How To Use Pebble In A Sentence
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Here is a road seen between sunset and moonrise: "... all that remained of day was a beamless amber light along the west: but I could see every pebble on the path, and every blade of grass, by the light of that splendid moon".
The Three Brontës
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The twigs and pebbles and little heaps of dirt were apparently his attempt to recreate the house in miniature.
SACRAMENT
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One is Peter Butler Sr., a retired insurance executive now living in Pebble Beach, Calif., who is an advocate for Eddie Lowery, the 10-year-old boy who famously caddied for the victorious Francis Ouimet at the 1913 U.S.
Bush-League Move by Hall of Fame?
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We had sediments, river mud, pebbles rounded by water action, even the remains of aquatic plants on the site.
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The quartzite shows granoblastic and blastopsammitic texture, with grain sizes varying from coarse sand to very fine pebble and with minor microcrystals of sericite, fuchsite, andalusite and iron oxide, besides detrital tourmaline, rutile, and zircon." link
Archive 2008-03-01
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They bunked at Meadowood resort for a week, then headed for Pebble Beach for golfing.
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It usually contains pebbles and seems to be used for ‘chewing’ in much the same way as a bird's gizzard.
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I'm just a pebble in the stream, a little bitty shareholder.
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There was a tiny old Asian lady sitting on the beach putting pebbles in a metal bowl.
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The Pebble is well built but outshone by its rivals here.
Times, Sunday Times
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The quartzite shows granoblastic and blastopsammitic texture, with grain sizes varying from coarse sand to very fine pebble and with minor microcrystals of sericite, fuchsite, andalusite and iron oxide, besides detrital tourmaline, rutile, and zircon." link
Archive 2008-03-01
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I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. Isaac Newton
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Inherited oil-bearing fluid inclusions identified in those samples are hosted in a well-cemented and partially recrystallized, rounded pebble of sandstone.
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From the outside, our 1930s semi is a bit of a monster: part pebbledashed and completely flat-fronted.
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Hunter picked up a pebble and dropped it over the edge of the cliff, watching it fall to the ocean.
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At first it was thought Pebbles had been pecked by a bird or had been fighting with another cat.
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In cross-section, the deposits consist of unsorted pebbles, cobbles, and boulders in a matrix of fine-grained debris.
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He dropped a pebble from the bridge and waited for the plop.
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It may have had sand rather than pebbles, but it faced due north.
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Three bagpipers led the way, filling the air with their haunting chords as family, friends and Sailors stretched out behind them along the winding, pebble-strewn path and across emerald-colored hills.
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It is hypnotically serene – out in the great wide open, no sounds except the gentle scrape of the wooden oar on the pebbled waterbed, the occasional cry of a bird, the wind rustling through the banana trees.
In search of Errol Flynn's Jamaica
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They consist of particulate rocks that vary in size from sand to pebbles and cobbles.
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The stream babbled over the pebbles.
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Just when you think you've gone the wrong way, the sea becomes visible ahead and the path opens out on to a glorious pebbled beach.
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Those streams which originate in, or run through districts of granite, limestone, graywacke, &c., present pebbles of these respective rocks abundantly along their banks, at points below the termination of the fixed strata.
Memoirs of 30 Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers
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But, as he pressed upon her with a violence, of which the object could not be mistaken, and endeavoured to secure her right hand, she exclaimed, “Take it then, with a wanion to you!” — and struck him an almost stunning blow on the face, with the pebble which she held ready for such an extremity.
Woodstock
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The Pebble is well built but outshone by its rivals here.
Times, Sunday Times
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In species characterized by larger adults, but which also possess fungiform structures and a pebbled surface, there is often an additional morphological feature that would serve to anchor the animal.
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He figured the mishap was a mere "pebble in the road.
For travelers stranded in U.S. by volcano, a flight home can't come too soon
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_gold_, senor, that is, with the solitary exception of a strong wooden box (which, even after so long an interment, offered considerable resistance to my efforts to open it), containing an assortment of what I took to be pebbles of different kinds, but which I afterwards found were unpolished gems.
For Treasure Bound
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The most arresting of these was a frozen landscape of pebbles with raw shrimps and strewn with wild beach plants such as sea arrowgrass, St. John's wort, Portulak and the unfortunately named scurvy-grass.
Noma's Spectrum of Flavors
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Like most four-year-old boys, George left his house like a pebble from a slingshot, careening off parked cars, brownstone gates, fences placed to protect young trees (apparently not just from urinating dogs), and pedestrians prickly from too little coffee or too much workaday dread.
Excerpt: The Whole World Over by Julia Glass
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Your hired motor boat is bobbing up and down at anchor, occasionally nudging the pebbles on the beach as a bigger wave breaks.
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Unlike the new species, these four Tertiary species have flat bases, and none has pebble armor like the new species.
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To stem the tide, so to speak, the Pebble Beach Company has undertaken major projects at major expense.
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Visitors to his Pebble Beach manse find that not only are bathrooms and fridges stocked to the max but so is the supply of athletic equipment.
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Diamonds and precious gems littered the ground like pebbles.
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The waves and the pebbles together constitute a simple example of a system that automatically generates non-randomness.
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I threw pebbles at the hens, and that made them jump and squawk.
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His current home is end-of-terrace, pebbledashed; visitors describe it as 'modest'.
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I heard footsteps crunching towards me across the white pebble courtyard.
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I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. Isaac Newton
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In each bladder was a small quantity of dried pease or little pebbles (as I was afterwards informed).
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Listed below are links to weblogs that reference When a pebble is a jewel:
When a pebble is a jewel
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Pebblehead originally planned to call his titanic masterpiece
Hooting Yard
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One remarkable trait in the lode is the manner in which it splits into blocks and slabs, all the faces of the quartz pebbles being cloven in precisely the same plane.
To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative
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Weeds often cause problems so use an ornamental ground cover or spread pebbles or stone chips.
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She bent down to shake a pebble out of her shoe.
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[Page 300] if it were a specimen of some 'tesselated pavement' fit for a museum, and not a pebble is to be found in its natural state.
Selections from the Letters of Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury to Jane Welsh Carlyle
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Their LZ was a camel trail in the middle of a narrow wasteland filled with grit and pebbles.
Cyclops One
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Feb. 1/CNW/- Northern Dynasty Minerals Ltd. (TSX: NDM; NYSE Amex: NAK) announces that the Pebble Limited Partnership ( "PLP" or the "Pebble Partnership") has provided Mexico, 20 kilometers from Gammon Gold's 4.5 million ounce Ocampo
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And its history is pebbledashed with scandal, from ball-tampering to spot-fixing, from underarm bowling to underhand dealings.
The Sun
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Sioux medicine men collected tiny, glistening pebbles from anthills and used them in medicine rattles.
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Three pebbles, cool and glistening from the river, fell wet into his palm.
ETERNITY • by Bill West
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The pebbles/gravel/snow scrunched beneath our feet.
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A calx is a smartstone, a pebble used for calculating.
Centaur Aisle
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They fell on; I made good my place; at length they came to the broomstaff to me; I defied em still; when suddenly a file of boys behind em, loose shot, delivered such a shower of pebbles, that I was fain to draw mine honour in, and let em win the work.
Act V. Scene IV. The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eighth
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The pebbles/gravel/snow scrunched beneath our feet.
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Choose a watertight container at least 5in deep and cover the bottom with pebbles.
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Although comparatively free from pebbles or lumps of foreign matter, we detect in some of the coarser specimens small particles of mica and grains of other materials, and in one broken specimen the elytron of a small coleopterous insect.
Illustrated Catalogue Of The Collections Obtained From The Indians Of New Mexico And Arizona In 1879 Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1880-81, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1883, pa
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On top of them put some natural objects such as shells, pebbles, leaves, fruit, flowers or plants or bonsai (not dead or artificial).
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Aber Cuawg, singing 'clamorously' to the sick man: 'there are that hear them that will not hear them again!' the sound of the large wave grating sullenly on the pebbles, --
Figures of Several Centuries
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His eyes were cold grey pebbles against the ancient parchment of his complexion.
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In Bessy's Cove we can see bricked-up caves, steep steps leading down to a tiny pebble beach, and a slipway running diagonally up the further side of the cove.
Historic walking trails: smugglers' routes in Cornwall
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Then, while Billy wandered in a vain search for abalones, Saxon lay and dabbled in the crystal-clear water of a roak-pool, dipping up handfuls of glistening jewels -- ground bits of shell and pebble of flashing rose and blue and green and violet.
CHAPTER VI
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Youths have been using pebbles from the surface as missiles to throw at residents' windows.
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One morning, passing through Vessory Bazar, I was greatly shocked at seeing the nabob's elephant take up a little child in his trunk and dash its brains out against the ground; the only reason that could be observed was, that the child had thrown some pebble stones at it; and the only redress the poor disconsolate mother could obtain was a gift of fifty pagodas from the nabob, which is about equal to twenty pounds sterling.
Narrative of a Voyage to India; of a Shipwreck on board the Lady Castlereagh; and a Description of New South Wales
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The grassy banks of the campsite spoon the rocky shoreline of the north Wales coast, where the Irish Sea bubbles over the pebbled beach.
The 10 best campsites for views
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That does not make the spheroidal pebble the pinnacle of the art form.
Archive 2010-05-01
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She was about my age, and it was quickly apparent that we shared similar interests, tastes (natural neutral colours, pebbles and blue glass), and philosophy on life.
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This double-fold money belt is 3 inches wide and is made of the softest pebble grain calfskin imaginable.
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Mainly using source material and so on pebble, ceramic tile, shellfish, sheet glass, beaded glass , after the cutting, carries on the creativity combination again.
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Was the fireplace filled with creamy white pebbles?
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The Old Town is a short walk away and a small pebble beach lies just below the hotel.
Times, Sunday Times
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The lovely innocents proceeding to the destined sacrifice added not a little to the hilarity of the scene; they approached the plain full of sportiveness, some coursing butterflies, others culling flowers, or picking up the shining little pebbles that attracted their notice.
The History of the Caliph Vathek
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Every ruddy pebble on the pounded clay, every blade of yellow barley beyond it, stands out in bold relief before me, vying for my eyes to embrace it and it alone.
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The behaviour of this rascally sycophant incensed me so much, that one day, when I was beleaguered by him and his hounds in a farmer's house, where I had found protection, I took aim at him (being an excellent marksman) with a large pebble, which struck out four of his foreteeth, and effectually incapacitated him from doing the office of a clerk.
The Adventures of Roderick Random
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Since there are as many different Inuksuit as there are pebbles on the beach, it is possible to draw an infinite variety of statues.
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Because in its belly, in this sea many miles from known land, they found some small pebbles.
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The Hissatsu's grip is black polymer with a molded-in deep pebble grain surface.
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Put a few pinholes and pebbles in the bottom of the jugs, as the pebbles will keep them from blowing around when they're empty.
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The pebbles, like those of the boulder-clay of the northern side of the Moray Frith, are chiefly of the primary rocks and older sandstones, and were probably in the neighborhood, in their present rolled form, long ere the re-formation of the inclosing mass; while the shale and the septaria are, as shown by their fossils, decidedly Liasic.
The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland
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He glared at Nikitin but the General Secretary stared him out with hard, pebble-like eyes.
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And the Mars rover people name craters, rocks, pebbles, and all manner of things all the time.
NASA Watch: News: July 2009 Archives
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He glared at Nikitin but the General Secretary stared him out with hard, pebble-like eyes.
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Walking away from the grand old house, we crossed thick clay ploughland studded with flood-smoothed pebbles.
Times, Sunday Times
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I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. Isaac Newton
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The acupressure track has been laid with stone pebbles and tiles.
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Previous studies mainly demonstrated the timing of the first surface exposure of ultrahigh-pressure metamorphic rocks in the Dabie Shan based on the discovery of eclogite pebbles, SHRIMP dating of zircons within gravels, etc.
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My loafers scuffed loose pebbles; a few scattered to spill into the surf churning far below.
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The first seal erupts from the water, close enough to pebbledash me with spray.
Times, Sunday Times
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They give no chance to the second man to leap into the boat, so deep has he to go, pushing on until the pads are out and the boat controlled; but he has barely time to feel the underdraw of the recoiling wave when the straight scour of a keel comes down along the sand and pebbles -- the Ellen Jane,
Somehow Good
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The pathway is formed from large pebbles set in concrete.
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With nothing left for Woods to do but dally with records, it was time to congratulate Pebble Beach for an Open in which the greatest current player in the game won it.
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A 2005 model of a Brilliant Pebble would be smaller and have a better electronic brain than the 1993 one.
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That ominous expression of sympathy from pebbled-glassed Jules, who took her hand and asked her meaningfully how she was?
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He gently shook the jar, and the sand fell through and settled where there was a space between the rocks and the pebbles.
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If there is a group of them working together, one can hear the pebbles clattering.
Times, Sunday Times
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A small subglobular pebble used as a polishing stone for pottery.
Illustrated Catalogue of a Portion of the Collections Made During the Field Season of 1881 Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1881-82, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1884, pages 427-510
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Then we lie without a care on its remote pebble beach at the foot of a sheer rock face.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Copper Harbor Conglomerate consists of crudely stratified pebble-to-boulder conglomerate with thin beds of sandstone.
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This process is repeated and pebbles gradually shift along the beach, a process called longshore drift.
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Still, at the center we sat for a moment and enjoyed the quiet, placed pebbles to anonymously announce our presence, and "unwound" our way out.
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It appeared the boys had got themselves relatively merry before walking home along the pebbled beach.
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When they are standing motionless on pebbles they are not at all easy to pick out.
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The Main Channel conglomerate is made up of a variety of well-rounded felsite, granophyre, and quartz-feldspar porphyry pebbles, suggesting a geologically diverse source terrane.
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We didn't have any bread so we chucked in pebbles to get their attention and keep them flapping and diving for us.
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A coarse screen fitted to the ball mill holds back the pebbles while the clay slip is poured out and led to a blunger through wooden troughs. blunger: In the blunger (mixing ark) plastic sedimentary clay
Chapter 7
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Honey suckle edged the white picket fence and roses, swarmed by busy bees filled the gardens with paths of white pebbles.
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An aged, wooden blockade obstructed the pebbled road, so they had to park Raven's Ferrari in front of it and continue the travel on foot.
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The long, white pebble beach is two minutes away.
Times, Sunday Times
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Once again I remembered the Japanese technique of suggesting a lake by the use of sand and pebbles.
The Education of a Gardener
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The south-eastern slope bears heavy loessic soil, mixed with superficial pebbles and compact loam soil.
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There were different colors of dirt and pebble scattered in between tufts of grass.
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I lingered a long time in the rocky little cove, skimming pebbles of green marble across the waves and picturing the saint arriving on such a day of threatening weather.
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No volleyball or similar on the fringe of shell and pebble beach.
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He had sifted some larger pebbles from the sand and was throwing them absently at the dike of drift and kelp.
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The lower part is a 6 m thick sandstone whose base is characterized by closely spaced erosion surfaces, common phosphate nodules, black quartz pebbles and fragmented bioclastic debris.
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Sandbodies are abruptly overlain by bioturbated sandy muds with flint pebble horizons that represent transgressive reworking of the delta top and deepening into open shelf conditions.
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The sea crashing against the pebble beach whispered rumours of war in this ancient landscape.
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All the webpages say so.) markgritter suggested that it tasted like the actual fruit form of Fruity Pebbles, and Timprov suggested the actual fruit form of white LifeSavers before going on to propose that the cherimoya is the answer to what fruit "fruit flavoring" is supposed to taste like.
Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway
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Although perched on the edge of the Pacific Ocean and exposed to the elements, Pebble Beach is not a true links course.
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State emergency officials say the twister was a half mile wide, tossed cars around like they were pebbles.
CNN Transcript Jun 12, 2008
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Mist them frequently or place the container on a tray of pebbles and water.
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Here also are found the insignificant lightness of the pebble and the mighty lightness of the planet; while between them range the weighty masses, superior to the petty ponderability of the one, and unequal to the firmamental float of the other.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862
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Paving stones and pebbles are set into the ground so you are not in danger of slipping on wet grass.
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Birds were singing, in tune to the slow movement of water over the pebbles.
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Probably obtained from pebbles in the Ojo Alamo conglomeratic sandstone.
Tseh So, a Small House Ruin, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico :
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The Harvard-MBA-toting, former Yahoo! product designer relied on these free-flowing gab sessions--and other forms of inexpensive fact-finding like trade shows, customer surveys and industry reports--to come up with the idea for a new candy called nibs: pebble-sized cacao beans smothered in premium chocolate.
Do Customers Want What You're Selling?
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Tudor Farmhouse has a pretty garden with a stream flowing over large pebbles.
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The rounded conglomerate pebbles consist of siltstone, mudstone, wacke, granophyric igneous rocks, and various intermediate to felsic volcanic rocks, set in a matrix rich in quartz and feldspar grains.
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A few pebbles from my drive in a party balloon partially inflated with water served the purpose.
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The front door of the pebbledashed house had been damaged by the raid.
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There are rocks and pebbles, heaps of different tiny metallic things that resonate.
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The slatey rocks had ceased, and these mountains seemed to consist of a sandstone conglomerate, which was in some places a mere mass of pebbles cemented together.
The Malay Archipelago
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I think we should develop pebble bed reactors and continue to do research on fusion energy.
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This is done with small stones or pebbles, or other convenient small objects.
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This is nothing compared to pavements, pebbledashed with flattened grey blobs.
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You also need a smaller pebble that is easy to spot.
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The pebble went sailing in the air before bonking him on the head.
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It's a lovely place and we walked across stepping stones and skimmed pebbles in the river.
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There are also a few hulking pebbledashed 1930s monsters, some as large as 7,000 sq ft.
Times, Sunday Times
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Walk until your calves ache, then plonk yourselves down on the pebbles for some postprandial pash.
Love is in the (open) air
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For pebbles and larger particles, surface textures, such as weathering pits and percussion fractures, provide important clues to particle history.
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There never was a rock that bounded like a kangaroo, never a pebble that crawled like a beetle seeking a mate, never a sand grain that swam like a water flea.
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The wide, dark horizon, the pale hardpack of stones and pebbles, the drifts of sand.
Vicious Grace
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See Tomkins with a telescope and marine jacket; young Nathan and young Abrams, already bedizened in jewellery, and rivalling the sun in oriental splendour; yonder poor invalid crawling along in her chair; yonder jolly fat lady examining the Brighton pebbles (I actually once saw a lady buy one), and her children wondering at the sticking-plaister portraits with gold hair, and gold stocks, and prodigious high-heeled boots, miracles of art, and cheap at seven-and-sixpence!
The Newcomes
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An avalanche had dropped there; the barricade was the debris of the torn cliffs, their dust, their pebbles, their boulders.
The Metal Monster
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When he writes of "the scream of the maddened beach," he uses the pathetic fallacy; but his science is quite correct, for the swift whirling of myriads of pebbles does produce a clear shrill note as the backdraught streams from the shore.
Side Lights
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New vertebrate species are still being discovered in this ecoregion, such as the recently described burrowing snake Simoselaps morrisi, the Kakadu dunnart (Sminthopsis bindi), and the Kakadu pebble-mound mouse (Pseudomys calabyi), indicating that other species may remain to be discovered.
Arnhem Land tropical savanna
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He compares this to the winnowing of grains in a sieve, or the sorting of pebbles riffled by the tide: it is as if there were a kind of attraction of like to like.
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Item, in the adjoining pigeon-hole, a goodly collection of pebbles with holes in them, preserved for the same reason, in company with a crooked sixpence; item, neatly arranged in fanciful mosaics, several periwinkles, Blackamoor's teeth (I mean the shell so called), and other specimens of the conchiferous ingenuity of
My Novel — Complete
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Human societies have used pebbles, nuts, barleycorn, bones, twigs, yarrow stalks, polished sticks, cards, coins, and dice the list goes on and on to make decisions that are transparently fair.
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The tiny tots tried to explain about maths with the use of small pebbles by counting, addition, subtraction and multiplication.
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That's more than a traditional pebbledash bungalow.
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Many readers, whose lives carry them back before the "forties," taking their stand beneath the broad gateway or pebbled court-yard of our old inns -- the Red Lion, the Bull, or the Crown -- would require a very slight effort of memory to recall the exhilarating spectacle of the arrival and departure of the stage coach of fifty or sixty years ago.
Fragments of Two Centuries Glimpses of Country Life when George III. was King
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a hail of pebbles
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There was a tapping noise at the shutters, as if some one had thrown a handful of pebbles against them.
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I shall engrave it in _alto-rilievo, _ make the words with pebbles on the turf just above high-water mark.
Foul Play
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It had lino flooring and flame-retardant orange curtains, a pebbledash finish on the exterior and small, damp rooms.
Times, Sunday Times
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As he laved that pebbled peak with maddening tenderness, then drew it into his mouth, suckling deep and hard, Emma could no longer bite back a moan of raw delight.
The Devil Wears Plaid
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The biggest are the size of small pebbles.
Eating the Sun: How Plants Power the Planet
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I steered in a drunken weave for a few feet until I fell over, skinning my knees and my hands on the rough pebbles.
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The seabed here is made up of heavy granite pebbles and shingle, so the visibility is often very good.
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The pebble beach gleamed white in the moonlight.
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When viewed from above, the shells appear to represent small piles of pebbles, with the smallest ones on the upper spire and the largest ones on the body whorl.
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This part of the coast has pebble beaches.
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First, dirt is screened to remove pebbles, rocks and organic debris, such as roots.
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They've taken on a pebbledash pallor - a medley of cellulite, mosquito bites and dryness.
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Pebbles and old quarry tiles had been used to fill in the gap, with the whole area brushed with a dry mix of sand and cement to fill in the cracks, and watered in using a watering can.
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They are pebbles that were magicked into looking like the coppers for three hours.
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Light showed in the open doorway and above the forecabin windows, illuminating the pebbled artificial beach.
Bloodhype
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Stones and pebbles are dropped into the exposed corner of the hole, and thunder as they land.
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I have to say, though, that it really is a lot of fun, and heaps better than painting pebbles.
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Feb. 1/CNW/- Northern Dynasty Minerals Ltd. (TSX: NDM; NYSE Amex: NAK) announces that the Pebble Limited Partnership ( "PLP" or the "Pebble Partnership") has provided
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Firefighters were called to the pebbledashed house at 5am yesterday after neighbours spotted smoke.
The Sun
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The Australian Bower Bird decorates his nest with colorful pebbles, bits of glass, and insect wings.
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We listened to the sound of our footfalls on pebbles, on leaves, on twigs.
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They line the burrow tunnel with pebbles and shell fragments.
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Your hired motor boat is bobbing up and down at anchor, occasionally nudging the pebbles on the beach as a bigger wave breaks.
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The white pebbledash facade hides a wooden beamed interior with flagstones and rug-strewn wooden floors.
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In a corner, a gas fire flickered over white pebbles.
Times, Sunday Times
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The appeal of ultra-violet tanning seems to echo an inter-war builder's attachment to pebbledash: a cost-effective way to conceal shoddy exterior work, especially in weather-beaten places.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph
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For me, the pick of the resort was the beach itself - a mixture of fine sand and light pebbles with sun loungers stretching for yards.
The Sun
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As compensation for his lack of height and pebble glasses, he was gifted with a charming smile and a friendly manner.
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Underfoot irregular, pebbles lay like aggregate and chips of stone protruded from the compacted ground, as desiccated and brittle as human bone.
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Paths made from mosaic pebbles and broken paving stones will wind through forest glades, leading the visitor to secret places and moonlit grottoes.
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The rocks (like all the hills in Konkodoo) are a coarse reddish granite, composed of red feldspar, white quartz, and black shorl; but it differs from any granite I have seen, in having round smooth pebbles, many of them as large as a cannon shot.
The Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa, in the Year 1805
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I heard footsteps crunching towards me across the white pebble courtyard.
Times, Sunday Times
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I found rabbit bones as delicate and thin as the finest eggshell porcelain, and crunched across the beaches to pick up pebbles of orange, green and black.
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Basal erosion surfaces are locally overlain by a grey pebble-sized lag of mud chip and pedogenic carbonate clasts.
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But following a swift Labour recovery, little has been heard of the pebbledash people.
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He yanks me back by my hair and slams me back down face-first into the pebbledash rooftop.
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The material used is a mixture of cement, sharp sand and crushed rock or pebbles.
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The long, white pebble beach is two minutes away.
Times, Sunday Times
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But there was a teardrop shaped stone the size of a pebble, colored the cloudy blue of a stormy sea.
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Caleb augured the worst, turned a deaf ear to the trio aforesaid, and was moving doggedly on, his ancient castor pulled over his brows, and his eyes bent on the ground, as if to count the flinty pebbles with which the rude pathway was causewayed.
The Bride of Lammermoor
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Several years ago, while teaching one of those history surveys that gallops across great events as if they were pebbles at Belmont, I asked my students to name a revolutionary.
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The owner then had to use a rattle can, which is an empty soda can filled with pebbles, to encourage their horse to canter at least once around the arena.
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At the base of the Reading Formation are several metres of brown clay-rich sand with glauconite, flint pebbles and oyster shells.
