Waterworn and hence rounded, up to about the size of a fist, the pebble, preferably flattish rather than spherical, was given a few violent but skillfully applied blows by a hammerstone. |
The origin of everything is the riverside, from where Brigitte Pazot gazed at the running water, at the waterworn stones, polished by the current, keeping in their veins the memory of mysterious signs and lines. |
This ware is characterized by a dull, reddish-pink body, usually dark-gray at the core, and by a gross waterworn gravel temper. |
The bed of the river is gravelly, or composed of waterworn stones, which diminish in size as you recede from the mountains. |
After scratching our way over a metre downwards through the shingle, we finally hit the waterworn rocks of the early Carboniferous. |
It is discovered in a limy stratum at the Brazils, I find, but rarely, and always waterworn. |