1 Red Indians the game was; a reed with a note wrapped up in a pebble.
2 But I will put a pebble in my mouth to make is less likely.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 2: 4 Eustacia Is Led on to an Adventure 3 He threw a pebble in the direction signified.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 3: 3 The First Act in a Timeworn Drama 4 He took a green hazel which he had used as a walking stick, split it at the end, inserted a small pebble, and with the lantern in his hand went out into the heath.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 4: 7 The Tragic Meeting of Two Old Friends 5 He had come forward after throwing the last pebble, and the fire now shone into each of their faces from the bank stretching breast-high between them.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 5: 5 An Old Move Inadvertently Repeated 6 It was a linen bag which contained within it a mass of old rusted and discoloured metal and several dull-coloured pieces of pebble or glass.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In VI. The Adventure of The Musgrave Ritual 7 Three days later a message was left scrawled upon paper, and placed under a pebble upon the sundial.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In III. THE ADVENTURE OF THE DANCING MEN 8 Then I got a big pebble from the river, and came and hammered till I had flattened a coil in the decorations, and the verdigris came off in powdery flakes.
9 Look also at the innumerable fish that are swimming in the clear waters, where we can distinguish every pebble that lies at the bottom.
10 One little gray bird, with a white breast, Pearl was almost sure had been hit by a pebble, and fluttered away with a broken wing.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In XV. HESTER AND PEARL 11 As the sun declined to its setting, casting long shadows athwart the soil from every pebble, Jean Valjean sat down behind a bush upon a large ruddy plain, which was absolutely deserted.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GERVAIS 12 Each accursed race has deposited its layer, each suffering has dropped its stone there, each heart has contributed its pebble.
13 She moaned as a sharp pebble cut into her blistered foot.
14 Well, the matter is, sir, that you can't take a girl up like that as if you were picking up a pebble on the beach.
15 His feet ground on the pebbles of the road and for a moment she saw his big shoulders looming up in the dark.