gravel-pits

Centuries of human activity have created clearings, hunting grounds, riverside meadows, road systems and trails, forest settlements, narrow-gauge railways, felling sites, and gravel-pits.

Belovezhskaya Pushcha National Park, Belarus 2009

No, it was not a wood, only a wild brake, where there had once been gravel-pits, leaving mounds and hollows studded with brushwood and small trees.

Adam Bede 2004

The gravel-pits were so called because there was no gravel there.

Dr. Jolliffe's Boys Lewis Hough

He looked up to see that the scarf was hanging all right; it was within easy reach of both hands; he gave it a pull to try it, and being satisfied, got over into the field, and started at a jog-trot for the gravel-pits.

Dr. Jolliffe's Boys Lewis Hough

It was your turning away from Wyndham at the gravel-pits that so rankled in my mind, and -- and your friendly meetings with him after.

The Hero of Garside School

We often indeed have just a touch at that period, three days about, and then sleet and rain; but this was a regular good one, thermometer at nineteen Fahrenheit, no wind, no snow, and the gravel-pits bearing.

Dr. Jolliffe's Boys Lewis Hough

The Westonians made the most they could of their opportunity, however, and whenever they had an hour to spare the gravel-pits swarmed with them.

Dr. Jolliffe's Boys Lewis Hough

It was really quite sufficiently clear, that unless yet another boy had got out, and gone skating on the gravel-pits that night, taking Buller's knife with him and losing it, that he himself had been there as he said; and therefore that he was not in the coppice, two miles on the other side of Weston.

Dr. Jolliffe's Boys Lewis Hough

When the snow ceased, the boys took brooms with them to the gravel-pits and cleared a space, which grew larger every time they went to skate on it, some of the hangers-on of the school helping forward the work, for what coppers and sixpences they could pick up.

Dr. Jolliffe's Boys Lewis Hough

"Now, did anyone see you at the gravel-pits, or going there, or coming back?"

Dr. Jolliffe's Boys Lewis Hough