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  • ELLIE WAITED PATIENTLY as a champagne-colored Bentley convertible pulled through the opening gates and crunched toward her on a long white-pebbled driveway.

    Lifeguard Patterson, James 2005

  • I WAS CURSING SOFTLY as Page and I followed a long, circular white-pebbled driveway up to the main house.

    Mary, Mary Patterson, James, 1947- 2005

  • Sally pulled into the white-pebbled driveway of the Little Fox Hollow Auto Repair Center, which was in what had once been a carriage house for another grand estate.

    The Honor Farm John Westermann 1996

  • The herald shrugs and leads him back along the white-pebbled stones.

    The Towers of the Sunset Modesitt, L. E. 1992

  • And quick to the white-pebbled bottom it fell [12-6];

    Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 Charles Herbert Sylvester

  • Well, well, ancient or modern, there is not a lovelier ride by white-pebbled beach and wide stretch of wave.

    Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses Frederic S. Cozzens

  • It glides like a living thing through the very heart of the forest, sometimes creeping softly on, as though with muffled feet, through a wilderness of aquatic plants, sometimes dancing gayly over a white-pebbled bottom, now making a sunshine in a shady place, across the mossy roots of the majestic old trees, and anon leaping with a grand anthem adown the great solemn rocks which lie along its beautiful pathway.

    The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe

  • [12-6] If he could see the white-pebbled bottom of the well, it must have been a shallow one, or perhaps merely a square box built around a deep spring.

    Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 Charles Herbert Sylvester

  • I lifted the wood latch on the gate and went up the white-pebbled path.

    Blue Ridge Country Jean Thomas 1945

  • There appeared to him not the rolling undulations of the black-topped forest, not the tossing surface of the inland sea, nor the white-pebbled beach laved by its pulsing waters.

    The Mississippi Bubble Emerson Hough 1890

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