Definition of Pebble

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Pebble

A small roundish stone or bowlder; especially, a stone worn and rounded by the action of water; a pebblestone.

Transparent and colorless rock crystal; as, Brazilian pebble; -- so called by opticians.

To grain (leather) so as to produce a surface covered with small rounded prominences.

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Pebble Quotations

It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe.
Muhammad Ali

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.
Confucius

The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
Blaise Pascal

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.
Henry Ward Beecher

Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.
Victor Hugo

I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Isaac Newton

There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Somebody told me I should put a pebble in my mouth to cure my stuttering. Well, I tried it, and during a scene I swallowed the pebble. That was the end of that.
Jean Rostand

A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
Joseph Roux

Pebble Beach. It is tough and the lay out is amazing.
Natalie Gulbis

Pebble Translations

pebble in French is galet
pebble in German is Kieselstein
pebble in Latin is calculus
pebble in Spanish is guijo, guijarro
pebble in Swedish is sten, kiselsten

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