Their road curved a little to the sea, and at its last bend they were close to the
pebbly ridge on which the Tower was built.
Here one might gaze up the green rocky defile through which the Sly made
pebbly music, and through which wound romantic walks and natural galleries, where far inland you might wander
The Froom waters were clear as the pure River of Life shown to the Evangelist, rapid as the shadow of a cloud, with
pebbly shallows that prattled to the sky all day long.
Far below, the river frothed and flowed over
pebbly shallows, or broke tumultuously over boulders and cascades, in its race for the great valley they had left behind.
So transparent were these waters that the trout with which they abounded could be seen gliding about as if in the air; and their
pebbly beds were distinctly visible at the depth of many feet.
And when a man who is wealthy and is also accused of being an enemy of the people sees this, then, my friend, as the oracle said to Croesus, By
pebbly Hermus' shore he flees and rests not and is not ashamed to be a coward.
A hundred gay and thoughtless young Frenchmen were drawing a net to the
pebbly beach, within dangerous proximity to the sullen but silent cannon of the fort, while the eastern mountain was sending back the loud shouts and gay merriment that attended their sport.
Phoebe's voice had always a pretty music in it, and could either enliven Clifford by its sparkle and gayety of tone, or soothe him by a continued flow of
pebbly and brook-like cadences.
There was now visible a house or houses--for the building spread far--with many windows, and lights burning in some; we went up a broad
pebbly path, splashing wet, and were admitted at a door; then the servant led me through a passage into a room with a fire, where she left me alone.
Occasional brooks with
pebbly bottoms and fern-draped banks gurgled down the shallow gorges in the hill, and offered good camping-grounds every evening on the banks of some rock-studded pool, where swarms of little blue-backed fish, about the size and shape of English trout, gave us a delicious supper.
At last he took a road by the forest skirts, a bypath that dipped toward a broad,
pebbly stream spanned by a narrow bridge made of a log of wood.
Then, going a little farther, Ceres would, perhaps, come to a fountain, gushing out of a
pebbly hollow in the earth, and would dabble with her hand in the water.