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Meanings of pebbly bottom in anglès

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Usage of pebbly bottom in anglès
1
Near us a boat grated softly on the pebbly bottom of a cove and swung in.
See America First
2
It is fully 70 feet wide, having a pebbly bottom; on each side grow large swamp-oaks.
The Explorers of Australia and their Life-work
3
So they came to a meadow brook running shallow over a pebbly bottom but some five yards wide.
The Seventh Noon
4
We passed many rivers and rivulets, which commonly ran with a clear shallow stream over a hard pebbly bottom.
A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland
5
The Tweed is a clear, rippling river, with a white, pebbly bottom, just like our New England mountain streams.
Sunny Memories Of Foreign Lands, Volume 1
6
Its waters are very clear, and it has a pebbly bottom and is shallow for some distance out from the shores.
The Innocents Abroad
7
The current was swift and strong, but with the pebbly bottom to give good footing 'twas possible to stem it slowly.
The Master of Appleby / A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part w...
8
We might at times fancy ourselves but a few feet from the pebbly bottom, each stone showing its bright clear outline.
The Roof of France; Or, the Causses of the Lozère
9
At the bottom was a green grassy sward with a pure bright stream running rapidly through it, over a clear, pebbly bottom.
A Voyage round the World / A book for boys
10
The river runs low with August drought, and frets upon the pebbly bottom with a soft, low murmur, as of joyousness gone by.
Dream Life: A Fable of the Seasons
11
Above the point of disappearance, the valley has all the aspect of the dry bed of a river, with its sloping banks and pebbly bottom.
Herzegovina; Or, Omer Pacha and the Christian Rebels
12
'How far now?' Nish asked as they were taking breakfast by a stream whose pebbly bottom was perfectly clear.
Tetrarch (Well of Echoes)
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