pebble-strewn

• “Prodded by excitement, she sidestepped across the mountain face until she could squat and carefully extend her heel into the pebble-strewn wash.”

  Simon & Schuster: Raven Speak

• “Dusty planes turned to precipitous gorges, and I mentally resigned myself to certain death a dozen times a day—like the time we were suddenly driving off-road up a mountain at an impossibly steep angle, or the time we were navigating a shallow, pebble-strewn riverbed guarded by Taliban tanks on each side.”

  Simon & Schuster: Peace Meals

• “He gave up and remained silent as they continued down the road, the cottonwoods and pebble-strewn creek bed gone, the terrain one of twisting arroyos, brush-covered hills, and flat expanses of hardpan where trophy animals as diverse as bison, elk, gazelles, and eland grazed.”

  Simon & Schuster: Rain Gods

• “When he reached the pebble-strewn beach, Bedivere laid Arthur down while he collected drift wood and lashed together a raft with tough beach grass as rope.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Night Dance

• “A close-up of a Hoodoo shows the fluvial river-deposited layers of the Ojo Alamo, with a pebble-strewn flood layer near the middle.”

  Steve Steve and the Fossil-Fossils of De-Na-Zin - The Panda's Thumb

• “The flats were gray and bleak in the evening light, pebble-strewn and rust-stained from the peaty waters of the river.”

  A Breath of Snow and Ashes

• “In Harlem, the Bronx, Gramercy Park, and along the water-fronts, in little parlors or on pebble-strewn, moon-flooded roofs, a thousand lovers were making this sound, crying little fragments of it into the air.”

  The Beautiful and Damned

• “Careful not to lose his footing on the pebble-strewn incline, he came down alongside it.”

  Simon & Schuster: A CALL TO DARKNESS

• “He strode rhythmically, easily, over the stony, pebble-strewn ground.”

  A Triumph of Souls

• “He proceeded along a narrow pebble-strewn trail that angled through clusters of massive boulders.”

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