Pebbles
['peb(ə)lz] or ['pɛblz]
Unserious Contents or Definition
For a young woman to dream of a pebble-strewn walk, she will be vexed with many rivals and find that there are others with charms that attract besides her own. She who dreams of pebbles is selfish and should cultivate leniency towards others' faults.
Typed by Arthur
Examples
- In each bladder was a small quantity of dried peas, or little pebbles, as I was afterwards informed. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Did the Azilians play with these pebbles or tell a story with them, as imaginative children will do with bits of wood and stone nowadays? H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He got all those pebbles on the sea shore, abreast the ship, but professes to have gathered them from one of our party. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The use or significance of these Azilian pebbles is still a profound mystery. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- At the shore, where the ice has been partly forced out along the banks, it will be full of grass, leaves, pebbles and sticks, and presents a broken and frosted appearance. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Of course, it must have been the old metal and pebbles which my client had dragged from the mere. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- The spinster aunt trembled, till some pebbles which had accidentally found their way into the large watering-pot shook like an infant's rattle. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- As soon as Venn found his feet dragging over the pebbles of the shallower part below he secured his footing and waded towards the brink. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- These Azilian people have left behind them a multitude of pebbles, roughly daubed with markings of an unknown purport (see illus. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- We went on again, picking up shells and pebbles. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
Typed by Arthur