Example Sentences

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They had sacks over their shoulders to protect them from the rain, and they lifted the wet, shining lumps of coal into hamper-like baskets and staggered with them over the well-gravelled path.

From The Setons by Douglas, O.

Beyond these homes we followed a well-gravelled road leading directly west.

From The Fat of the Land The Story of an American Farm by Streeter, John Williams

The drive, well-gravelled and smoothly rolled, took them on, sauntering slowly, until it turned in a great sweep round a lawn, ending under a stone porch flung out from the front of the house.

From Captain Jim by Bruce, Mary Grant

The tents were arranged in long lines, with broad, well-gravelled roads at intervals between them, with a drained footpath on either side.

From Fred Markham in Russia The Boy Travellers in the Land of the Czar by Landells, R. T.