| 单词 | gravel |
| 例句 | They parked the big rigs on a gravel bar, unloaded the ATVs, and continued toward the bus in the smaller, more maneuverable machines. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z But even through the iron bars Meggie could see nothing promising except for tall rhododendron bushes and a broad gravel drive that soon disappeared between them. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z The flies crawled upon it, and here and there the sharp points of gravel pressed up through the flesh. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I get up and brush the dust and gravel from my clothes. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z He followed the directions given to him and was soon putting on his turn signal at the gravel road. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z When Dad had returned home the night before, I heard his truck roll up the gravel driveway. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z He had a quiet intensity, a bit of gravel in his voice. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z I remember the crisp smell of frozen earth as I approached the house and the feel of ice and gravel crunching beneath my boots. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z A car from out of town backfired in the vicinity of the bank, and everybody on the sidewalk dropped down and grabbed gravel. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z He turned around and pushed off, jumping the curb at the edge of the lot, and glided down to the gravel. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z A cold wind sends the big dry leaves of plane trees rolling down the gravel lanes of the Jardin des Plantes. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z I set that ball down on the gravel. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z Once well out of Hampden, we turned off the main highway and onto a stretch of gravel road that I had never seen. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z I heard the sound of wheels on gravel and sat up on my elbows. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Trey holds Kayla’s hand as he follows me and Jay across the gravel parking lot next to the church. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Rowsby Woof was sitting on the gravel path, wide awake and shivering in the cold. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z My feet slip in the sloping gravel—it’s like running in sand, and I overcompensate by pitching forward. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z All too soon, there was a crunch of gravel outside as Uncle Vernon’s car pulled back into the driveway, then the clunk of the car doors and footsteps on the garden path. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z We looked back to see a length of rope uncoil itself and float across the gravel at ankle height. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z He was swept by the memory of his humans’ car roaring away in its stinging spray of gravel. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z The sound of tires on their gravel driveway came through the open window. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z Before the train has even stopped, I drop to the gravel and stride toward the sleepers. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z It stood in a large, well-tended garden, with shrubbery at one side and a gravel drive sweeping up to the front door. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He picked up his skateboard and started walking out toward the road, through the gravel. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z When he finally sets me on the gravel, he brushes off my jacket. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Beverly stopped occasionally to beat Ida Nee’s baton against the small rocks and gravel on the side of the road. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z It was a gravel road engraved with washboard bumps and broken by occasional pitlike ruts that could crack the frame of a Land Rover. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Trouble was snoring in the gravel but he, Grub Kelp, had faced down the Mud Monster. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z The main path looked like an arm with the veins stripped out, long slashes where flooding had washed the gravel away. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Then the car door opened and shut, and the motor went broom-broom and, edging off with a crunch of gravel, faded into the distance. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z The knowledge that the gathering was safely round the corner came to Hazel in the form of a recollection of Silver’s head and paws breaking through gravel. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Imagine riding a giant steel brush over a bed of gravel all day. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Audrey chewed a bite of soggy pancake, but I imagined it tasted like gravel to her, the way everything had tasted like gravel to me since Jesse’s death. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z The gravel had been put down to make a foundation, the pump had been installed, and the cement had been poured and left to dry. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z I smack into the ground so hard and fast, I’ll be picking gravel out of my chin for a week. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Scrubby trees stood out from gravel banks, and beneath them, here and there, were the red-flushed, spawned-out bodies of salmon, insects happy around them. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z When the grass changed to gravel, I looked down to keep my balance, and when I looked up again, the girl was alone. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z As a result, the gravel beds of the streams which the salmon seek out for spawning received an unusual abundance of eggs. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z I walked down the damp gravel driveway looking at the villa through the trees. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z However, just as we had finished supper and Mr Taylor was pouring for me a glass of ale brewed by a neighbour, we heard footsteps approaching on the gravel outside. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Like trying to climb a mountain of gravel. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z My voice sounds like gravel compared to hers. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z My oldest brother, Tony, drove rigs, hauling gravel or scrap, trying to scrape together enough money to marry the girl down the road. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I bend down, starting to clean the gravel from my knees. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The train swung around as it slid; then it began to roll, showering me with gravel and debris. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z The car skidded over gravel on the road. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Ransdorp is a village on the other side of the river, with farmhouses and a few little shops lining wide gravel streets. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z In no time, I’m leading the pack of us along the gravel path. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z I must move now or be dragged in the gravel and left behind. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z They have their trays lowered and are drinking tea and playing Snap, fumbling the slippery cards, laughing like cars on gravel when they cheat or make mistakes. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z But Briony was hobbling away on soft white soles across the fiery gravel. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z A tank rumbled over the hill, dust and gravel spewing from its treads. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z That was where Ibni got the gold, from the leather sacks, heavy with trash and gravel, brought in each week from the mines in the southern desert. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z Snell was there three days before he went to the penitentiary, so drunk out on the gravel drive that Mrs. Ulysses Swett's automobile ran over his right hand. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z She took her baton and started beating the rubber tip of it into the gravel of the driveway. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z I tumbled out of the truck as it was coming to a rest on the gravel alongside the road. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The prop wash peppered me with stinging bits of loose dirt and small gravel, but no big rocks. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “The field at Indian Creek Elementary is all gravel,” said Luma. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z They sank their blades into the sea of stone—loosened by swings of Jake’s pick—and heaved it backward in a pitter-pattering shower of gravel. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z She came round the side of the house to the front, onto the gravel she had hobbled across barefoot that afternoon. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z A gravel rake lay rusting in the driveway; the lawn was parched and shabby. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Harry heard his heavy footfalls on the graveled drive, and then a car door slammed. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z They took gravel from the ground and rubbed it over their hands and arms, their heads and feet, and they knelt and performed salaat. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z He ran down the gravel to the main road and then started running west away from Washington and Millsburg—and the old Perkins place. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z Their road made a fork with another road, and now they walked on a gravel shoulder. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z I stand up, brushing gravel off my pants. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z But even then, as he swerved back up onto the porch, Mercedes usually managed to uncork a half-dozen infinitely annoying gravel bits that plinked around his feet before he attained her son’s door. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Drip, drip, drip, into the white gravel until, saturated, it could no longer receive and a second tiny pool appeared. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z There was a four-foot drop to the ground, and he swung himself down to what felt like gravel. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z And then Raymie saw two hands on the steering wheel, and just as the station wagon pulled into the driveway, spraying gravel and dust, a voice called out, “Louisiana Elefante, get into the car!” Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z Cars slumped along the mud and gravel roads at twenty or thirty miles an hour like sluggish beetles beneath the overhanging trees. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z She tries to slide but the snow is too soft, not icy enough, and there are cinders and pieces of gravel in it. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z To her right a scree of small rocks and gravel sloped up to a cliff of crumbling limestone. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z He moved back to the desk, intending to try the drawers, but with the heavy expectation of failure; and as he did so, he heard the faint crunch of tires on gravel. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z As he spoke, I pictured the dusty gravel road by his house. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z The gravel paths were moist and the grass was wet with dew. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z We walked across the gravel under the trees to the hotel. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z He lay where he had fallen and sobbed, his legs folded, his face pressed blindly to the gravel. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z The bread was in the oven and Luke was picking up lint by hand from the living room rug when he heard tires on the gravel driveway. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z They heard footsteps crunching on the gravel outside. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Ivy kept walking until she saw a familiar gravel driveway. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Seven or eight people huddled around something on the gravel. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z She put down both bags, picked the skirt up and brushed away the crumbs of gravel that stuck to it. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z From below them they heard the rapid scraping of boots on gravel. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes in the evenings we could walk down the raked gravel paths. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z When the young girl went back to the window and looked down, the damp patch on the gravel had evaporated. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z It overlooked Baby Kochamma’s ornamental garden, the gravel driveway looped around it, sloping down towards the bottom of the slight hill that the house stood on. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z And then a glob of saliva flew like a baseball from his mouth and over the gravel. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z West, he decided, for no special reason, and he began to walk that way, following the pathway nearest the north edge, where the gravel looked freshest. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z He rounded a corner, his feet scrunching on the gravel. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z They squat and sit on the gravel road in four family groups. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Military trucks speed by occasionally, raising clouds of dust and spits of gravel. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z The giraffes were following gravel paths, were pausing to munch sugar pears from tree- tops. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z At night I thought I heard his feet dragging around the house, scraping gravel. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The spyglass flew out of Sticky’s hand and onto the gravel path...and before the boys could gather themselves, Jackson had brushed past Constance—knocking her roughly to her knees—and was upon them. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z My stomach tightens with the swoop of her voice, the gravel in it keeping us both tied to earth. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z The two policemen whose car drew up on the gravel forecourt a little later asked a lot of questions, to which neither Elinor nor Meggie had many answers. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z No puddles gleam in the gravel, no fire brigade swarms out front. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z My footsteps on the roadside gravel sloughed in echo from the wall of trees and brush. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The floor was a gritty cement and gravel mix, sticky in places, spotted with what looked like oil slicks. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Immediately after a bend and a rise on the gravel road we came upon my uncle’s house. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z I kicked at the gravel, letting the dust cover my legs. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z The driveway was empty, two brown tire tracks streaking through the white gravel. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z The drive was a ribbon now, a thread of its former self, with gravel surface gone, and choked with grass and moss. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z A pond enclosed within a black stone wall that is surrounded by white gravel. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The tires spun against the gravel and the windshield wipers squealed to life. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z The moon was set, and it was very dark; Bessie carried a lantern, whose light glanced on wet steps and gravel road sodden by a recent thaw. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Hoping to lower the price they scatter insults over their sisters’ wares, like irritating handfuls of harmless gravel. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The leaves swirling, the gravel crunching, the crisp smell of winter. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z From Thursday through Sunday, in the evenings, he goes to a local bar, a gray stucco building with plywood over the windows and a gravel parking lot. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z I heard the sudden crunch of footsteps on gravel and, hardly aware of what I was doing, turned away spasmodically and pretended to inspect the trunk of a nearby tree. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z They moved down the gravel to find fresh water and he washed his hair again as well as he could and finally stopped because the boy was moaning with the cold of it. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z His paws were half buried in the wet gravel and he was nosing at something large and flat on the waterline. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z There, in the distance, he could just make out a jutting promontory of ice and the blessed black slash of a dark gravel shore. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z As the rabbits stared down they could discern, here and there, a very fine scour, like smoke—chalk and powdered gravel carried along by the river as dust is blown on the wind. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The times I heard a car turning around in the gravel at night. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z Kingshaw stood just outside the door, moving his toes about in the loose gravel, listening to the soft, rough sound it made. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z Her foot almost slipped, sending a spray of gravel over the edge. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z He ran hard along the gravel shoulder of the oil-top road, racing against the knowledge that if anything had happened to his kids or to Naomi, he’d be to blame. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z I dropped the bike in the gravel and walked over to the shark. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z Jake swung the pickax to break up the gravel, which had cemented itself together with caked dust. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z Finally, in the seconds that seemed longest, the truck bounced, shimmied, and slowly trailed up the dirt and gravel driveway of our great-grandmother’s house. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z Around midnight, I heard the familiar car chugging up Overlook Road and pulling into the gravel. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z Returning to the village late in the day, with her baskets and belly full of apples, Alyce cut through the manor field, near where the villagers had dug a pit for the quarrying of gravel. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z We crossed the gravel lot to the dock where the fishermen stood. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z Rocks and pieces of gravel poked up at my back. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z I sat down in the middle of the gravel road and patted a spot next to me. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z The wind swirled around him, gravel crunched beneath his boots, while ahead the white ribbon followed the lines of the hills, rising higher and higher, until it was lost beyond the western horizon. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z He remembered the Enborne, its surface broken by gravel spits and plant growth. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Torrents of rain, miles of mud and gravel. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z I decreased the magnification on the map a bit, then pulled back far enough to confirm that the northern edge of the hill ended in a cliff of sand and crumbling gravel. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z I could hear the tires spin onto a gravel driveway just beyond the door. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I heard him racing across the gravel, yelling, “Maia!” to kick-start his flying sneakers. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z After a mile or so he turned onto a gravel road that mostly followed the river. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z The gravel track led downhill into a narrow belt of silver birch and rowan. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He fell, rolling over gravel and weeds and came to a stop. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Tires crunching over the gravel, they passed several signs advertising that they were on private property. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z When he found the symbol for the double line on the map’s legend he saw that it stood for an improved gravel road. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z A gravel driveway divided the Finch yard from Miss Rachel’s. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z She’s out of the car before I am and heading toward the first bookmobile—an Airstream trailer from the 1950s—which is across the gravel and across the field. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z I move off the gravel to walk on the grass. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Parked on the gravel was an unprepossessing Ford sedan. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z What had Will done in that gravel pit to help Tansy with the calves who would not be born? The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z They wandered off the terrace onto the gravel path between the roses. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z They drove a couple of miles past the store and then turned off onto a gravel road that wound up a small hill through thick foliage. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z I came out of the bottoms onto a gravel bar and stood and watched them in the moonlight. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes working white men in their uniforms or their navy striped suits drove up and down the gravel road that ran alongside our yard, making the dust and small rocks grind under their wheels. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Soon the gardeners would be astir, brushing the first leaves from the lawns and the paths, raking the gravel in the drive. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z The bird flew low, so Loki’s feet were dragged over stones and gravel, over mountainside and over trees. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z The gravel path burns and digs into the soles of my feet and breaks through the hard calluses. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Millard searched through the gravel until he found a sharpened stone, and, using another stone as a hammer, he chipped an inscription of his own below the others. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z The man next to me said, “Aww, is that all—” Another noise, this time a little louder, a grating and crunching sound like walking on gravel. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z Hands yanked him down in time, the bullet skidding off the rock and into the gravel with a sharp hiss. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z As we walked across the moonlight gravel to the porch he disposed of the situation in a few brisk phrases. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z When we were out on the gravel drive she said, “Where have you been?” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z The gravel road was getting narrower as we approached the bottom of the hill. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z The parking lot is so full, cars are parked in the gravel lot next door that the church owns. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z He isn’t one toe on the gravel driveway—not one toe—when he hears Ray’s bark. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Marigold turned back to the shoe in her hand, just as the mail truck’s tires began to scrape across the gravel parking lot. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z I felt like cursing as I watched her hurrying back into the building, hearing her flat-heeled shoes crunching the graveled walk. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z He could hear its breath and the loose gravel flying under its paws. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z We both look in the direction of the noise, and a truck speeds up the gravel road. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The surface was sometimes loose gravel, sometimes patches of slime. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z I’m lying on gravel at the side of the road. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z His face was streaked with dirt; there were pieces of gravel buried in his hair. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z The car creeps along a half mile of crunchy gravel. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z A boy comes toward them out of the smoky twilight, no older than Marie-Laure, streaked with ash, pushing a wheeled dining cart through the gravel. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z He made his way down a steeply descending gravel road to the river, crossed the wide expanse of green water on a steel bridge, and parked in front of the National Reemployment Service building. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Milkman followed his finger, and hobbled over the gravel and ties to the station house. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z The skyblue Plymouth turned in at the gate and crunched over the gravel driveway crushing small shells and shattering little red and yellow pebbles. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z This followed the line of the river, which ran straight from almost as far away as they could see, flowing smoothly without fords, gravel shallows or plank bridges. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The lawns were “rather poor,” the gravel walks “not pleasant to the eye nor to the foot.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Every now and then, she flipped her hair over her shoulder and I thought Burl was going to melt into a puddle right there in the gravel driveway. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z “Suppose somebody forgets to fasten that seat belt of yours,” she said in that voice that sounded like she was chewing gravel. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z When I crossed the highway at the edge of town, the pavement turned to gravel, and I crunched along about a mile past the cotton gin until I came to the Rydells’ beat-up shack. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z After a few steps, I stop and kick the ground, spraying up the dust and loose gravel. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z They rattle down the long gravel lanes, past pit cottages and trash barrel fires, past laid-off miners squatting all day on upturned crates, motionless as statues. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The gravel crackled under my wheels as I braked in our driveway. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z There was some gravel on the hill where they had stopped before, and the car went right along. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z It lay at the outskirts of the town, on low ground, like a rubbish dump, and as I walked up and down the gravel paths, I could smell the stagnant salt marshes in the distance. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Summer thunderstorms had carved ruts into the baked earth, exposing bits of gravel and shelves of sandstone in the process. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z His voyage to Europe had shown him that a really good gravel path “should be as even and clean as a drawing room floor.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z When he moved his lips, he tasted the acid of dirt and grass and gravel. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z She sits and her cane flexes against the gravel and the boy clicks his buttons in spasmodic flurries. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z I hear gravel crunching under tires, car doors slamming, and next thing I know I’m surrounded by doughy flesh, flowered prints, and gloved hands. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z The Far Common was still empty, and I walked alone down the wide gravel paths among those most Republican, bankerish of trees, New England elms, toward the far side of the school. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Brushes the small bits of gravel from her palms. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z At the hospital, Finn was poked, prodded, X-rayed, plucked free of embedded gravel, rubbed down with stinging antiseptic, and swaddled in bandages. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z That could be little pieces of gravel or ground-up oyster shells if you happen to have oyster shells around. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z He tilted his chin down and appeared to be thinking very hard about the gravel at his feet. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z A shadowy figure was walking on the gravel road. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z They wanted gravel and we produced no gravel. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The flowers swung in the light breeze, tickling her face as she crossed the terrace and carefully negotiated the three crumbly steps down to the gravel path. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Diego sat on the rusted hood and traced lines in the dirt, while I kicked at the gravel on the side of the road. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z But the water had rounded most of the rocks so that they were no good for skipping, and anyway, there was always a wave to grab them before they could reach the gravel. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z They crossed the broad stone plaza, then a modest rock garden, then waited as Constance shook the gravel from her shoes. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z I hear gravel crunching behind me, and then August appears at my shoulder. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Sometime later, Granddad slowed down and turned onto a bumpy gravel road that climbed up a long hill. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z His breath came short and as his head went under he could hear a faint grating of gravel along the bottom. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Naomi was cooking the last tortilla when she heard Henry’s truck pulling onto the patch of gravel by the back porch. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z She clicks and tugs until the horse finally steps onto the gravel. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z He unzipped his parka and let it fall to the gravel and the boy stood up and they undressed and walked out into the water. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z When I opened my eyes and looked down, I saw the boy from the gas station riding his skateboard, pushing himself up the slight incline to our parking lot where the gravel changed to asphalt. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z She could hear chickens were clucking outside the windows, scratching for bits of gravel in the grass. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z There was only Robbie, and the clothes on the gravel, and beyond, the silent park and the distant, blue hills. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z It fell like poured gravel, and the fiberglass shook like it was coming apart. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The president hears footsteps on the gravel and the familiar voice of former Illinois congressman Isaac Arnold calling his name. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z By August not one of the young salmon that had emerged from the gravel beds that spring remained. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Joe was standing on a gravel bar in the Dungeness River, studying a pool, looking for salmon, and the sound of rushing water muffled the warden’s footfall. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Dad pulled his sketchbook out of his Kellner & Newton Messenger Bag—Dad was never far from his sketchbook—and stepped off the wooden planks onto the gravel to sketch the nearest row of broken pillars. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z He bumbled in the gravel, dodged a rolling wheel, then ran to me and leaped into my arms. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z I dragged my feet along the gravel of our driveway. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z Together we walked down the gravel path in the park in the dark, under the trees and then out from under the trees and past the gate into the street that led into town. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z He remembered the feel of the gravel through his thin-soled shoes, he could feel it now, and the icy touch of the handcuffs on his wrists. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The light grew stronger and soon he could see that a little way ahead there was an open track of bare gravel. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z His truck was parked at a wild angle on the gravel patch, but all the lights were off. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Tires crackle over the gravel right next to my feet. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z He opens the padlocks, leaves them hanging on the doors, and jumps down to the gravel. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Hilly jumps and drops her cigarette into the gravel. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z It was Blackberry who bullied the stupefied Pipkin to his feet and forced him to limp the few yards to the gravel spit. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I walk along the gravel, between the slabs of overgreen lawn Serena Joy is sitting under the willow tree, in her chair, cane propped at her elbow. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z I pulled off the highway and onto the gravel, then stepped out of the car and gazed up at Buck’s Peak. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Some trailers were parked in the Danemoor Farm lay-by, despite the hill of gravel left there to ward off Gypsies. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z For a terrifying moment, I lost ground, my feet slipping in the gravel. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Dandelion, reacting instantly, shot out of the grass to the open gravel. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z It sounded as though a giant was walking on loose gravel. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z The long stay in the hospital had left him weak—too weak to walk steadily on the gravel shoulders of the road. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z The gravel made her hobble and she left it and went on up the flower bed. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z As Voldemort’s anger throbbed inside him, Harry’s scar threatened to burst with pain, and he wrenched his mind back to his own body, fighting to remain present as the prisoners were pushed over gravel. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z He tied his reins round a post of the lych-gate, strode up the gravel path, and took hold of the sword. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z He peels out of the gravel driveway in his car. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z There was rustling behind me, and foot- and hand-steps on the gravel. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Skim ice has formed atop puddles in the gravel paths. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z It closed its tail and let the tips trail in the gravel. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z The dragon dove down and skidded to a halt, sending sprays of gravel in every direction. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z I stomped my foot and then I kicked at gravel, sending it tumbling into the rhododendron bushes along the side of the driveway. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z The only thing she could make out in the dark was the gravel forecourt in front of the house. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z After an hour, the bus went from the highway to the Thruway, then—an hour later—off a sharp exit to a two-lane road, then to a gravel road, and then to a dirt road. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z He was grabbing at gravel, but there was nothing big enough to slow him down. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z The children were led up a long gravel path toward the Institute buildings. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z There wasn't a rest stop around, so he pulled off on a county road, onto the gravel that passed as a shoulder. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z Cabot made his way down the gravel road slowly, and after passing two houses on the right, realized that he’d forgotten to ask the grocery store kid which house belonged to Cullen Witter. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z Finally, at the end of a short gravel street, some house trailers. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z He sits down on the gravel, and I push Caleb in front of me. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z He remembered how the gravel crunched underfoot, how they hopped the first step onto the bridge. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z She rubbed her body with the yellow soap and a handful of sandy gravel until she tingled. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Whitewashed cottages, quaint except for the satellite dishes sprouting from their roofs, lined a small grid of muddy gravel streets. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z A gray station wagon stood on the gravel in front of a house that was bigger than the school Meggie had been attending for the last year. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Marie-Laure reads Jules Verne in the key pound, on the toilet, in the corridors; she reads on the benches of the Grand Gallery and out along the hundred gravel paths of the gardens. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z But here, on the Test, there were no submerged branches and no gravel spits or beds of weed above the surface at all. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z At that moment I heard a slight scraping of gravel to my right. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z He wanted to swing die pick or kneel down with the string or shovel die gravel. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z They were driving down the gravel road, going east from Magdalena to catch the highway near Socorro. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Women and children and old people sit or lie on the gravel. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z Then we heard Burl’s truck on the gravel driveway, and me and Wishbone ran out to greet the Odoms. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z A passing car on a gravel road had thrown up pebbles and broken out the large front window of Rocinante and it had to be replaced. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a circular, sloping patch of ground, with a steep gravel driveway looping around it. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Right at the beginning of the second feature, he started the car and moved it slowly down the gravel aisle. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, amid much shouting and splashing, he stumbled out of the water and dragged the thrashing salmon up onto the gravel bank. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z There was no path here, the slope was steep and slippery with gravel, and Kate—unlike her pursuers—was dragging a ladder and carrying someone on her back. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z The water was six or seven inches deep, with a gravel bottom. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z Some of the beams had snapped and fallen in, and as he passed, a trickle of gravel hit his neck and shoulders, reminding him that the Dozmary Mine had been kept locked for a reason. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z Meggie squeezed her eyes shut tight, and didn't open them until she could hear the gravel under the car tires once more. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Boots are crunching in the gravel between the paving stones, coming at a trot. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Their car—a car you’d expect, a black Ford sedan—was parked at the bottom of the hill, in the gravel lot behind the Science Building. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z When it was time for work detail, we were assigned together to the gravel pit, where we worked side by side breaking rocks. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z One short bit of road running thru the center, paved back in the day, never upkept since, goes to gravel real quick. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z A magpie fluttered out of one of the rhododendron bushes growing near the house, and a couple of fat sparrows pecked busily at invisible insects in the gravel, but that was all. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z She started to say “I think it might be a . . .” but then slipped on loose gravel, and her last word was lost as she scrambled and caught herself before she could fall. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z But there's plenty of gravel around thanks to the crumbling cement of the chimney and building trim, so the birds on our roof are doing okay. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z We walked in silence down a winding gravel path lined by a row of low hedges. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z When he heard gravel crunch, he knew the twins were coming. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The steps in the gravel sounded heavy and ponderous, like those of a large man. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He pulled into an unmarked gravel parking lot. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z I mean, I was really furious by this time, and I started walking down the path from the top and out across the white gravel courtyard. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z He eases himself onto the edge and slides carefully to the gravel. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Shawn was facedown on the gravel, lying in a pool of blood that looked pink in the glare from the headlights. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The drill came up first with topsoil and then with gravel and then with white sea sand full of shells and even pieces of whalebone. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Just as I was about to squeeze him in a hug, we heard tires crunching in the gravel outside the boathouse. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z This brought a loud laugh from Rainie, which sounded like someone had dropped an empty bucket on a gravel bar and then had kicked it. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z They were forced by the soldiers to scramble down the high gravel embankment, and the slippery stones slid away underfoot. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z We walked so many times on the same gravel road that I could close my eyes and still avoid all the big rocks on the road. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z We walked and walked, our shoes crunching on the gravel road, the jeep’s engine grumbling beside us like a cheap lawnmower. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z At long intervals the train crosses a road, gravel or thin and paved, with a white line down the middle. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z They walked along concrete or asphalt, or on roadside gravel. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Two minutes later she was crossing the rose beds and the gravel path in front of the Triton fountain, scene of another mystery that clearly foretold the later brutalities. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “Let me tell you how it is,” Styx said, his voice as scratchy as gravel. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Our rocks and pebbles, the sand and gravel you see: these were Ymir’s teeth, and the fragments of bones that were broken and crushed by Odin and Vili and Ve in their battle with Ymir. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z The distance back to the front of the building seemed miles away, and in his haste Fadi faltered, tripping on loose gravel. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z Ahead of her was a flat gravel surface, and about ten paces away she could see the high wall of the clock tower. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z We drove down the smooth gravel drive and out of the white gates. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z When the morning came, my neck was stiff and my elbows sore, but the Wildcat was in the gravel driveway, parked a little farther down from the house. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z We gallop past the apple orchard and run down the gravel road that spits us out onto the wide meadow along the riverbank. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z I walk along the gravel path that divides the back lawn, neatly, like a hair parting. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z The Forest Service truck jolted up the white gravel drive, and Flossie excused herself to greet the new arrivals at the door and usher them in. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z O. B. Dickerson spit in the gravel, swung around, and followed them, his big boots grinding gravel. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z My left knee is a bloody mess: one large rock jutting out of the center, with small gravel particles surrounding it. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Other villagers, using tools borrowed from the visitors, pounded the rocks to break them up into gravel. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z He sits on a bench and sketches the town houses in the Place des Vosges, walks along the desolate gravel paths in the Luxembourg Gardens. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The back yard was strewn over with white gravel. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z When I reached the peak, I crept up the driveway, wincing each time a bit of gravel snapped beneath my tires. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The gravel quiets to smooth, yellow dust and I slow down before Mother sees how fast I’m driving. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z I kick the gravel, and then kick it again. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Our feet crunched on the gravel path leading to the front door. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z I drop the keys in the pocket of my dress, and kick a few pieces of gravel around. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Meggie was just thinking it would never end when the trees suddenly receded, and the drive brought them to an open space covered with gravel and surrounded by carefully tended rose beds. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z I halt, staring at the gravel beneath my feet as this fact sinks in. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z He started pacing through the sea of chunky gravel. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z I zoom in on the metal curlicues and then pan up from the gravel path to Phil’s face. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z She came out on a gravel bar, shook the water from her body, and disappeared in the thick timber. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z If the child wouldn’t, or did and left too soon, Junior threw gravel at him. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z He turned onto the gravel drive and pulled the truck in alongside the house. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Some of them nurse minor wounds or brush gravel from their clothes. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z The cement was cooling, and the tetherball poles made shadows across the gravel. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The indirect afternoon light, reflected from the gravel and filtered through the fanlight, filled the entrance hall with the yellowish-orange tones of a sepia print. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z At Troniat, a small station that one of the men recognized, the doors were suddenly thrown open and they tumbled out into the darkness onto a gravel path. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z But the image of him flopping down on the gravel shoulder, confused, was worse. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z And as she spoke, they could hear the sound of boots on gravel, and a voice issuing orders, and the jingle of metal. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z On the other was a dirt and gravel road that led through an open field, treeless, with high yellow grass. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I jump to the gravel and run ahead to the flat cars. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Where this morning a battalion of tractors had plied the gravel paths, hauling carts loaded with fish and peat-bricks up and down from the harbor, now those carts were being pulled by horses and mules. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z It had a good gravel bottom, so I drove through the water till I got around the wreck, then went up the slanted red-clay bank and got back to the road. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z A strong wind whipped up dust, debris, and gravel and forced the bus to slow down to a snail’s pace. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z The half-moon was up before I heard the creaking of the harness and the crunching of the gig on the gravel drive. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z They asked us a couple questions we had no answers for before they took off, lights flashing, kicking up a cloud of dirt and gravel, dusting up the sun. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z The bottom was gravel—spilled out by the rapids—but then it ended. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z Then we roll backward, the tires peeling across the wet asphalt, crunching bits of gravel. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Our tires kicked up gravel that nicked my legs as we approached T Wharf. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z The path was easier now, made of crushed gravel and graded rocks, and he cracked his whip to urge the four black stallions on faster. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z “We get Inej’s feet patched up—” She flexed them, then stood, testing her bare soles on the gravel. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z I meant to shout it, but it came out unnaturally calm, low and raspy like the sound of cars crunching slowly over gravel. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The jarring landing sends me sprawling on the rooftop, gravel under my cheek. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z The small red gravel roads are swarmed body to body with people in their black shirts and pants. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The blood had poured down Fenwick's leg, and left spatters on the gravel. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z They rolled their bikes over the gravel, not in any hurry. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z Ray’s nubby tail wags so hard it seems like it could snap off and bounce down the gravel driveway. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z I watched its tires spin dangerously close to the gravel at the roads edge. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z Just to look at the gravel in the back yard where the trees were, where the carhouse was, and wonder if it was all a dream. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z He drove down the side road scattering fine gravel behind his wheels. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The hillsides were a patchwork of sand, green vegetation, and clusters of boulders stitched together by crisscrossing gravel paths. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z The paths are gravel and the toilets don’t overflow. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z He had just turned off the DS and put it back into his pocket when he heard the scrunch of gravel behind him that told him he was no longer alone. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z But as soon as the tires hit the gravel road, his dad jumped. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Taking small steps, I walked along the gravel path back to the school. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z In medium bowl, whisk together cement mix, salt, and gravel. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Billy and the Maori dug into the inert, unpromising gravel of the moon. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I walked back along the border of the lawn, traversed the gravel softly and tiptoed up the veranda steps. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z On this particular every-other-Saturday, Axel is already deep into imagining today’s Pokémon game when he hears the rumble of tires on gravel, all the way down the driveway. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z He rolled down the gravel bank and came to rest in the grass. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z The tall gray motor-buses were the only life of the square except for the pigeons and the man with a hose who sprinkled the gravelled square and watered the streets. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z That afternoon, the watch commander sent him to the winch cage with four barrels of fresh-crushed stone, to scatter gravel over the icy footpaths atop the Wall. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z For the briefest instant he looked up and down the gravel. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He kept remembering how good he had felt in the park, jogging over the gravel, the wind in his face, his muscles heating up. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z We were ten minutes in, me holding a two-by-four’s end while he sawed perfect thirty-inch segments on a pair of carpenter’s horses, when a car stopped in the gravel shoulder of the road. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z Then a wolf spider, startling in size and hairiness, streaked over the gravel, either chasing something smaller or being chased by something bigger, I couldn’t tell which. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Dad stopped and turned back, running toward the big silver truck bouncing up the gravel driveway. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z He started walking again, his footsteps scrunching on gravel, stones, and bone. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z Across the gorge and slightly upstream, perched on a gravel bench on the west side, was the government-built town the clerk had told Joe was Engineer City—home to technical and supervisory personnel. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z But Capricorn lay on his face with gravel clinging to his red suit, and never again would anyone tell him anything—about fire and smoke, about fear and death. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z And while the baton was suspended between the sky and the gravel, Beverly said, “I told you to tell me a secret.” Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z She said, “It’s like sweet gravel. It’s like a bunch of itsy-bitsy commuters running for a shuttle in my windpipe.” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z As the city’s streets cross St. Charles Avenue and enter this neighborhood, they gradually change from asphalt to gravel. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z She remained on the gravel for a minute or two, not quite frightened enough to turn back, nor confident enough to go on. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Dad walks offscreen, the gravel and leaves crunching under his footsteps, then brings Mom in, blindfolded. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z The gravel road was smoother, the stones smaller and the tree branches hung down around the path and nearly covered us. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a hazy, gorgeous summer twilight and the gravel parking lots were packed with trucks but none of the trucks was Mr. Hatch’s. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Away to their left, the bank sloped down again into clumps of alder, among which the stream could be heard chattering over gravel. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Something was rising from the gravel that covered the football field. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z I shared a ride with some tree planters to the head of Thomas Bay, where I was put ashore on a gravel beach. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Down below were the gardens, bare now but beautifully regular, the gravel paths, the trees, the stone wall by the lake and the lake in the sunlight with the mountains beyond. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z I buried everything I’d just read and covered it with dirt and sand and gravel, patted it all down with the underside of my fists so nobody could ever read his life again. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z Briar Hollow Lane is a little gravel road just before the bridge that marks the town limits. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z This image was followed by one of Beverly Tapinski and her mother fighting over the baton in a cloud of gravel dust. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z His feet made no sound at all, even when he was walking on gravel. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z She would have somersaulted home on bare gravel before she got back into Claire’s car. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Armpit lay on his back in the gravel parking lot with his eyes closed. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z I was about to do exactly that when the hard sound of gravel under moving tires cut through the quiet evening. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z An elephant-size tanker then wobbled down the narrow gravel road and parked by our home. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z He followed her down the steps, across the gravel driveway, to the back stoop of the elementary school. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z Looking round for Blackberry, he saw that he had left them and was up at the top of the pool, where the narrow beach tailed away into a gravel spit. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Walking at a steady pace, my boots scuffing the gravel, I count a hundred steps and start again. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z All the gravel was picked out of the cuts and grazes, bit by tiny bit, with cotton wool and a bowl of water, warm and clouded like an opal with Dettol. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z Later that afternoon, Otto and I were video chatting with Dad when I heard bicycle tires grind the gravel out front. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z I guess the iron tire on the spinning wheel was roughed up pretty badly and maybe had chips of broken rock and gravel stuck to it. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z The gravel path lay open and clear in the gray twilight and the little glow of yellow from the priory windows. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z I would draw the commander firing, Mother on her knees with her head in her hands, and our truck driving away, the tires spitting gravel onto Ona’s dead body. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Miss Honey had heard the sound of Matilda's feet racing over the gravel and now she straightened up and turned and stepped out of the rose-bed as the child came running up. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z When my father finally appeared in the distance, I hopped my way along the gravel toward him. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z But once people learned how to make sugar crystals, they began to use the name sharkara, which also meant “gravel.” Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z She couldn’t see the front, but she could see a light sweeping across the trees, and she heard a deep crunching sound: the sound of tires on gravel, she guessed. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z While the wheels of his oldVolvo wagon spit gravel down Smith Street, I wondered what would happen if Dad saw a great white while diving off Cape Ann. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z “I guess. I think he lives over off Eighth Street on the gravel road,” Neil said nonchalantly. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z Benny’s shuffling feet rolled against tiny bits of gravel, the sound echoing in her ears. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z The trees seethe and the house smolders, and standing in the gravel of the driveway, the daylight nearly finished, the locksmith has an unsettling thought: Someone might be coming for us. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z From there they had looked down on winter-bare flower beds and gravel paths. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z Huge yellow bulldozers shoved brush back from a rough road that had been traced out with gravel. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z Around the lake ran a gravel path, and around that was simply close-cut grass, in a huge arc. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z From backhoes, cranes, cement-mixing trucks, and men in hardhats came a roar of clanging metal, grinding gears, sliding gravel—and the occasional whistle at a passing woman. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Blackberry buried his nose in the gravel under the landward edge of the board and raised it, pushing. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “But Chris says with a good load of that gravel on the low place, we wouldn’t have a bit of trouble. The county keeps the roads clear for the school bus.” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z We stood against walls of houses and inspected the tiny gravel roads between houses before crossing to another house. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z We sit on the gravel road next to them but no words are exchanged. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He let me hit the ground hard, the loose gravel cutting open my legs and palms. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z A pair of white gates and a smooth gravel drive. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z I missed the normal crunch of gravel as I walked. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z The truck was swaying from one side of the road to the other, spinning up rocks and gravel that struck the underside of the truck. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z There was a gravel path looping round, with more benches here and there, and spherical garden lights. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z With one big thrash, Otto fought his way out of Patrice’s arms and was on the gravel path, running after the van. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z It was like balancing a sack of gravel on my head every day at school and not being allowed to steady it with my hand. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Travis’s father perspired in the gravel driveway, changing out the spark plugs on his pickup that had the name of the family business, Bohannon Lumber; stenciled on the side. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z He heard the tires spinning in the gravel, and then they caught onto the asphalt, and Colin heard the rumble of the eternally struggling engine grow distant. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z He sits propped up on a highback chair on a gravel hill that serves as a stage. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z We’d have to avoid the gravel in front, because of the noise our feet would make crunching on it, and instead skirt the grassy edges of the driveway. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z He moved back along the path, or rather along the grass beside the gravel, and came to the kitchen door again, fumbling at the handle and almost falling inside. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Worm started beat-boxing while doing a passable robot, his sneakers twisting holes in the gravel. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z We kept up our running menu all through work in the gravel pit that afternoon, and into the evening in the barracks while we lay next to each other on our shelf. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z The going was loose and he was heavy, and more than once the scree shifted under his feet and carried him down again in a scramble of dust and gravel. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The moon-rocky fourth garden was a spillage of concrete meringue and gravel. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z But the Deville sits in the gravel, ticking like a time bomb. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z My legs burn, but I force them to pedal, harder, until I pass Ollie and head back down the gravel road toward the ferry. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Engine groaning up the steep driveway, the van slows, stopping on gravel. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z At the front, and on both sides, there was the lawn, sloping downwards to a gravelled drive, and then into the lane, and without any tree or flower-bed to relieve the bald greenness. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z There were dark patches in the red gravel where the pavement ended, and she drove the car over Mr. Healy’s blood. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Outside Lawrence, Kansas, two dogs and a man walk along a gravel road surrounded by open fields. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Park waited for him to get up, but Richie just lay there, spitting curses and rubbing salt and gravel into his eyes. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z I hear the car’s engine start and the crunch of gravel as the wheels of his Mustang roll forward. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z Near it was another, sturdier, bridge built low to the water, carrying an enormous conveyor belt, which appeared to be transporting piles of rock and gravel from one side of the river to the other. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z When the car pulls into the driveway, Molly hears the crunch of gravel from the kitchen, at the opposite end of the house. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z He told her to go back into the courtyard and follow the gravel path around the perimeter; it disappeared through a high stone archway that opened into another, smaller courtyard. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I had just stepped out onto the gravel between the thick redwood railings when I saw Tessie and Father Mike sitting on the black iron patio furniture. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z On the edge of sleep a new sound jerked me awake, the sound of footsteps, I thought, moving stealthily on gravel. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The only sign of civilization is the track, which rests on a raised bed of gravel. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z We turned into the driveway and that old car bounced and squeaked over the holes, the crunch of tires on gravel echoing in the still evening air. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z She tripped and fell, grazing her knee on the gravel, which was wet with dew. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z They were thrown into a blender with gravel and ice. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Our job was to crush the stones into gravel. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Only the thwump-thwump-thwump of their bike tires rotating on frozen, unmoving gravel. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Some days I hauled lumber or stones; other times I pounded rocks into gravel or dug up cemetery markers that the Nazis then used to pave the roads. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z The water was very clear, with a bed of clean yellow gravel, and even in the middle was hardly four feet deep. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z His feet made a scrunching sound on the loose gravel. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z "I didn't know . . . please . . ." "Send Dr. Bledsoe to me," he said, turning away and swinging up the graveled path to the building. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z “Looks creepy,” Fina murmurs, staring down the narrow, gravel road with piles of dead leaves strewn across it. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z The same old frame houses, mostly white, but a few in blue, pink, or yellow; the same gravel driveways; and even the same rich man’s mansion in the distance. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z I fell back into the gravel and laughed, my voice carrying up through the trees and into the sky. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z Bits of grit and gravel inside his shoes and socks were grinding the tops of his toes raw. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z There was also a pile of sand and gravel, equally intact. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z A gravel drive that curved up through a field of dead grass. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Pushing his glasses back on the bridge of his nose, Kelvin says, “Nature’s amazing. It’s better than a park. Way better than my apartment building surrounded by gravel and weeds.” Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z The bus rumbled to a stop in a gravel parking lot just off the road. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Footsteps crunched on bits of gravel and glass, and another gun touched the back of my head. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z At once, he stepped off the gravel on to the lawn, and walked carefully around the edge, until he was within a few yards of him. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z They smacked the gravel from their clothing and walked in constrained silence to the entrance of the orderly room. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z The front yard was composed of gravel with bits of yellow grass, and the paint on the house was chipped. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z The road is uneven, not quite paved, a mixture of heavy gravel pressed into dirt. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z He learned that it was okay to feed his pigeon cereal, but that outside on its own it would probably eat some gravel. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z A little cloud of gravel dust rose up between the three of them. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z This flushing had undoubtedly released insecticides lodged in the accumulation of gravel, sand, and rubble and carried them into the lake and thence to the river, where chemical tests later established their presence. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z I follow her across an empty graveled lot. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z After supper, Cole washed the dishes at the water’s edge, gingerly rubbing gravel on the plates to clean them. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z We’ve left the gravel and are cruising along on pavement again when she looks up from the notebook she’s now writing in. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z He glances down, trying to hide his smile from me as he twists his toe in the gravel. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z It is impossible not to feel a shiver when our feet, leave the gravel path and sink into the dead grass in the field. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a gravel drive that curved away to the south. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z “Oh, Hazel,” said Blackberry, coming up to him round a puddle in the gravel. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Olmsted’s road contractor deployed a force of eight hundred men and one hundred teams of horses to begin regrading the roads and laying new gravel. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Sunday afternoon, I walked down our gravel and dirt road with Abby’s gift. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z I scrabbled at the ground, but it was all gravel and my fingers slid right through. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Tall dark trees lined the road, crowding the gravel. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The air smelled like kudzu, mud, cool gravel, and dead fish. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z I stand on the porch, listening to the hollow sounds of the evening, gravel under Stuart’s shifting feet, dogs moving in the early darkness. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Sunlight flashes from the hood ornaments and chrome fittings as the little procession grinds to a stop on the ringed gravel drive in front of the soaring lichen-streaked walls of the Chateau de Saint-Malo. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Tears would form in my eyes as I continued my stroll on the tiny gravel roads in Mattru Jong. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z “I was out at the pond Saturday night. When I was walking by the garden, I saw a car pull up on the gravel. Was that you?” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z “We shoveled gravel through sieves for seven full hours with a half-hour break for lunch.” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z A gravel path wound through the trees, and we crunched along it toward a clearing. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z He started along the road again, calling and keeping his eyes to the gravel shoulder. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z “You two should take the gravel road up the hill,” Esther suggested. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z He scooped back the gravel with his hand. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z The van was heard galloping on the gravel road, making its way to the center. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z We lugged it all across the road and up to the Wabash Railroad right-of-way and planted the card table in the gravel. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z He cared when she ran out across the gravel and spoke to him by the open police car door. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z She stopped and beat some more gravel with Ida Nee’s baton. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z I took the alleys and concentrated on the sound of my tires over the loose gravel, on the whir of the gear chain. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z Then he saw the gravel embedded in the tar and watched a spider running over the surface. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He ran for more than an hour, over grass and gravel, until the sun burned away the early mist and dried the dew. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Until midnight, when a car barreled up the hill and stopped in the gravel of the blue trail’s parking area. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z Ten minutes later, I pull into the gravel parking area for the blue trail. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z A piece of gravel dug into his back, but the more he tried to smooth it out the worse it got, so he did his best to ignore it. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z We roll down the lane at about one-tenth of a mile an hour, putting along so the gravel won’t knock at the paint job. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z I see now what I saw then, flashing by with the swift, deceptive ease of an accident: shower of gravel, windmilling arms, a hand that claws at a branch and misses. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Hours later, he felt a tautness in his stomach when he heard Master’s car: the crunch of gravel and the hum of the engine before it stopped in the garage. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Our trail takes us on a gravel road along Route 26 westward until we reach the Khmer Rouge-occupied village of Bat Deng. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z For a moment he thought about the park, the good feeling of gravel underfoot and the wind streaming past his face. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z On one of our first days pounding rocks, a warder commanded Kathy to take a wheelbarrow filled with gravel to the truck parked by the entrance. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She shook her head, brushed the gravel and leaves from her skirts, and continued down the slope toward the town. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z When bits of shell slip in, the sound is like gravel mixed with porcelain. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z She honked twice before they pulled out of the driveway and sped away in a shower of gravel. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z In the aquarium a toy wizard stands on the gravel, his wand raised, mid-spell. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z He walked his way down about eight feet and then dropped the rest of the way with just the smothered crunch of gravel to mark his arrival. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Cinders, coarse gravel, and granite boulders covered much of the ice, but every now and then the trail would cross a patch of bare glacier—a translucent, frozen medium that glistened like polished onyx. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z I charged down the street, my feet pounding divots into the gravel, the angry voices gradually fading behind me. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z “If it wasn’t for the ‘church every day and twice on Sundays’ thing...Annabelle says to Luke as they walk back down the gravel road where Dawn Celeste’s camper is. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z From the mouth of the gravel road emerged a long line of Israeli soldiers. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z He’d crutched over field and woods, through mud and gravel, up hills and down rock faces, over stone walls and under fences. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z I squeeze the brakes hard and struggle to control the bike on the gravel shoulder. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z Daisy's voice got us to our feet and out on to the blazing gravel drive. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z I kicked at dirt and yanked on leaves and hurled gravel into the woods. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z The gravel goes into the gizzard and grinds the food as it comes down, since the pigeon has no teeth in its mouth to chew with. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z I felt sharp frozen gravel slice through the thin sole of one of my shoes. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z In the park nearby, grass creepers edged out into the graveled paths. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z After Uncle’s third loss he stepped off the porch and stared moodily across the gravel yard. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Together the little group scrambled through scrub brush and gravel down to the boat. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z Just as I’m about to cross the street, I hear a crunching sound—someone walking down the little gravel path that leads from the graveyard to the gates. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z He tore over the gravel shoulder to the exact spot where his humans had left him. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Sand and gravel washed up from the creek. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z The father opened the car door and strode over gravel and patchy weeds to the edge of a wood. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z The three of them walked up to Ida Nee’s gravel driveway. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z His mouth encountered gravel, and he spat frantically, afraid that some of his teeth had been knocked out. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z With my handkerchief I wiped away the gravel, leaves, and pine needles. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Below them, down a gravel embankment, was a stark line of low barracks. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I listen to the gravel swish and crunch. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z He kicked at the ground, pelting Cole with gravel and dirt. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z Just to the left of the low building was a graveled driveway that appeared to lead outside the grounds. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z The other two cucos rounded a corner, skidding and kicking up gravel and snow as they joined the first. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z It is late afternoon and his long shadow sways back and forth on the gravel. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I turned, and in ten seconds liquid was splashing in the gravel at my feet. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z The rain really started coming down as the bus skidded out of the gravel parking lot. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Soon I would see him emerge from the curtain of evening shadows on the long gravel road that led to our home. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z The piles of gravel grew larger each day. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Rain drizzled around me, poking at the puddles in the gravel. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z He walked the road, not even glancing to the trees when he passed the plane, until he came to the long gravel driveway that led back to his trailer. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z I drive my mama’s Cadillac fast on the gravel road, headed home. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Before long, Gus’s car came bouncing and squeaking up the gravel driveway. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z On the tarmac, a lorry was repairing the bomb craters, filling them in with gravel. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z And then Harold is out the door and I hear the deep rumble of the car and then the sound of crunching gravel as he drives away. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z |
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