The Flintstones' daughter

Usage examples of pebbles.

It was hard to be quiet as they crunched over pebbles, negotiated a field of boulders as big as sheep, and squeezed through clefts made by two boulders fallen one up against the next.

He taught a counting game to a handful of children hunkered down around the pebbles he tossed with his good hand out of a leather cup.

Now men and women began briskly to knap the pebbles, their hands working rapidly, their fingers exploring the stone.

The scars of old fires were visible across the floor of the hut and outside in the blackened circles of scuffed pebbles and sand.

There were a few stubby trees, and shrubs with bark like rock and leaves like needles, and cacti, small and hard as pebbles and equipped with long toxin-laden spines.

It was nearly choked: the rainstorm had filled it with pebbles and stones.

They were so tiny, Ultimate saw, they had to clamber over pebbles and irregularities in the dirt as if they were hills and valleys.

As soon as the sun touched the horizon, darkness striped across the flattened land, small ridges, dunes, and pebbles casting shadows tens of meters long.

I was doing my best not to fall flat on my face as I stepped across one of these lines of seaweed, when a little avalanche of pebbles began off to my left.

The sequence was longer than before: it knocked stone into stone until a few pebbles actually reached the sea at the end of the dance.

I stopped, balancing uneasily on the sleek dome of a stone, and looked to my left, where even now one of the pebbles was rolling to a halt.

I had a sudden, morbid desire to walk on the beach again, armed with this knowledge, kicking over the pebbles in the hope of turning up a bone or two.

Somebody must hear me, hold me, take me away and explain to me, before the skipping pebbles found their rhythm again.

Then it began again: wave after wave of pebbles and rocks rising off the beach and flinging themselves at their senseless targets.

Someone threw pine needles and a rain of dried herbs and tiny pebbles on the fire.