pebbles

Myra hadn't seem them pick anything up; she decided they had brought pebbles from the beach.

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Upon this he brought me a cotton bag and giving it to me, said, Take this bag and fill it with pebbles from the beach and go forth with a company of the townsfolk to whom I will give a charge respecting thee.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Gustavo Kuerten: Kuerten's heavy topspin groundstrokes leave his racket like large pebbles from a slingshot.

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Like pebbles from a catapult the milkmaids shot to the gate.

Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard 1922

Like pebbles from a catapult the milkmaids shot to the gate.

Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard 1921

But after having sought and proved them, and not found what it loves, the soul lets them go, and passes on its way, like the child who loves apples, pears, dolls, and other trivial things the handsomest it can see, and thinks that to amass little pebbles is to be wealthy; but as it grows up it loves living dolls, and amasses things necessary to human life.

The Heptameron of Margaret, Queen of Navarre 1855

The roots of heaths are extremely fine and hair-like, and the shelter afforded by the pebbles is so congenial to them, that, if one of the stones be taken out, a cluster of fine, white, vigorous roots will be found below it.

The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally Jane 1845

Only stones; how many? how big were they? could they be better described as pebbles?

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The pebbles are the other things that matter like your job, your house and your car.

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The casting of the pebbles is a symbolic act of actually saying no to all those things that would tempt a pilgrim away from the path of righteousness.

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