A few of the smaller boys and girls began picking up stones.

Elodin strolled along, picking up stones and tossing them into the trees.

Ms Ayliffe-Chung was picking up stones on a sugar cane plantation.

They also liked picking up stones and pebbles, which they hoarded under their beds.

I got up and went out to the soft shoulder and began picking up stones.

Everyone was this close to picking up stones out of the gravel and hurling them.

Jessie went about picking up stones from among the snow, when suddenly an exclamation escaped her.

He was picking up stones as he ran.

So some guys started picking up stones.

While he was picking up stones, the spider had reached Bombur, and soon he would have been dead.

He went around the lawn then, picking up stones and bricks and putting them into a cloth sack.

The job was tough, consisting of eight-hour days picking up stones from between rows of crops to stop them interfering with machinery.

Jamal stood at the edge of the water, letting the waves splash over his ankles, picking up stones and throwing them in.

Lemulquinier sprang to his feet and threatened the crowd with his cane; they all ran to a little distance, picking up stones and mud.

Ere fifty yards are covered the mob come pouring through the gate, yelling like demons and picking up stones as they hurry after us.

For the next two weeks the field presented the spectacle of a continuous "bee" of boys, picking up stones, ploughing, harrowing, and planting.