spouting absurd rhetoric in his gravelly voice while depriving the inmates of the necessities of life.
His gravelly voice was even rougher than usual, harsh and grating, but the child didn't seem to notice.
In front of our building was a patch of raked gravel with flowerbeds full of geraniums and palm plants.
And I have left the bones of my transient carcasses in pond bottoms, and glacial gravels, and asphaltum lakes. Chapter 21
They had gravely impaired the credibility of the government.
SLUICE ROBBER: one way of separating gold from the gravel and sand in which it is found is to put the mixture into a slanting trough, called a sluice, through which water is run. The Short-story
Huckleberries flourish on the timbered slopes, and kinnikinick gladdens many a gravelly stretch or slope. Wild Life on the Rockies
However, Okuic still faces high prices of construction materials like sand and murram/gravel, not naturally found in Malakal, which results in high transportation costs from merchants importing them from Khartoum or Juba. Sudan Tribune: Plural news and views on Sudan
The large area to the rear of the house is also graveled but could be developed as a lawn by new owners.
Minimalists will love the temple stone garden in which sawn tree trunks weave a path through unadorned gravel.
This means that there should be no material crossing the joint - not gravel stops, not copings, not membrane and certainly not roofing cement - that cannot flex or move with the movement of the structure.
Fill with stones until three-quarters full then top up with gravel and a layer of very gritty compost on top, about 3in deep.
[Illustration: "_Gravely passed from tent to tent_"] [Illustration: "_And threw her arms round little Ann_"] "Look at that child," said one, "I'm sure Plain Jane
Self-seeders such as eryngium and nigella colonise the gravel paths. Times, Sunday Times
Suddenly, on the gravelled path, unhurrying, cool, luxuriant, Mme. Swann appeared, displaying around her a toilet which was never twice the same, but which I remember as being typically mauve; then she hoisted and unfurled at the end of its long stalk, just at the moment when her radiance was most complete, the silken banner of a wide parasol of a shade that matched the showering petals of her gown. Within a Budding Grove
The driveway gravel crunched underneath our sneakers.
Adopted from Native American tradition, the drum beats represent the slap of the female coho's tail as she scrapes out a shallow gravel nest called a redd. The Seattle Times
An aquifer is an underground bed of earth, gravel or porous stone that stores water.
He has a rather manic look about him - scrunched up face and a very low gravelly voice - and when I was first introduced to him I'll admit to being pretty wary.
From the valley floor the line “could be traced along the mountain sides, following all the angles and sinuosities of the ridges for many miles—always preserving its horizontality—sometimes being high up above the plain, and again intersecting long and high slopes of gravel and sand; on such places a beach-line could be read.” Colossus
On them we found the only gravel bed we saw in Labrador, and yet their name is due to the rough piled basaltic appearing rock, that proved on close examination to be much weathered sienite and granite. Bowdoin Boys in Labrador An Account of the Bowdoin College Scientific Expedition to Labrador led by Prof. Leslie A. Lee of the Biological Department
Careening back onto the highway, spraying gravel as he went, Jack stomped on the accelerator and gave chase.
Litonite is a zeolite, that is, a special gravel that absorbs mineral salts and then gradually releases them to plant roots via an ionic interchange. Orchids of Mexico
On to Redlands Quarry where oystercatchers wheeled around gantries and mountains of gravel.
Then she jumped back onto the gravel, near the spot where I had watered the dog, smiled from ear to ear, waved and ran inside the bungalow to finish packing her mountain of stuff.
Open the spigot and run water through the gravel.
Casino on sundry occasions, and sagaciously preferring places within the range of her experience to bourns neither cognate nor conjecturable, she moved gravely up towards the gate on which the Italian sat; and, after eying him a moment, -- as much as to say, "I wish you would get off," -- came to a deadlock. My Novel — Volume 04
‘A roughly graveled area used for parking cars grabbed my imagination,’ she says.
After 350 metres, it becomes very steep, it isn't gravelled and is not suitable for wheelchairs.
The road becomes a gravel track and begins to ascend through silver birch as the hills start closing in.
But her gravelly voice suddenly leapt with glee when Allen brought out an old, blue hard-sided suitcase.
Outside, the back garden is landscaped with a rockery area, lawn, patio area and gravelled area incorporating shrubs and climbers.
The progression from the comminution till and gravelly mud of Units 3 and 2 into the diatomaceous mud of Unit 1 likely represents the Last Glacial Maximum to Holocene transition in the northwestern Weddell Sea. Domack on the Larsen 1-A Ice Shelf « Climate Audit
Walk along the gravelled way through old mine buildings. Times, Sunday Times
Introducing Geoff's Earth-Fountain©: “it spits gravel and freshly tilled soil up into the air in dizzying patterns.” Archive 2005-10-01
The gravelly whir of wheels on pavement is subtle, while motorcycle engines throb and roar.
Myricaria laxiflora, on the other hand, prefers the alluvial soil with sand and gravel in subtropics climate. The soil is of weak alkalinity, has low content of nutrient but moderate salt.
In order to generate grip on the icy gravel roads, all cars run on skinny studded snow tyres that bite through snow into the harder surfaces underneath.
Rocks consist of gravel ridges and are best described as elongated whale-shaped hills formed by glacial actions (Drumlins) The higher planes of Chorley and Leyland indicate that the underlying rocks have emerged from this drift. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
As it turned out, the city needed gravel for a public works project, so crews hauled away seven truckloads.
The floor was a soft bank of gravel and sand underneath half a metre of scum topped water.
This would also, I fear, gravely impoverish our language.
A small gravelled area is the first thing one encounters, southwest - facing and with a thin layer of soil covering spoil from a demolition.
“Lady — —,” he began gravely (and I could not but notice that the mere title seduced him to conventional, poetic language), “moves like a lily in water; I always think of her as a lily; just as I used to think of Lily Langtry as a tulip, with a figure like a Greek vase carved in ivory. Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions
Pink blossoms of carnation Dianthus imereticus, white-flowered perennial navelwort Omphalodes kusnetzovii and snow-in-summer Cerastium ponticum are suitable to rock and gravel in which they often choose to grow.
Most of his soils are a gravelly sandy loam known as Aura, well drained and with 15% clay.
‘Recuperated money can go toward bonuses for employees,’ Gravel muses.
Other projects are defined as "rehabilitation", usually adding natural features such as gravels or reed beds into the existing modified channel. Water Conserve: Water Conservation RSS Newsfeed
In order that he and his friends could continue to enjoy travel by horse-drawn carriage and buckboard, Rockefeller designed and financed what ultimately became a 57-mile-long system of gravel roads.
But the economists have erred no less gravely in rejecting a priori, and just because of the contradictory, or rather antinomical, nature of value, every idea and hope of reform, never desiring to understand that, for the very reason that society has arrived at its highest point of antagonism, reconciliation and harmony are at hand. System of Economical Contradictions: or, the Philosophy of Misery
The only area to the side of the house was gravelled, a surface which would certainly not be child friendly.
There is plenty of room for parking along a semi-circular gravel driveway, as well as in an integrated single garage with an up-and-over door.
The place was a garden, somewhat gone to waste, with a gravel drive running round a great circle of periwinkles with a spotted aucuba in the middle. The Carbonels
Then the back door had banged open and Sonny had followed the college boy out to his car, quick long strides crunching over gravel.
It is not necessarily contemporary with the gravels in which it is found.
I was getting a really bad sensation in my fingers and it felt like I was walking on gravel.
However, nourished by dew, the eastern Jidda 'is relatively well vegetated with a very open acacia woodland of small Acacia tortilis and Prosopis cineraria trees with shrubby A. ehrenbergiana growing in shallow sandy depressions, rock fissures and in drainage swales on the gravel plains. Arabian Oryx Sanctuary, Oman
It's not her fault that she looks like a man, or has a gravelly voice, or isn't particularly poised or charming.
The others were those who could not be at the grove full-time - due to work, home, or an aversion to sleeping either 80 feet up a tree or in a wigwam made of tarps set on a gravel logging road.
As it was about one p.m. we assumed that he had just stopped by for lunch but when he had finished eating he took from his car a large wok-like pan and started panning the gravel from the river bed.
Cast-iron plows, as well as the steel plows of that date, were very heavy, wore out rapidly -- the metal being soft -- and didn't "scour," except in the purer sands and gravels. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen
We especially loved the garden cottages and their alfresco showers in tiny gravelled courtyards. Times, Sunday Times
I am to request you will not use the word 'jilt' and Miss Ashton's name together," said Bucklaw, gravely. The Bride of Lammermoor
A rowboat was beached on the gravelly shore and abandoned there.
Most recently, the alluvial gem gravels of the Songea and Tunduru regions in the south have been productive.
The use of impervious surfaces (like pavement and concrete) can be minimized and replaced with pervious surfaces (like stone and gravel) whenever possible.
I only saw the southernmost, which is strongly impregnated with sulphur, and made my thermometer rise to 102°; it constantly bubbles from a bottom of coarse gravel, in the middle of the bason, which is about twenty feet in circumference, and four feet deep. Travels in Syria and the Holy Land
It is never more than around half a metre deep, and below it sits a hard crust of limestone, a stratum of free-draining limestone clay, then gravel and finally an enormous water table.
The shoreline was black gravel, occasionally interrupted by a sand beach.
The servants, powdered and in short breeches as usual, served us in their customary solemnity; but they must have wondered why we preferred to sit on the gravel, with a draught of cold air on our backs, when we might have been comfortably seated in a big and airy room with a carpet under our feet. In the Courts of Memory, 1858 1875; from Contemporary Letters
Kazakhstan: total: NA km paved: 150,000 km (these roads are said to be hard-surfaced, and include, in addition to conventionally paved roads, some that are surfaced with gravel or other coarse aggregate, making them trafficable in all weather) (2000) unpaved: NA km (these roads are made of unstabilized earth and are difficult to negotiate in wet weather) The 2001 CIA World Factbook
Tar and gravel have been used to resurface the eastbound lane and, in places, the shoulder.
Without Limmer, there would be no Gimblett Gravels, that shingly region of Hawke's Bay that has assumed legendary winegrowing properties.
Now a gravel-voiced belter, the singer plays his home town. Times, Sunday Times
Senter 9.12 reports in a young woman a singular case of ischuria which continued for more than three years; during this time if her urine was not drawn off with the catheter she frequently voided it by vomiting; for the last twenty months she passed much gravel by the catheter; when the use of the instrument was omitted or unsuccessfully applied the vomitus contained gravel. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
“Larst Satiday I got three barrer-loads of gravel off my petaters,” said Mr. Tom Smallways. The War in the Air
It is among the largest in the country, ranging from farms to gold mines, gravel pits to forests.
My stepmother hit loose gravel and ran the vehicle off the road into a stop sign.
And he spoke of my havin 'egged 'em on to steal watermelons frum Mister Bell's watermelon patch out here three miles frum town, on the Marshallville gravel road. The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story
‘You're up early,’ he said, in his deep, gravelly voice.
Luckily, sentiments like these fall flat when gravelized through the vocoder anyway.
The large number of artifacts found by miners in the gravels was a supporting evidence for the reasonableness of finding a fossilized skull there. CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]
On the way back again to rejoin his mate he inadvertently walked over some gravel, and the noise alerted the guards.
At the gates of his house two guards jump to their feet at the sound of strangers crunching on the gravel.
Among the gravels there were shiny crystals of the mineral gypsum, the residue left behind when seawater evaporates.
Stepping off the concrete path on to gravel was a new sensation and he felt himself slide and stumble.
After driving for so long on the gravel I was glad to get on an even stretch of road.
A low growl, like the sound of sand and gravel rolling around deep within his broad chest, emanated from the beast continuously.
rake gravel
The beds are surrounded with pea gravel for a clean look and low maintenance.
Work started on the site for the pergola today, with the foundations being levelled and the gaps between the stone being filled with coarse gravel ready to receive sand and slabs.
She tried not to look where the dead men lay, graveless, sheeted in a cloth the sun would soon strip away, but her guilt betrayed her. BOUNDARY WATERS
All I could hear, for half a mile, was the sound of our feet crunching on the gravel, and the gentle moos coming from the cows in the fields.
Just ask Christopher Dodd, Joe Biden, Mike Gravel, Dennis Kucinich, John Edwards and Bill Richardson, who many times in the earlier debated looked a collection of Maytag repairmen instead of presidential candidates while the focus was on Hillary and Obama. Radio Blogger's TownHall Blog
The skull of a woolly mammoth found in a Wiltshire gravel pit will form the centrepiece of a new education centre.
Farmer Robert Cunyngham Brown is a grey-haired countryman who owns both Graveland and Otterswick and has a family pedigree on the island that stretches back hundreds of years.
The driveway was obstructed by piles of stones and gravel.
With her ear to the floor, Yelina could hear gravel whacking and rattling against the bottom of the vehicle, the scrunch of the tires.
With a magnetic belt capable of separating out the rebar iron from the concrete, it ground the concrete to gravel.
The West Texas scrubland is gorgeous, though it’s hard to imagine anyone surviving for long among the gravelly soil and stunted shrubs. A Bland and Deadly Courtesy
Keep their roots shaded with gravel or some large stones, mulch them now and then and they'll be happy for years.
But recovered concrete can be crushed and used as road gravel or aggregate.
The deputation saluted, returned to the fallen-out contingent, which gravely unpiled its arms and marched back to its lines, amid a little desultory cheering from some few by-standers who realised what was taking place. On the Heels of De Wet
Suddenly there was a flash of light on his far right, deep inside the grounds at the end of a straight gravelled road that branched off from a circular drive behind the bathhouse.
The virtual suppression of the preconciliar Mass in the years following Vatican II seemed to share some similar qualities that are in retrospect gravely regrettable. Extraordinary Form, Montgomery, Alabama
That woman's hypocrisy really gravels me for some reason.
If the pond is located in sandy or gravelly soils or near fractured bedrock, seal the pond with an approved plastic liner or at least 6 inches of compact clay.
Eventually the planet will no longer be hospitable to humans because we continue to gravely mutilate the environment.
Continued erosion by fast-flowing water eroded the uplands to the north of the Gippsland Basin and covered the coal measures with sands and gravels.
He opened the gate quietly, trying not to let it scrape on the gravel.
The pebbles/gravel/snow scrunched beneath our feet.
A writer in the "Atlantic" [1] gravely tells us the wood thrush is sometimes called the hermit, and then, after describing the song of the hermit with great beauty and correctness, coolly ascribes it to the veery! In the Catskills Selections from the Writings of John Burroughs
But he called me to tell me that he felt bad that they had told me that the reason we couldn't go was this gravelling because it had, in fact, been finished the day before I arrived. Op-Ed: Reporters Covering Oil Spill Stymied
The inside needs to be free from dust bunnies, dirt, gravel, and pet dander - even if you end up buying a furry case.
To discourage voles or gophers, add a handful of sharp gravel to the planting hole or plant bulbs in wire or fabric baskets.
_condition precedent_; -- but the meeting disregard it -- reject the condition, and gravely resolve to accept _a resignation_, which had not yet been tendered to them. A Review and Exposition, of the Falsehoods and Misrepresentations, of a Pamphlet Addressed to the Republicans of the County of Saratoga, Signed, "A Citizen"
The pebbles/gravel/snow scrunched beneath our feet.
Cat stood up and walked towards the fence, gravel crunching beneath her shoes.
I tell you what though, brother, 'said Dennis, cocking his hat for the convenience of scratching his head, and looking gravely at Hugh,' it's worthy of notice, as a proof of the amazing equalness and dignity of our law, that it don't make no distinction between men and women. Barnaby Rudge: a tale of the Riots of 'eighty
Find a new home for potted plants or spread aquarium gravel over the dirt to help contain mold.
Aislinn nodded gravely, her eyes momentarily taking on a distant light.
It 'gravels' me, to this day, to put my will in the weak shape of a request, instead of launching it in the crisp language of an order. Life on the Mississippi, Part 3.
A shower of gravel barely missed me, hurled by naughty boys who played among the ruins, ambushing one another.
Why his masculine whore, now the rotten diseases of the south, the guts griping ruptures: loades a gravell in the back, lethergies, could palsies, rawe eies, durtrotte [n] livers, whissing lungs, bladders full of impostume. The Historie of Troylus and Cresseida (1609 Edition)
Much of the coast is formed of cliffs 20 to 50 m high, and a sandy or gravelly hamada plateau stretches inland. Atlantic coastal desert
A long graveled driveway led us from the main road all the way to very front of the building that wrapped around a small fountain with the statue of an angel dancing in the center.
In the kayak, he is up to his waist in gravel and dirt, for a gaping hole has been ripped in the bottom.
Outside, to the west of the house, there is a gravelled patio surrounded by euphorbia beds, two-block built outhouses and a timber shed, while to the east is a lawn area edged with a white picket fence.
Peat and clay particles and a layer of gravel is suitable.
Oh gods, oh gods, she repeated in her mind, just barely registering that she had almost made it out of the clearing and was running across the last stretch of gravel.
He gravely thought poetry a sort of disease ” a sort of fungus of the brain ” and held as a serious opinion, that nobody could be properly well who exercised it as an art ” which was true (he maintained) even of men ” he had studied the physiology of poets, 'quotha' ” but that for women, it was a mortal malady and incompatible with any common show of health under any circumstances. The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett
Many loose materials are sold by the cubic yard, including cement, dirt, sand, rock, landscaping bark, gravel and cinders.
Some quietly, like Nick Nolte as a gravel-voiced trainer-turned-owner, seeking redemption for a lost horse; and some loudly, most notably Kevin Dunn channeling Dennis Franz as a dyspectic gambler in a wheelchair, part of a gang of four shaggy underdogs including a scraggly Jason Gedrick, plus Ian Hart and Ritchie Coster who end up with a personal stake in what horse makes it to the winners' circle. Weekend TV in Review: Good Wife, Luck, Spartacus, Hallmark's Moon
Inside, the pathways are gravelled and there are neat rectangles of earth for the children to work on.
Levee Blasted to Ease Water Levels Paul Newton/The Southern Illinoisan/Associated Press Crews with the Illinois Department of Transportation put gravel down on a closed portion of U.S. 51 south of Cairo, Ill., Monday to fill in holes in the road. Hopes Rise as Rivers Fall
To process a netful of bugs and materials (leaves, twigs, gravel, etc.), invert the materials from the net into a bucket or similar container of water.
Then it was a pleasant flat-out trial, passing the filled gravel pits, the brewery, the flat land just south of Reading. WHISTLER IN THE DARK
Unable to burrow into the hard gravel, the gophers may instead have arranged the topsoil into mound shaped nests that proceeded to grow in size over many generations.
By now we were close to my farm, coasting down off the ridge, the headlights turning the gravel road white.
‘A pity that it will be like this for only a short while longer,’ a deep, gravelly voice said.
Without a word, they trudge down the gravel path towards the water's edge and rising sun, Georgie in jandals and Caroline in gumboots, their boat on their shoulders.
The surface of the poultry-yard (fig. 13.) should be level; and about one half of it should be laid down with gravel, but the lower part, near the pond, should be grass, as, unless there is some kind of herbage, there will be neither insects nor snails, and poultry require some animal food to keep them in health. The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally
The stream has now become nothing more than a sediment sluice with rock pools filled-in with sand and gravel, and former riffle reaches submerged in sediment.
She imitated the footfalls of the brigand ahead of her, trying not to dislodge gravel or stones.
Groundwater is water that lies below the soil surface and fills the pore spaces in and around rock, sand, gravel, and other materials.
In 1930, far from being a gravelly diseuse, she possessed a girlish soprano, that makes her dirty delivery all the more shocking.
Gravel is usually understood to mean calculi, (from the old word calx) a limestone, or little sand-like stones, which pass from the kidneys through the ureters into the bladder. The Cherokee Physician, or Indian Guide to Health, as Given by Richard Foreman, a Cherokee Doctor; Comprising a Brief View of Anatomy, With General Rules for Preserving Health without the Use of Medicines. The Diseases of the U. States, with Their Symptom
You swing out of a slipstream, overtaking a cyclist, and your helmet starts vibrating with the G-force - one false move and you will be picking gravel out of your teeth for weeks.
Even if an intertidal zone existed, sea ice disturbance, as well as the unstable, gravelly substrate, would make it uninhabitable by intertidal benthos, epifauna, or epiphytes.
Cultivation: Very undemanding as to growing medium, this plant will even grow in plain aquarium gravel or sand.
Boats of various shapes and sizes were built, yachts, smaller sailing craft, yawls, lighters for transporting sand and gravel, punts, racing gigs and even speedboats in the late 1930's.
Because she could not pick up the motorbike after a gravel rasher, and on bends she just did not have the weight to keep the bloody wheels on the tarmac. Motorcycle Daydream « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
In the lowlands of Serenje district is Ibolelo High school, 10 minutes drive through a gravel road from the boma.
Remove enough of the roof shingles, tiles, gravel, or other roofing material down to the tar paper.
One could lean over from one of those little teensy protuberances of rock, ice, gravel and snow and stare straight down at infinity.
She stood in the portico of his chamber and gravely allowed him to admire her.
Dave has a big, deep, booming gruff voice - that sounds like he gargles with gravel every single morning.
After the tramp had washed his feet and his socks, he tip-toed over the gravel to the grass.
We gravelled the driveway.
The lawned rear garden has been landscaped and has a gravelled barbecue area and shed.
Medvedev said Thursday Russia is gravely concerned by what he calls the "large number of people dying" in the Syrian uprising. Medvedev Warns Assad of 'Sad Fate' if Syria Does Not Reform
Half-way the length of the sluice-boxes the finest gravel, yellow and black sand, dropped through perforated sheet-iron grizzles into the The Man from the Bitter Roots
-- Then, Signiors, it keeps you in confidence, and Countenance; and whilst you gravely seem to take a snush, you gain time to answer to the purpose, and in a politick Posture -- as thus -- to any intricate Question. The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume II
He outfitted the animals with rawhide booties to protect their feet from the gravel and rock of the treacherous trails.
More conventionally, a sharp barrier such as gravel or crushed seashells or eggshells sprinkled around plants will stop slugs and snails in their tracks.
He started dumping the sand in the jar and it went into all the spaces left between the rocks and the gravel.
Here posture is better, suitings thicker and footmen are said to survive behind oaks up the odd gravel drive.

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