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What pleasure have we taken in planting and pulling up, digging and scattering, watering and draining, turfing and gravelling!

From Anna St. Ives by Holcroft, Thomas

As for gravelling, and walling, and digging, though I am not much delighted with them, yet something, indeed much, must be allowed to every man's taste.

From Dr. Johnson's Works: Life, Poems, and Tales, Volume 1 The Works of Samuel Johnson, Ll.D., in Nine Volumes by Johnson, Samuel

In Kew Gardens it was, where I worked gravelling the walks.

From Israel Potter by Melville, Herman

Anyone who liked to cart away a few loads for the purpose of gravelling his garden-path was at liberty to do so.

From The Squire's Daughter by Hocking, Silas K(itto)

If money can be saved by any plan, perhaps it is as well to notice it; but after having weighed the advantages and disadvantages of gravelling, I am of opinion, that bricks are preferable.

From The Infant System For Developing the Intellectual and Moral Powers of all Children, from One to Seven years of Age by Wilderspin, Samuel