river-gravel

If they cleaned out the cabinets and brought the stones, river-gravel, I suppose, out, they got Extee Three.

The Fuzzy Papers Piper, H. Beam 1962

More than once during the winter of 1908-09, it being a time of great distress, gravel-pit workers came to me with some of those worked flints -- the big paleoliths of the river-gravel -- which they had found and saved up, but now desired to sell, in order to raise money for pointing their pickaxes.

Change in the Village George Sturt 1895

Larry remained silent; the car ground into the heavy river-gravel on the sweep in front of the house, and ceased at the door that he had not seen since that day of wrath when he had cast his cousins behind him for ever.

Mount Music Martin Ross 1888

These river-gravel and brick-earth buried bones are rather earlier than those found in the peat and marl.

The Naturalist on the Thames 1882

It has naturally been asked, if Man co-existed with the extinct species of the caves, why were his remains and the works of his hands never embedded outside the caves in ancient river-gravel containing the same fossil fauna?

The Antiquity of Man Charles Lyell 1836

This band of till, with Grampian boulders and associated river-gravel, may be traced continuously for a distance of 34 miles, with a width of 3 1/2 miles, from near

The Antiquity of Man Charles Lyell 1836

The path being strewn with the yellowish sand which is used instead of river-gravel, the Countess, who was sitting in the upper room of this little summer-house, did not hear the Colonel's approach, for she was too much preoccupied with the success of her business to pay the smallest attention to the slight noise made by her husband.

Colonel Chabert Honor�� de Balzac 1824

Derwent, for though there are no limestone rocks for ten or fifteen miles above Derby, yet a great part of the river-gravel at Derby consists of limestone nodules, whose angles are quite worn off in their descent down the stream.

The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation Erasmus Darwin 1766

The path being strewn with the yellowish sand which is used instead of river-gravel, the Countess, who was sitting in the upper room of this little summer-house, did not hear the Colonel’s approach, for she was too much preoccupied with the success of her business to pay the smallest attention to the slight noise made by her husband.

Le Colonel Chabert 2007

The path being strewn with the yellowish sand which is used instead of river-gravel, the Countess, who was sitting in the upper room of this little summer-house, did not hear the Colonel’s approach, for she was too much preoccupied with the success of her business to pay the smallest attention to the slight noise made by her husband.

Le Colonel Chabert 2007