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We chose a campground a pebble's toss from the beach, next to two middle-aged guys from Canada who, it turned out, were there for the nudist scene.

Mexico's endless Pacific beach: sun, surf, sand, seafood and solitude 2009

We chose a campground a pebble's toss from the beach, next to two middle-aged guys from Canada who, it turned out, were there for the nudist scene.

Mexico's endless Pacific beach: sun, surf, sand, seafood and solitude 2009

Jaric had only to apply his will to release the ties that defined the pebble's structure.

Shadowfane Wurts, Janny 1988

And at last it remerges insensibly with the normal mood, even as the ripple from a pebble's impact becomes remerged with the smooth surface of the water at large.

Taras Bulba and Other Tales 1952

Perhaps the pebble's usefulness was over; he could hardly call his career especially fortunate just now.

The New Land Stories of Jews Who Had a Part in the Making of Our Country Elma Ehrlich Levinger

He needed time in which to consider; he must not add a pebble's weight to an avalanche that might go crashing down upon the innocent.

A Hoosier Chronicle Meredith Nicholson 1906

Away from the cabin a pebble's throw, he shook his shoulders and pulled his mind away from her, back to the man with the rifle -- and to Barney.

The Trail of the White Mule B. M. Bower 1905

Before the ripples caused by the pebble's fall had died away, Pennroyal had ceased to live.

Archibald Malmaison Julian Hawthorne 1890

On the roof of the Queen Elizabeth Hall, a pebble's toss from the sandy beach that had already been annexed by a dozen or so under-fives, a team of ex-prisoners and former homeless people from the Eden Project toiled to plant and water the garden.

The Guardian World News Sam Jones 2011

The erstwhile Lady Mills-McCartney used a small portion of her £24. 3million divorce settlement from Sir Paul McCartney to set up a vegan café just a pebble's throw away from her home in Hove's so-called "millionaires 'row" on the beach.

Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010