This Indian villager is addicted to eating bricks, gravel and mud, stomaching at least three kilos of his surroundings every day.
It ought to have gravel in it, not sand.
Back of the merchant's yard there was some low ground which was to be filled up for building lots; gravel and ashes were carted and tipped out there.
They headed for their cabin, zigzagging forty miles up and down the mountains in their Bronco, from pavement to gravel to a narrow one-lane road of brittle shale and powdery dirt that wound terrifyingly close to cliffs.
John saw them fly away out of the green trees into the wide world, and he longed to fly with them; but first he cut out a large wooden cross, to place on his father's grave; and when he brought it there in the evening, he found the grave decked out with gravel and flowers.
