gravel-pit

Once used for industrial gravel-pit operations, the marshlands and swamps were created in the 1960s in a remote corner of Northern Virginia.

Dam failure drains Fairfax County lake, kills wildlife Derek Kravitz 2010

Especially the dead-end bit to the north that's actually a precipice into a gravel-pit. * rolls eyes*

Accomplished? melted_snowball 2007

Far in the shadows semi-opaque screens of blue haze made mysteries of the commonest gravel-pit, dingle, or recess.

Two on a Tower 2006

The minute Davis turned sour on his Los Angeles Coliseum deal, he had no problem negotiating with nearby Irwindale — a gravel-pit community of 1,100 residents — and walking away with $10 million the town couldn't afford to lose.

USATODAY.com - Root for Raiders, but don't pull for Davis 2003

I either follow some one, or ride at it with the full conviction that I may be going into a horse-pond or a gravel-pit.

An Autobiography 2004

Pheasants in the tall trees of the Pangbourne woods, larks on their grassy nests above the gravel-pit at Wansdon, swallows in the eaves at

To Let 2004

He gazed at his mother while she played, but he saw Fleur — Fleur in the moonlit orchard, Fleur in the sunlit gravel-pit, Fleur in that fancy dress, swaying, whispering, stooping, kissing his forehead.

To Let 2004

About thirty years ago there was much talk that geologists ought only to observe and not to theorise; and I well remember someone saying that at this rate a man might as well go into a gravel-pit and count the pebbles and describe the colours.

Darwin and His Doppelgänger Sulloway, Frank J. 2003

Packed-dirt sidewalks and gravel-pit debris made your eyes sting.

My Dark Places Ellroy, James, 1948- 1996

It is true that in some localities, as, for instance, in the gravel-pit of Mount Auburn, near

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864 Various