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  • Centuries of human activity have created clearings, hunting grounds, riverside meadows, road systems and trails, forest settlements, narrow-gauge railways, felling sites, and gravel-pits.

    Belovezhskaya Pushcha National Park, Belarus 2009

  • No, it was not a wood, only a wild brake, where there had once been gravel-pits, leaving mounds and hollows studded with brushwood and small trees.

    Adam Bede 2004

  • The gravel-pits were so called because there was no gravel there.

    Dr. Jolliffe's Boys Lewis Hough

  • He looked up to see that the scarf was hanging all right; it was within easy reach of both hands; he gave it a pull to try it, and being satisfied, got over into the field, and started at a jog-trot for the gravel-pits.

    Dr. Jolliffe's Boys Lewis Hough

  • It was your turning away from Wyndham at the gravel-pits that so rankled in my mind, and -- and your friendly meetings with him after.

    The Hero of Garside School

  • We often indeed have just a touch at that period, three days about, and then sleet and rain; but this was a regular good one, thermometer at nineteen Fahrenheit, no wind, no snow, and the gravel-pits bearing.

    Dr. Jolliffe's Boys Lewis Hough

  • The Westonians made the most they could of their opportunity, however, and whenever they had an hour to spare the gravel-pits swarmed with them.

    Dr. Jolliffe's Boys Lewis Hough

  • It was really quite sufficiently clear, that unless yet another boy had got out, and gone skating on the gravel-pits that night, taking Buller's knife with him and losing it, that he himself had been there as he said; and therefore that he was not in the coppice, two miles on the other side of Weston.

    Dr. Jolliffe's Boys Lewis Hough

  • When the snow ceased, the boys took brooms with them to the gravel-pits and cleared a space, which grew larger every time they went to skate on it, some of the hangers-on of the school helping forward the work, for what coppers and sixpences they could pick up.

    Dr. Jolliffe's Boys Lewis Hough

  • "Now, did anyone see you at the gravel-pits, or going there, or coming back?"

    Dr. Jolliffe's Boys Lewis Hough

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