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  • With Vibram ‘Idrogrip’ soles, a “breakthrough compound that significantly improves grip on slick surfaces,” the boots worked surprisingly well on the pea-gravel and small rocks common in the Beaverkill.

    Gear Review: Cloudveil Wading Pants and 8x Felt-Free Wading Boots 2009

  •            As I walk our long pea-gravel drive, I see my father pass through the living room.

    Separate 2010

  • It had a deep, green lawn, with water sprinklers turning on it in the sunlight, a pea-gravel drive shaded by rows of mossy oaks, and a clay tennis court and riding ring in back beyond which the blue lake winked through the cypress trees.

    The Convict and Other Stories James Lee Burke 2010

  • He walked off, his boots crunching on the pea-gravel path.

    Shift Jennifer Bradbury 2008

  • He walked off, his boots crunching on the pea-gravel path.

    Shift Jennifer Bradbury 2008

  • Pea-Gravel Banks: Bass love to spawn on hard, clean, pea-gravel bottoms, which are usually most prevalent in creek arms and coves on the lower (or deeper) ends of reservoirs where siltation is less common.

    The 14 Best Hot Spots for Spawing Largemouth Bass 2004

  • Males clear out 2-to 3-foot-diameter nests on pea-gravel flats in 1 to 10 feet of water.

    The Other Bass Spawn: Tactics for Huge Smallmouth 2004

  • A cricket sawed away in the little palm and pea-gravel oasis in front of the motel.

    Spin 2005

  • They moved down the pea-gravel path to the glass house, where he opened the door, waiting for her to enter before following her in.

    My Seduction Connie Brockway 2004

  • A pea-gravel path encircled a marble-mantled well, its circumference interrupted at regular intervals by bare arbors.

    My Seduction Connie Brockway 2004

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