It seems hard to link this billion-dollar business to these bare tables, lined with small electronic scales and little piles of shiny stones sprinkled like mere pebbles on pieces of paper.

Hamed looks at Kelley as a mere pebble on his road to glory in America.

The stones beneath their feet were smaller, varying in size from a hen's egg to a mere pebble, and at fairly regular intervals there were funnel-shaped craters, each about twenty feet deep.

Fifty tons of rock could be held suspended above my head by a mere pebble.

The towering boulders at the place he had started his climb now looked like mere pebbles.

It turns out the apparent rocks in Mr. Van Sant's head are mere pebbles.

The boulders are held within the clay in an irregular manner, and they vary in size from mere pebbles up to masses many tons in weight.

His brightest diamonds were the merest pebbles, and felt to be so by himself, in comparison with the inestimable gems which lay hidden beyond his reach.

Thus it is that historians differ at the very outset, and mere pebbles make the stream of truth diverge into different channels even at the fountain head.

The lower half of the face was gone by then, and the staring eyes above seemed to have turned into mere glassy pebbles.