What pleasure have we taken in planting and pulling up, digging and scattering, watering and draining, turfing and Gravelling!
"Anna St. Ives"
Thomas Holcroft
"Oh, if you don't understand me," replied Sancho, "it is no wonder my words are taken for nonsense; but no matter; I understand myself, and I know I have not said anything very foolish in what I have said; only your worship, senor, is always Gravelling at everything I say, nay, everything I do."
"The History of Don Quixote, Vol. II., Part 23"
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
A casualty in York Bay is noticed in the Loyalist of Oct. 4, 1828. Mr. William Crone, contractor for Gravelling the streets of the town, was unfortunately drowned on Saturday last.
"Toronto of Old"
Henry Scadding