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There were but half-a-dozen trees, and a few square yards of grass that was never green, and a damp ungravelled path on which no one ever walked.

From He Knew He Was Right by Trollope, Anthony

I walked and walked, and the echoes of my footsteps on the ungravelled and mossy path suggested a double feeling.

From Masterpieces of Mystery Riddle Stories by French, Joseph Lewis

It is a stripe of black earth fifteen or twenty feet wide, the natural color of the soil, ungraded, ungravelled, and just now half a foot deep in mud from the melting February snows.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 26, July 1880. by Various

Razumov felt the ungravelled ground of the deeply shaded walk damp and as if slippery under his feet.

From Under Western Eyes by Conrad, Joseph