| 单词 | soil |
| 例句 | At the mouth of the alley where his father was, on an orange crate in the sun, on a street full of grown men and women, he had soiled himself like a baby. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z A wooden crate stands between two upholstered chairs, soiled with dirt, stuffing coming out of split seams, and a threadbare gold sofa. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Valley was already getting up, brushing snow and soil off her cape and black jeans. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z His nose plowed up a furrow of soil. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Arsenic provides a classic case of the virtually permanent poisoning of the soil. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z He looked now for something to put the birthday candles in and settled on the soil of a potted ivy that normally sat on the windowsill over the sink. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Yakov had always changed into his boilersuit at work, claiming that he didn’t want to soil his street clothes. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z The soil of a large proportion of the land planted to tobacco has been subjected to “cumulative and well-nigh permanent poisoning,” according to Dr. Satterlee. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Whether released into soil or water or a man’s blood, these unrelated chemicals do not remain segregated; there are mysterious and unseen changes by which one alters the power of another for harm. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z In a separate tent other healthy subjects slept wrapped in blankets soiled by the black vomit of patients. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z As I pressed on through the boundless mist, my damp feet sucking soggy soil, the road went up an incline. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z “That evil soaks into the soil. Some say it steeps and gets stronger. Maybe this isn’t the place. Maybe Gloria and I should have kept going after Virginia.” The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z European- style agriculture would not only fall victim to mega-Ninos, it would permanently ruin the forest soils. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The rancher had the soil tested and found out that the chemicals used to prepare it had been too strong; they had killed the plants. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z Maman asks without turning around but instead ventures deeper into the forest, dodging massive roots poking out of the dark soil. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z She had a sudden urge to feel the ground beneath her, to curl her toes in that thick black soil. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z She was already sprinkled with some of the soil that I had dug up. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Last night I barely slept on the cold porch of the school, and before that I was on a soiled mattress in a fetid room with three other children. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z She listened to its sound and, bending down, drew a line in the soil in the direction it had gone. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Enough toxaphene remains in sandy soil ten years after its application to kill termites. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Most of them only see the ungiving soil from which a man must wrestle his subsistence and the barriers that shut him out from the world. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The air smells of wet soil and eucalyptus. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z Sometimes the menace is to the crop itself — a menace that remains as long as the insecticide contamination is in the soil. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z There is no way of identifying dirt, of course, but we all knew it must come from Uncles own little cup of soil that he had brought back after one of his trips to home. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z My ancestors hadn’t lived and died on this land, hadn’t bled into its soil. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z The fair taught men and women steeped only in the necessary to see that cities did not have to be dark, soiled, and unsafe bastions of the strictly pragmatic. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z We eased closer and took up a spot with our shoes in soft black soil and our backs against the bark of a tree. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z It’s got poor- looking soil and it’s too rocky to grow anything. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z There was not the least trace of soil. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z She pushed the soil over the seeds and patted it. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Rivers and lakes get clogged with the soil washed down by the rain, and the fish may die. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z We all slept out under the stars in the cattle camp—no bed, just a cowhide spread on bare soil. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘The land’s good for trees and wildlife,’ he told Dad, ‘and maybe a few wild plants that like poor soil— and that’s about all.’ On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The cold wind blew and the thin rain fell upon the soil and the figure stood looking at them with distant eyes. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z We hide amongst the banana trees that have sprung up all around his latrine, even while it gives us the creeps knowing all this lush growth is fertilized by such a disgusting man’s night soil. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Charlise says that farm-to-table means that the chicken is supposed to still be clucking when it’s on your plate and the vegetables taste like wet soil. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z By five-thirty the entire house sparkled, with scented candles that Twinkle had picked up in Hartford illuminating the items on the mantel, and slender stalks of burning incense planted into the soil of potted plants. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z She was a mound of soiled clothes, surrounded by knotted plastic bags, bundled newspapers, and a falling-apart suitcase, stuffed with who knows what. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z He picked up a handful of loose soil and rubbed it between his hands. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z “This is trickier. They’re dormant, waiting. Bury them in soil. Give them water and sunlight and they’ll grow. In a way, they’re immortal. And they were inside the apple all along.” The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z Even the poorest of the poor had them— soiled, ripped, brimless, covering their faces as they slept in the park, but boaters just the same. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z She’s worn the same dress all week, and her bodice is soiled. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z I got there, and the sun was scorching—the soil was too hot to walk on. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z There's plenty of condensation on the walls and domed roof, and the soil is certainly absorbing its fair share. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The soil was in the room, too: The elegant table was covered with dozens of little canvas sacks filled with seedlings, and Sarai wondered how plants figured into the Godslayer’s plans to conquer the citadel. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z We planted the flowers by the porch, turning over the soil and patting it around them, and watering. Sarah, Plain and Tall 1985-04-25T00:00:00Z Anthills had risen in the newly softened red soil in the yard, like miniature castles. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z They slashed with machetes at branches and vines to clear a path toward the river, sinking deeper and deeper into the swampy soil beneath them. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z I knew he would always have one hand in the soil and the other somewhere on me. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I closed my eyes and let his voice caress me, let myself imagine him as a child, before his shoulders grew square, chasing aku outside, over soil softened by new rains. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Potato soils have been found to contain up to 15 pounds of DDT per acre, corn soils up to 19. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Still, Tendai found it pleasant to get his hands into the good red soil. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z ‘I is hearing the little ants chittering to each other as they scuddle around in the soil.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Our district is the most fertile in all Malawi, often called the “breadbasket” of the country, and Banda understood what was required to work the soil. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z In addition to being too costly for many small farmers, the fertilizer and irrigation can, if used improperly, damage the soil. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z You need water and fertile soil and seeds. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z Cotton wasn’t afraid of poor soil, but we found that we could only keep up with so much cotton. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z At first Gogol is disappointed by the fact that he can’t play with her, that all she does is sleep and soil her diapers and cry. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The vast cyclic movements of chemical elements such as carbon and nitrogen through soil and air and living tissue could not proceed without these microplants. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z When Woundwort dropped through the roof of the Honeycomb, Bigwig was already lying under a thin covering of soil on the other side of the south wall, not far from Clover’s burrow. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Through brochures and pamphlets it conjured up a place with weather as wonderful as Southern California’s and soil as fertile as that of the finest acre of farmland in Kansas or Iowa. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The trailer plunged headlong into the soft soil and flipped over on to its balloon-roof, shuddering to an abrupt halt. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Most of the area has clayey soil that is hard to till and prone to floods. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I only watched Mama walk the rows that looked like my plaits and cover them with moist, black soil. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z In his underwear, Enrique stands for the first time on U.S. soil. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Not even the bacteria in the soil can survive a catastrophe like that. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z With small green cells called algae, these make up the microscopic plant life of the soil. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Everything remained the same, the dryness in the air, the dusty winds, the refugees tilling dried soil, but Kainene was not back. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z A stench came with them, the smell of unwashed bodies and soiled clothing, of nightsoil and urine. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z We already grow groundnuts in the damp soil and squash in the poor land. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The first rain had fallen, softening the soil. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Even after diversion, the water gushes through irrigation channels so quickly that it can’t evaporate and build up salts in the soil. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The threshold of the burrow was covered with a day-old fall of soft soil from the roof above. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z To feed Norte Chico’s burgeoning population, Shady discovered, the valley folk learned how to irrigate the soil. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Scraps of soiled toilet paper adhered to the commodes. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The organism remains viable in the soil for years and therefore be comes to all intents and purposes permanently established, increasing in effectiveness, and being continuously spread by natural agencies. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z I look at the hundreds of long pine needles, each perfectly aligned with the next, each end carefully pushed into the loose soil, forming a curved snake that flows in and out of the ground. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z The wildflowers can’t push up, and when they don’t grow, the soil erodes and is carried into the streams by the rain. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z As the chemical penetrated the soil the poisoned beetle grubs crawled out on the surface of the ground, where they remained for some time before they died, attractive to insect-eating birds. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Puli is with me because I tempted him, out of my desperation I lured him away from his soil to mine. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z One of the men grabbed him by his soiled lapels, and Lefty added, “And I don’t want to yet.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Then I sprinkled the Earth soil on top. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z This change occurs in living tissues and also in soil. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z For Uncle the soil was very special, being a bit of the Middle Kingdom and home, and more: part of the land which his fathers and their fathers had worked before him. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Archaeological excavations uncovered complex systems of drainage ditches dating back to 9,000 years ago and becoming extensive by 6,000 years ago, as well as terraces serving to retain soil moisture in drier areas. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He tried to push now, but his back legs could get no purchase in the pile of loose, yielding soil behind him. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “Go change your dress, dear. You don’t want to get your pretty dress soiled.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z She thought with dismay of the Richardsons, of the vast and gleaming Richardson house, of Pearl’s face when her mother dared set foot on this precious soil. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Then I can sprinkle the Earth soil on top. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The other ghosts followed Roger, and Will and Lyra fell exhausted on the dew-laden grass, every nerve in their bodies blessing the sweetness of the good soil, the night air, the stars. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Father put Uncle’s cup of soil there and slipped a dozen incense sticks into it and lit them. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z They have been found in fish in remote mountain lakes, in earthworms burrowing in soil, in the eggs of birds — and in man himself. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “Not in the ground: and the soil’s so light that we shall be able to scratch some shelter easily when we find the right place.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I change into the pants I brought and throw the soiled ones in the trash. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Sierra inhaled; the smell of fresh soil and recent rain surrounded her. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z Great Plains, and when farmers stemming ultimately from China emigrated to the Chatham Islands, the rain forests of Borneo, or the volcanic soils of Java or Hawaii. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z She found him in the sour soil at the bottoms of gratings. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The brown field stretched out, the remains of last year’s crop plowed into the soil. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The stream was dry, but a cool dampness still clung to the soil. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z People have speculated on how to make crop soil out of Martian dirt for decades. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z His eyes go to the trees, and to Byrd’s garden, young shoots just starting to pop through soil. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Old Dan walked off a few yards, stretched his body, and dragged his claws through the soft bottom soil. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Now Therese drops the soiled garments in soapy water with fingers that are long and tapered, like a lady’s, but red and rough, like a servant’s. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “Groundbreaking began August 1966. The tall towers needed a strong foundation. Workers had to dig deep through silt to find firm soil.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z Rain is falling and night is falling in Moca as we pass, the palm roofs sagging, the soil soggy with drowned seeds, the drenched jacarandas losing their creamy blossoms. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He placed the cup of soil before them and stuck some incense sticks into the soil and lit them, so that Monkey and the Buddha-to-be would be comfortable in the pleasant smoke. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Either there was soil deeper down, or this species of tree was a remarkable instance of a commensal or a parasite. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z The survivors were exhausted and haggard looking, their clothes frayed and soiled and smelling heavily of vinegar and camphor. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z The Nazi government had told them they were no longer welcome, that they were unworthy to live on German soil. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z “Brown dust engulfed the plane as we slid down the field that angled out to the right. Both the swift turn and the thick soil slowed the plane, and we came to a jerky stop.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Even when the baby napped, there were soiled diapers to scrub and leave to soak in a pail of the disinfectant that the girl had insisted Rasheed buy for her. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z U.S. policy toward the tribes shifted from containment to forced assimilation, and officials increasingly tried to turn the Osage into churchgoing, English-speaking, fully clothed tillers of the soil. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z She pulled back the soiled blanket and set the cat on the clean sheet underneath. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z In November of 1973 the government finally allowed Arthur Ashe to set foot on South African soil. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Or can we use a nonspecific fungicide without also killing the fungi that inhabit the roots of many trees in a beneficial association that aids the tree in extracting nutrients from the soil? Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Of course: Nearly all the soil of Jackson Park was competent to support floating foundations except the one portion destined to bear the fair’s biggest and heaviest building. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z We know too little of the threads that bind the soil organisms to each other and to their world, and to the world above. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Among them was Gallius, perfumed and wreathed with flowers; the floor was filthy, soiled with wine and covered with withered garlands and fish-bones. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z She fell to the ground again and dug her fingers into the winter-hard earth, scrabbling at the soil until her fingers began to bleed. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z There was not a patch of clean soil in sight, and the only plants growing anywhere were rank weeds and coarse grayish grass. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Maybe Venetians did their gardening inside, since they were surrounded by water instead of soil? The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Later he learned that the officer had sent a message to the KGB, confirming that Gordievsky was now on Soviet soil. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The inauguration would be the largest gathering ever of international leaders on South African soil. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It occurs to me that she may be a spy, a plant, set to trap me; such is the soil in which we grow. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z But he laughed and he seized her small, curling hands in his soiled ones and he laughed again and said, “Now you see that your lord is but a farmer and you a farmer’s wife!” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z It was the soil and the sky and the rain and the sun. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z It was caked in dirt, but when he pulled it out, the soil fell away and it glimmered white as pearl. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Exhuming Bobby’s corpse was impractical for many months: His grave was covered with snow, and it was difficult to dig through Iceland’s frozen soil until late spring. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Enrique shares one of five soiled, soggy mattresses with three other migrants. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z I wanted one now, only this time I was seventy-eight to be exact, and in no condition to dig up the soil. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z With a brisk cheery manner she scooped up a handful of soil, rubbing it into her paws to give some extra gripping power. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Villagers had planted new mangrove plants to replace the bushes and trees torn away by the cyclone, and new roots were beginning to push through the salty soil. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z Colonial writers knew that disease tilled the virgin soil of the Americas countless times in the sixteenth century. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The combination of good soil, successful agriculture, and evidence of past Indian inhabitation was what had brought the scientists to the farm. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Axel can smell the manure from her enriched soil as she takes it off. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Jahrling guessed that the flask had been wiped out by a common soil bacterium called pseudomonas. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The iron bed had been flaked and rusty, decked with soiled lace boudoir pillows. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z There may be minute quantities of liquid water in pores and capillaries in the soil. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Fiona dragged her hands along the wall, searching for crevices that might contain soil from which she could grow a vine or something else we could climb. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Also, this sort of farming annihilates the soil. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z She poked the soil with her knife until she found the dirty, thick root of the plant. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z We and our vermin all blossomed together out of the same humid soil in the Great Rift Valley, and so far no one is really winning. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z There was no guessing what mineral wealth hid in the soil, untapped because the old ferns, flowers, bushes, and trees had tired themselves to death. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Handkerchiefs flew out like soiled white doves, worn shoes, ladies' combs, a cowbell—a junk heap. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z Rivers have no memory; neither does the soil, or the air. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z Upon the creature’s back were wings made from soiled white tarpaulin or hospital curtains, melted onto the flesh and veined with throbbing arteries. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z As Pollard felt Seabiscuit’s hooves sink into the russet soil, he had reason to worry. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z We’d fled there many generations before from the highlands of southern Congo during a time of great war and sickness, and settled where the soil was reddish black and fertile as the days were long. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z The soil landed on my feet, then on my dress, then on my chest. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z The little flag was fastened to the end of that pipe and the pole was jabbed into the soft soil at the north rim of the crater. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z My grandmother does and is very very careful not to wrinkle or soil them. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally, these diseases tend to be restricted to humans; the microbes causing them tend not to live in the soil or in other animals. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Here thick black trunks crowded close together while twisted branches wove a dense canopy overhead and misshapen roots wrestled beneath the soil. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Disdainfully it wiped a fastidious paw across its soiled tongue and spat as if trying to rid itself of a horrible taste. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z But in the shade of the papaya trees the soil was dark brown, with the moist, friable feel that gardeners seek. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Clues, everywhere—cracked shells, forgotten feathers, deep prints left in soft soil. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The darkness was black, complete, and Ugwu imagined the spider’s hairy legs, its surprise to find not cold underground soil but warm human flesh. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The tree had grown great buttresses to support it in storms and in the watery soil. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z “Did you know that potatoes are fed night soil so they can grow big?” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z I wish this was Virginia again, my own green country, my own black soil. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Now it was winter, and the top of the soil was solid. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Jon brushed the loose soil away to reveal a rounded bundle perhaps two feet across. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z His skin was like moist soil that had just been turned. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Fumulani’s songs often described the struggles of the poor, his lyrics straight from the warm red Malawian soil. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z He liked to look at the action of worms in different types of soil. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z For the first time, I was on soil where American Marines had died fighting the Japanese. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Then farmers use artificial fertilizer, which at best is expensive, and at worst may inflict longterm damage on the soil. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The girls and women answered back as they scattered the corn seeds into the turned soil. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z I looked over my plot, squatted down, and fingered the soil awhile. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z They brought in soil for this project because the desert dirt wasn’t conducive to growing things. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z After all, this was top-quality grass, grown out of top- quality soil. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z So could radiations from certain rocks, or arsenic washed out of soil or rocks to contaminate food or water supplies. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z It was in the bunker, while playing with the damp soil that crawled with crickets and ants, that the child had told Ugwu his name. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z He had taken red soil and melted it into iron, but that was in the old days. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Now that the troop was close to the sleeping cliff, the animals spread out and applied themselves to digging in the soil. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Some people cut up their old plants with clippers and dug them back into the soil. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Now there were open fields among the lakes and forests, fields with the crumbly friable soil potatoes love. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Carrots absorb more insecticide than any other crop studied; if the chemical used happens to be lindane, carrots actually accumulate higher concentrations than are present in the soil. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z They are going to pick up two bags of potting soil for me at the nursery on the way back. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z The Princess was always brightest in spring, just after the conifers emerged from the snow, their deep green needles seeming almost black against the tawny browns of soil and bark. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z "All that time I spent in palaces, clad in silks and gold, not realizing that true riches come from the soil," he said. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z The soils beneath Berlin were sandy and unstable; engineers quickly determined that the entire length of the 1,800-foot tunnel had to be sheathed in steel, to prevent the structure from collapsing. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z There were only two known ways to resolve the soil problem: Build short and avoid the issue, or drive caissons down to bedrock. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Papa always said that our soil produced a good harvest of rocks and stones. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He scraped a patch of ground clear of wet leaves and twigs and put the little pile of papers on to the soil. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z One morning, she pointed to a patch of soil behind the toolshed. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Legumes used the sun’s energy to fix nitrogen in the soil. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Next for my first steps on American soil, but when the time came, I forgot all about them. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z This city is a foreigner’s premise of efficiency planted on this soil, and it’s a very bad idea. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z And I lay there, hazily watching a dark red spot of my own blood shaping itself into a butterfly, glistening and soaking into the soiled gray world of the canvas. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z When it finally died, I removed the roots from the soil, washed them, and buried them in a corner of the garden. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The windows are shuttered tight and the square of front yard is littered with broken pottery and soiled flags. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z As we have seen, soil and the living things in and upon it exist in a relation of interdependence and mutual benefit. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z On his head was a soiled brown Stetson hat, and he wore high-heeled boots and spurs to prove he was not a laboring man. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Their clotheslines are strung with underpants, nighties, socks, a display of soiled intimacy, which they have washed and rinsed, plunging their hands into the gray curdled water. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Not a tree grew anywhere to break the monotony of the gold-green plain, for the soils of the tundra are permanently frozen. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z In addition to its benefits to the soil, slash-and-char releases much less carbon into the air than slash-and-burn, which has large potential implications for climate change. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I throw the jawbreaker into the fake soil of a fake tropical plant by the window and turn my blubbery self to Sausun. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z For soil is in part a creation of life, born of a marvelous interaction of life and nonlife long eons ago. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z One of the most important things to remember about insecticides in soil is their long persistence, measured not in months but in years. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z In the United States the arsenic-drenched soils of tobacco plantations, of many orchards in the Northwest, and of blueberry lands in the East may easily lead to pollution of water supplies. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z It had been eleven years since she died and sometimes Sefia couldn’t remember her face, but she remembered the texture of the needle-fine lines on her mother’s hands, the smell of the soil. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z His palms, as pink as his gums, were calloused, and his fingertips were stained with age and soil. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Not with the heat, not with the wet soil, and definitely not with the mosquitoes. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z She had scooped up a handful of loose soil. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z One very useful function of natural plant communities — now pretty generally stigmatized as “weeds” — is to serve as an indicator of the condition of the soil. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z He bought a rig and drove around, meeting the earlier comers, talking of soil and water, climate and crops, prices and facilities. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Gaia the Earth Mother rose from the ground - a swirling figure of soil, leaves and stones. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z If Emma struck a single note, high or low, the worms retreated into the soil. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The road to the plantation had been cut into the Amazon’s famously poor soil—it was the blaring orange- red of cheap makeup, almost surreally bright against the great dark green leaves of the forest. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Dallas pulled a long red worm from the soil. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z We ran tests to determine whether the soil had enough nutrients and didn’t contain any toxic elements like lead or mercury. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z His fingernails are rimmed with grime made up of axle grease and planting soil and animal blood and who knows what else, ground in so deep it can’t be washed off. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z It was the soil, so fresh, so robust, so much better quality than Chinese soil; Chinese soil having been prevailed upon for too many thousands of years. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z After the burning the soil is richer, and new things can grow. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z At this rate it'll take me weeks to get all the soil in. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Who had ever heard of land with no soil? Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z My first impulse is to cover my nose to block out the stench of soiled linen, putrefying flesh, and vomit, all ripening in the heat of the warehouse. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z A bundle of soiled blankets is bunched in the corner, the remains of the food scattered next to it. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z Then I patted the soil as smooth as could be. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z She turned away and went to the sink, plunging her hands into the dishpan and trying to scrub off some of the soil that had lodged beneath her nails. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z There was not enough soil for them to grow to any height and when they reached perhaps twenty feet they fell and dried, forming a criss-cross pattern of trunks, very convenient to sit on. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z She thought of the orchids spreading across the plains below, choking the life out of other plants, out of the soil itself, selfish and unstoppable. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Stones and soil were tamped around the wheels, wedging them still. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z For a moment it looked like nothing would happen, then the roots loosed themselves from the soil, curling and withering. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Soon they came into a very hilly area of the prairies, with tall grass and sandy soil. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z In daylight they watch my crooked hands while I scratch the soil in my little damp garden. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He doubted whether the republican principles planted by the founding generation would grow in foreign soil. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The first color to return was the simmering brown-red of the soil in her family’s plot. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z I watched as those eggs exploded, thick globs of yolk soaking into the soil. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The plant, known to botanists as Hedysarum alpinum, grows in gravelly soil throughout the region. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z She had flecks of soil all over her arms, her face, and her white dress, but she didn’t seem to care. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z It reeked, almost like soil, and Celaena’s nose crinkled as she turned the pages. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z He laid his hoe down gently, and savored one last moment of feeling warm soil beneath his bare feet. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z Most awkward for washing and things, all water and soiled pans have to be handed up and down the ladders. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z There’s plenty of cover for rabbits—standing corn, hedges and banks—but no real woodland: just great, open fields of light soil with big white flintstones. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z There had been good rains there, and the soil was rich and nourishing. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z I had worked the soil, which is its flesh, and harvested the plants and climbed the trees, which are its hairs. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z It glanced off his shoulder, and then she was on the ground, her free hand scrabbling in the slightly damp earth, her cheek scraping against the soil. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Some of them had roots, clawing their way up out of the soil, thick and twisted and shiny. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z The bus rolls onto Lansing soil, and I don’t feel the tug I was expecting. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z I pulled Otto’s arms from around my neck, he making quiet complaints, and set him on the soil floor. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z There were two bucks directly in his path, but they fell back as he plowed through the loose soil. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Early the next morning, after they had buried their garbage in the soft soil and washed briefly in the creek, they set off. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z The different colors spoke of the various soils and minerals that the tree’s roots encountered, some harsh and stunting, some rich and nourishing. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z She stank so badly that she stripped right there, dropping her soiled clothing on the riverbank as she dove into the deep black waters. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Hugo joined the merchant marines at sixteen and on his first trip went to Dakar, where the markets were filled with monstrous fruits grown in soils of uncommon minerals. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z I prepped the tables and bunks for holding the weight of soil, and even put the dirt in place. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Competition for grazing land among tribes of herdsmen or for arable soil among farming communities? History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z And this is by no means all they do: their burrows aerate the soil, keep it well drained, and aid the penetration of plant roots. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z No longer disguised as a domesticated donkey, the nagual, dressed in a soiled black robe, was standing over a huge bubbling cauldron. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z The Ngoni people marched north for many months and finally stopped in Chewa territory, where the soil was moist and fertile. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z It was not easy to get started, and when the soil began to fall, it was light and powdery and did little to block the holes. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The girl, a scrawny thing in soiled leathers, was dodging and managing to get her stick in the way of most of the boy's blows, but not all. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z When she wasn’t disintegrating, she lashed out with shrapnel blasts of stone and soil that Jason barely deflected. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z That's why I have a small amount of Earth soil and a bunch of plant seeds with me. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z He lazily plucked another living bracelet from the soil, held it between thumb and forefinger, and let his hand drop open on my chest. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z He took out the bottle of whiskey while they removed their soiled, wrinkled jackets. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps the most essential organisms in the soil are the smallest — the invisible hosts of bacteria and of threadlike fungi. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Carefully she took it up, bringing with it some leaves and soil as Mr. Chris had told her to. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z I closed my eyes and craned my head to the sky, finding solace in the honeyed scent of sunflowers and warm soil. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Presumably the weed is taking something from the soil; perhaps it is also contributing something to it. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z He had been clearing the irrigation channels and strengthening the dams, the fork he carried was caked with soil and water. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z A leper with soiled bandages begged at the car window. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Much depends on the type of soil, the crop, and the nature and concentration of the insecticide. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Mom and Dad could tell what kind of minerals and ore were in the ground from the color of the rock and soil, and they taught us what to look for. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Here the roots of the trees seemed to claw at the sandy soil like the brown knuckles of clenched fists. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z A laughing teenage boy in a soiled tank top handed Otto a cigarette and, when he didn’t take it, pressed a beer into his hands. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z And some four hundred young men, born into an America that is bursting with opportunity and promise, have ended their lives on Vietnam’s steaming soil. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Before she had finished smoothing the soil and laying out a border of little stones, she had worked out her plan. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z They were all the same size, and pushed at regular intervals into the soil. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z My father removes his hat and holds it in his thick, farmer’s hands, the palms caked with grime, soil caught beneath the fingernails. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z One of my tasks for the mission was to see how plants grow here, in various combinations of Earth and Mars soil and atmosphere. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The changing room stinks of armpits and soil. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z “There are rewards in caring for sheep, and there are rewards for tilling the soil, but the greatest calling is to be a priest,” he said. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z When you are part of a place, growing that moment in its soil, there’s never a need to say you’re from there. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z And in time that would finally drop as well, returning to the soil. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Brazil is the land that imported more Africans than any other to work on sugar plantations, and in Brazil the soil is still perfect for sugar. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z “I can feel several voices, but I can’t make out the words,” said Arm with his long fingers splayed out on the soil. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Even though the plant was inches from the tap, the soil was so dry that he had to water it first before the candles would stand straight. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z For days the family either walked to the fields or used the night soil buckets. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘Mother Gaia ..His voice was impossibly deep, shaking the ruins, making the metal scaffold resonate under Piper’s feet. ‘In ancient times, blood mixed with your soil to create life. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z The emphasis in Canada is on small mammals, which are amazingly effective in the control of certain insects, especially those that live within the spongy soil of the forest floor. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z He’s shirtless again, streaked with sweat and black soil, carrying two buckets of dirt. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z When the soil ran out, when rocks was the biggest harvest, we ate what I shot. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Every Sunday my grandfather used to bring me an avocado pear hidden at the bottom of his briefcase under six soiled shirts and the Sunday comics. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z I investigate the newly tilled soil downstairs in the future garden. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z As soon as her feet hit soil, she was off and running. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z The tents and the hammocks look soiled, but they feel more like a home to me than the biggest hut here. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I opened my mouth to breathe and choked on the soil. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Her hair was untidy and her sari soiled. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z It's been a week, and the former Martian soil is rich and lovely. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The Beni is of increasing interest to ranchers and soybean growers, who covet its open land and relatively good soil. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Here, half buried in the black soil, are Loki and his monstrous children. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z The huge femoral bones that Darwin had extracted from the soil belonged to a vast, elephant-size llama; its smaller current version was unique to South America. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “We’ll shake another time. I wouldn’t soil your hand with these forge hooks.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z That it had been written in the soil of Romania long before I was born. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z He brought his usual old friends, a traveling photographer, and the gown and ermine cape soiled with blood that Fernanda had worn during the carnival. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z As a result, much of the red Amazonian soil is weathered, harshly acid, and almost bereft of essential nutrients—one reason ecologists refer to the tropical forest as a “wet desert.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “Can you buy these as pets, Hagrid?” he asked excitedly as his niffler dived back into the soil, splattering his robes. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z The fungus gives the plant simple elements and minerals it has taken from the soil. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Carefully they replaced the soil and covered the entire grave with uprooted grass. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z It was a pale morning: in the East, behind long clouds like lines of soiled wool stained red at the edges, lay glimmering deeps of yellow. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z It felt like another cyclone had hit the island, turning the soil to water underneath his feet. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z His face was dusty, his clothes soiled, and dried blood spotted his arms. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z ‘The color of my skin is beautiful,” he said, “like the black soil of Mother Africa.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The Army does not exactly have a mandate to fight viruses on American soil. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z This was the soil on which my great-grandfather had married his third wife a year before dying in the cholera epidemic that hit Kabul in 1915. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “I—I—” Choking on the stench of smoke and soiled sawdust, I tried to break away from Frankie. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z So I put a big sack of potting soil in the seat and try again. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z I looked down and saw the damp dirt road leaving the farm, hard-packed in the middle of all of that moist dark soil. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z His shirt was dirty and the stolen clothes were wrinkled and soiled from having been slept in for a week. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “What victory, comrade? Have we not drive the enemy off our soil—the sacred soil of Animal Farm?” Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Workers enriched the soil with one thousand carloads of manure shipped from the Union Stock Yards and another two thousand collected from the horses working in Jackson Park. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z His feet left prints in the soft soil and the creepers shivered throughout their lengths when he bumped them. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z According to her, if a plant was in decent soil and had sun and enough water, a bud would at some point show up. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Death was the only thing that made any sense as she hunched underground, plucked some soil, rubbed it between her fingers, and waited for the bunker to explode. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z One day Mitt came home with his clothes soiled and said that they had pushed him down to the ground and put dirt in his mouth. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z There between the graves, a beautiful red fem had sprung up from the rich mountain soil. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a little bit of dark soil in it. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z What soil is rich enough for planting and the patches of land that need a year of rest. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z She tucked my little Korean Fire plant into the soil, and so I told her about its name and its story and about how it blooms, always, even in the winter. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Cicadas hummed insistently in the trees, and the soil was dry as dust. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z The new race laws forbid colored men and women from setting foot on North Carolina soil. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The soil was made of gold, the rivers made of crystals. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z The soil was softer, but there was no other sign that anything had happened. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z The loosely packed soil on the Fowl estate was very well aerated, and a lot of that air had entered Mulch’s tubes along with the soil and minerals. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z The plow cast up the clean, damp smell of new turned soil. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z In the future it may become necessary to analyze soils for insecticides before planting certain food crops. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Next to the letters is a picture of clouds, rain, sun, plants, roots, and soil, with red arrows pointing from one thing to another, like symbols on a treasure map. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Immense blocks of black basalt, each as large as a crofter's cottage, lay scattered and tumbled like a child's wooden blocks, half-sunk in the soft boggy soil. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z There was good soil and the wheat was good, but I missed the rolling hills of Texas. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Unless a wheat- or cornfield is left fallow every few years, the soil becomes exhausted. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z When she asked him in halting English about the acidity of soil and how it affected the corn crop, Charlie said, “Knows her dirt.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z The soil is rocky, the terrain steep, and the weather so bad that people take actual pride in it. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z He barked a wet cough and spat in a soiled handkerchief. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z His letter set down the basic rights that in his view belonged to everyone on American soil—the first formal call for liberty in the colonies. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Their digging to extract the tuber loosened and aerated the soil and fostered regrowth. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Instead of unyielding steel, my fingers sank into loose, warm soil. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z She nodded as the gust whipped loose soil and leaves all around us. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z And he told the Pilgrims to fertilize the soil by burying fish alongside the maize seeds, a traditional native technique for producing a bountiful harvest. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I could see his nostrils taking in the smell of the soil. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Water and muck and Spackle skin worked fine together, didn’t poison nothing, just made the swamp richer, like men do to soil. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z I felt soiled, as if his gaze had branded my naked chest. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z There, in soil leading to the driveway, are the footprints: waffle, line lines, the point of a boot. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z And he went away and in a little while he came back, bringing tied in a cotton kerchief a double handful of small red beans, mouldy with the soil. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z But it turns out that plowing the land over and over damages the soil almost as much as chemical weed killers do. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z As John McPhee notes, it may be buried under glacially deposited soil, like the Manson crater in Iowa, or under the Great Lakes. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Smelling a little of turpentine, she was still in the soiled green print dress she’d worn all yesterday and all last night and all this morning. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Jory's armor was blue-grey plate without device or ornament, and a thin grey cloak hung from his shoulders like a soiled rag. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z In a broad reach of savanna, the Beni’s original inhabitants built raised fields—artificial platforms of soil that lift crops above the floodwaters. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Raindrops slid down the leaves, the air smelled of wet soil, and he and Harrison were talking about his upcoming trip with Mr. Richard. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z And as she joined in carrying out the few salvageable chairs, it was the hole she thought about: how hot carnivorous metal could draw such pretty ringlets in the soil. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z He was a tiny man, not more than five feet tall, wearing a rather soiled linen suit, black shoes, and a black felt hat with the brim turned up all around. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z I concentrated on the rows, and watched the spreader and the gray fertilizer sifting down from the hopper onto the soil. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z His shoes sank into the soil, which had become black and soupy in an instant, the water level rising. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Rain was falling outside the small, high windows, tiptoeing on the black branches and cold soil when we returned to the refectory. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z He might not like the idea that I had a root in soil we didn’t share, but he was never mean. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z Then he examined the glove to see if any dust had soiled it; none had. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z She managed to get the soiled pants down and flung them at me. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z He let the bow slide up on the soil, and the canoe came to rest. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z These thin, threadlike cells form a web buried in the soil. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z And then, being in a heady, sharing sort of mood, I explain the wheelchair, the potting soil, and Rosa, like it’s all perfectly normal. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z “What is the point in providing food and shelter for an animal that just soils your furniture, makes your home smell bad, and ultimately dies?” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z It turned out that the Soviet team would be playing for the first time on United States soil. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z A sort of mystical fairy tale, it romanticized and celebrated the simple life of German farmers living harmoniously with nature on their German soil. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z In a mysterious dance of sunlight and sugar, water and wind and soil, we build invisible bridges to connect with the world. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Everyone knew the girls had spent hour after hour tracing, cutting, and stitching the costly velvet, and that Gerhardt’s Department Store would be quick to reject any that were soiled. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Hazel dug once more, his forepaws throwing up the soft, wet soil and slipping against the hard sides of the peg. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z A deep trench has been gouged into the soil immediately in front of the double rows of barbed wire. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z Then we see if any interesting new gases come out of the soil. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z She cut off an inch and hurried back inside, brushing the soil off of it and the knife blade. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z In fact, Sparrow, sinking her hand into the soil and concentrating for a moment, grew some spikes of purple liriope tall enough to screen them from sight. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z He crouches down and creeps up toward the window, soil rolling into his loafers, hoping he guessed their destination right, until he finds the pane he’s looking for. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Its residues are long persistent in soil, on foodstuffs, or on surfaces to which it may be applied. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z A yellow fairy produced a crystal sword from the soil of a flowerbed. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z And so will I. What goes in the soil next should be more permanent. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z As one planter said, it made no sense to believe that “the Negro would become a grateful and cheerful free laborer on the soil which had been watered by his tears in slavery.” Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Agriculture, Meggers pointed out, depends on extracting the wealth of the soil. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z As we rode home I looked forward to shedding my day like soiled clothing. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The dirt is only viable soil because of the bacteria growing in it. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Nazi spies had been captured on American soil in 1938, and people were worried that more spies were lurking undercover now that World War II had started in Europe. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z He tore the joint apart and buried two large hunks in the sandy soil at the river’s edge, and then marked the caches. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z “Men,” he said, “it is exactly one hundred and thirty- eight years since the Marines fought in Tripoli and first raised an American flag over foreign soil.” Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Her host replaced her soiled dress with one his daughter had left behind. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The mash lay in his mouth, or dripped forth, cutting a channel in the soil of his chin. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z For as soon as the weather allows, Farmer Fitzgibbon’s tractor comes rumbling through, pulling the sharp-bladed plow through the soil, turning over every foot of it. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z “I can’t believe these plants, either,” she said, jabbing a forefinger into the soil. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Some are caused by microbes capable of maintaining themselves in animals or in the soil, with the result that the disease doesn’t die out but remains constantly available to infect people. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I sat up and drew away from him, suddenly conscious of my dirty hair, soiled hands, and torn clothing. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z A small farmer before the war, and twice a widower, Duke was always on the edge of ruin, scratching a living from the lean soil of the northern Piedmont. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Both of those atoll types present problems to human settlers, because they consist entirely of limestone without other stones, have only very thin soil, and lack permanent fresh water. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In slow motion, my skin decomposes until there is nothing left and it mixes with the dirt, becoming Khmer Rouge top- soil. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z If we wish on Earth to examine samples of Martian soil for microbes, we must, of course, not sterilize the samples beforehand. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The winds encased the goddess, keeping her solid, but it was all Jason could do to contain her blasts of sand and soil. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z They carry armfuls of mossy soil back to Haye, whose moans are dying now. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Egypt’s dry, sandy soil preserves papyrus scrolls very well—copious quantities of documents have survived. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z Not long before, Grupo Beta found a bed of bricks inside, covered with emerald green leaves from a plant that looked like a bird-of-paradise—and two soiled pairs of panties crumpled on the dirt floor. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Not bad, but strongly, of working in soil. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z My knuckles were bloodied, my fingernails black with soil. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Violence was the very soil from which sugar sprang. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z It was common in the early morning, when the water sprinklers misted the cool air next to the soil. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Still, he rose every morning and set off on his mission, often dressed in the same tattered and soiled clothes he had worn the day before. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z "All it does is get you soiled and dusty and sore." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Wash drove his shovel into the flower bed and turned the soil. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Maps, I thought, to water or good soil or good hunting? This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z With his pale finger, Baruch traced a map in the bare soil beside the fire. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Erickson explained to me that the pieces of ceramic were probably intended to help build up and aerate the muddy soil for settlement and agriculture. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z First, when Martian soil was mixed with a sterile organic soup from Earth, something in the soil chemically broke down the soup—almost as if there were respiring microbes metabolizing a food package from Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I've been gathering soil and rock samples from each place I camp. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z As soon as we were done, Mouse crept out of the grasses and attacked a small hole in the soil, dragging out a strand of sea lettuce so she could properly subdue it. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z In a later work, he announced that the number of worms to be found in an average acre of English country soil was 53,767. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z A ceramic pot lay in pieces around a pile of soil and the remnants of a plant. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z On the ground were bears and mountain lions and rattlesnakes; in the treetops, an astonishing array of squirrels; and beneath the soil, one thick seam after another of coal. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z “It’s good to have roots. Gives the soil something to hold on to, and it’s nice to watch something you’ve planted grow.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z On a low hill the gravestones tilt crazily, as if trying to wrench loose from the soil. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Of my muddy shoes standing firmly upon the soil of this land. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z With that in mind, I'm taking soil and rock samples every time I do an EVA. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Alice planted squash seeds a year ago, and they grew as big as pumpkins—some plants like our poor soil. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Our soil wasn't so good, though: dusty on top with hard clay underneath that. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In one part of Russia, though, the nobles who owned the land were interested in trying out new tools, new equipment, and new ideas about how to improve the soil. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z On the Earth before life, there may already have been chemical processes resembling respiration and photosyn thesis cycling in the soil, perhaps to be incorporated by life once it arose. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Explosive increases in some kinds of soil organisms have occurred when others have been reduced by insecticides, disturbing the relation of predator to prey. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z ‘LIES/’ Gaia crumbled into a tornado of soil and grass, but her essence seemed to churn more sluggishly. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Since Gitmo is leased land from Cuba, the prisoners are not on U.S. soil, so they are not covered by the U.S. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z He was ranting incoherently and had soiled himself. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z They macerate and digest the leaves, and aid in mixing the decomposed matter with the surface soil. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z As he dug down into the coal-black earth he found it even more perfect, for there were great rocks under the soil. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Groves demanded that those barrels be stopped before reaching German soil. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Animals ate the plants and the farmer recycled the nitrogen by spreading the animals’ manure on the soil. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z On a local level, terra preta is valuable enough for locals to dig it up and sell as potting soil, an activity that, alas, has already destroyed countless artifacts. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Without soil, land plants as we know them could not grow, and without plants no animals could survive. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z But wait: Four or five elephants had been through when the soil was soft enough to take deep imprints. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Kaede imagined tiny, gnarled fingers reaching up through the soil like a strange new plant. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z The bank on each side of the oak tree was bare and consisted of a light, gravelly soil. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I felt myself falling apart—that by morning I might be just bones melting into the moldy soil of the sisters’ vegetable garden. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z But for animals it is a hard task, as they must scrape at the soil with their feet and it is slow, slow work for them. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z The blast lifted him forward several feet and drove him face-first into the soil. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z You see, those poor dead creatures returned to the earth, their bodies nourished the soil, and they helped create the most dazzling spring bloom the island had ever known. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z They had to be placated and their favor sought in order to ensure the fertility of the soil and the rotation of the seasons. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “Ow! Great God almighty, Orleanna. How did this curse come to me, when it’s God’s own will to cultivate the soil!” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The Aesir were warlike gods of battle and conquest; the Vanir were softer, brother and sister gods and goddesses who made the soils fertile and the plants grow, but none the less powerful for that. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z Our labour tills the soil, our dung fertilises it, and yet there is not one of us that owns more than his bare skin. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z I couldn’t leave him either, and there was nothing to do but wait, so I gently brushed loose soil from his arms and face and thinning white hair. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z And now, a quarter of a century later, that choice had landed me right back on this soil. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I feel all mixed up, the way soil must feel after the oxen come through, plowing it, turning it inside out, getting it ready for planting. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The only course open to a manufacturer determined to exclude BHC residues is to reject all produce treated with the chemical or grown on soils contaminated with it. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z But he lifted his head to look at them and he saw that they were indeed men from the town, dressed in long robes of soiled silk. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Daddy grabs the soiled mail and shoos me away. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z The spores of the disease occur in soil. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “But instead of destroying the soil, they improved it, and that is something we don't know how to do today” in tropical soils. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “Please leave your droppings around the Nest! The more droppings, the richer the soil, the healthier the garden.” The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z They could both hear him scrabbling in the fallen soil. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z In my neighborhood alone, hundreds upon hundreds of us are weaving our roots into the soil like knitters on a mission. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Early farmers would have discovered by trial and error that they could obtain higher yields by tilling and watering the soil and then sowing seeds. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z "You put seeds in soil and water them. Sounds exceedingly easy." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z “Once the undergrowth was gone, replaced by the orchids, there was nothing to hold the good soil down. It blew away, and all that’s left is sand.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z And then realizes he’s soiled the magic carpet of the greatest empire in the world and says, “Oh!” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Upon my return to U.S. soil, I was accepted in the White House Fellow program. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z In the autumn the leaves fall to the ground, accumulate in sodden layers, and begin the slow process of becoming one with the soil. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z I found an unoccupied bunk on the upper level, shook as many fleas and lice as possible from the soiled mattress, and spread out my sleeping bag. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z It's even got a pleasant name: "night soil." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Underneath my feet, a grit of black soil spread across the floorboards, creeping from the darkness under the empty cots. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Many more vignettes illustrating this and other simple logical errors might be cited, but the point is clear enough: both innumeracy and defective logic provide a fertile soil for the growth of pseudoscience. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z On the freshly turned soil, the gold glittered like fairy dust. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Outside of a few lakes, there was only hardscrabble ground and the soil wasn’t so deep for growing crops. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But any food production that did arise indigenously in Australia would have been limited by the lack of domesticable animals, the poverty of domesticable plants, and the difficult soils and climate. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “And yet I knew and loved Sonia Armstrong. What do you think, then? That I would not soil my hands with killing such canaille as that man Cassetti? Well, perhaps you are right.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z But she’s walking now, over sticks and clumps of soil, following Dr. Martin. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z I cleared the trash, he turned the soil. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Ragweed is an annual; its seedlings require open soil to become established each year. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z It lay on the table a candle burning at each corner upon the envelope tied in a soiled pink garter two artificial flowers. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z I knelt and patted her grave, taking a handful of soil from it. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z That this soil would once again be English soil? The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z As he skittered along the soil, he scrambled to stay on his back, pressing his coarse palms into the ground to avoid turning over and having his face dragged through the dirt and rocks. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Farmers grab a few harvests, but the soil is not bared to rain and sun long enough to incur permanent damage. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I pour the leftover dirt into Claudia's pot, and then place the roots in the middle, pressing the soil around it. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Laila woke up, out of breath, with a taste of soil in her mouth, when the first granular lumps of dirt hit the plastic. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z I was planning on assessing the acidity of the soil in my garden for the rest of the week. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z The older couple wore matching gold bands on their rough and callused ring fingers, and the man’s nails, like Sparrow’s, bore dark crescents from working with soil. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Clinging to one of the greasy rocks and blending almost perfectly with it was a large, unkempt, and exceedingly soiled bird who looked more like a dirty floor mop than anything else. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z There was the smell of freshness in the air, that edible scent the baked soil gave out at the first touch of rain. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Every night hundreds of planes pass over Holland on their way to German cities, to sow their bombs on German soil. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z I wondered how long it had been since this particular square of soil had seen the sun. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Turns out being on the surface of Mars for a few million years eliminates all the water in the soil. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z "Please dig thirty centimeters and get soil samples. At least one hundred grams each. Very important is thirty centimeters down." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The smell was familiar, the one he had smelled when he crawled out from under the bush, after the thunderstorm, fresh and cool, but sweet-rotten, too, from the soil and the leaf-mould. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z He’d planted saber-toothed tiger teeth by mistake, and raised a batch of skeleton kittens from the soil. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z I found Arturo in the bathroom, stripping off his clothes, tiny crumbs of mushroom soil raining down to the floor. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z She asked her burrowing friends, the moles and the groundhogs, to dig through the dirt and loosen the soil. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z In the soil beneath his feet, he could feel a firmer strip, the print of a tractor wheel that had lately rolled over the surface. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The ground was covered with decayed leaves that had changed the top color of the brown soil to dark. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z They crossed the meadow whose soil was too thin for planting and entered the swamp. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z It's about the amount of soil you'd put in a window box, and the only seeds I have are a few species of grass and ferns. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z I took the mushroom home, brushed off the soil, and put it on a plate. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Frank’s blue shirt is covered in plenty of soil, and her plants no longer take up the special spot behind the driver’s seat. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z It took only a little while, though, before most of them seemed to lose track of me, their focus centered instead on the fit of their garden gloves and the worms in the soil. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z This soil is bad for certain kinds of flowers. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Ahead was nothing but a long strip of red soil. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Underneath, the soil was very wet and slippery, after the rain. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z Just before noon, they found a roughly rectangular clearing a few feet off the path, with soil that looked like it could be broken with their makeshift tools. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Up and up and up she went, methodically climbing past nests and ledges and tiny trees rooted in the cracks, and before long our robot felt the soft soil of the island beneath her feet. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Indeed, they looked less like plants than thick, black, giant slugs, protruding vertically out of the soil. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Just as water evaporating in a glass leaves behind a film of salts and minerals, water evaporating from irrigation channels leaves deposits in the soil. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z They wouldn’t care if the soil was more porous. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z We pounded the furrows with shovel blades and hoes, trying to break down the soil. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z I pinched my arm viciously, but the soil only spread. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z One shows the Machinery Building soiled by smoke and litter. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z It threaded between boulders and past baobab trees with their roots firmly tapped into pockets of water in the soil. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z She’s heavyset, with a furrowed brow and a soiled apron, and he’s got thin strips of hair across his bony head. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z He was wearing his scarlet silks, soiled and travel- stained. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Almost immediately the hard soil gave- way to marsh, and I was glomping through muck up to my ankles. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Even my own parents, though they arrived by plane from India, first stepped foot on American soil in New York. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z Situated in the coastal plain of southwest Alabama, the fertile, rich black soil of the area attracted white settlers from the Carolinas who amassed very successful plantations and a huge slave population. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Grassland, mesquite, scattered low shrubs, and bare rocky soil surrounded both sides of the border. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z Sprays of dirt flew up from the soil, like we were being strafed by gunfire. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Meanwhile the girl fetched all her soiled apparel to bundle in the polished wagon box. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z He was the first man to stick the cold steel point of a turning plow into the virgin soil. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Their mound-building activities serve a useful purpose in aerating and draining the soil. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z I slowed, crawling over thick branches that arched through the air like tentacles before diving into the fertile soil and becoming roots. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Alfhercht paced out a long, wide area, and dug his fingers into the soil at four points. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z The smallfolk too poor to own either one pulled their own plows through the thin, stony soil. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z For the microbes include not only disease organisms but those that destroy waste matter, make soils fertile, and enter into countless biological processes like fermentation and nitrification. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z As he pulled off the soiled sheets he dislodged the panties I had put under the mattress. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z So Sam planted saplings in all the places where specially beautiful or beloved trees had been destroyed, and he put a grain of the precious dust in the soil at the root of each. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Agriculture was another nonstarter in Australia, which is not only the driest continent but also the one with the most infertile soils. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z And underfoot was not soil but broken rock, split into small cubes, great slabs, but none of it water-rounded. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z She looked over the red hillside, at the rocks and the soil and the scrub grass, and then at the arch of the sky, pink and gold in the east. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Another stab and the bag is laid open and soil spills out. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z Filthy toothless creatures in oversized, soiled prisoner uniforms. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z Those hunters would regularly set fire to the prairie to keep it free of trees and nourish the soil. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z My doubts rise insidiously from the soil of my mind like creeping, choking vines. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Severe diaper rash on the baby indicated that she had sat in soiled diapers for hours—if not days—on end. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z She spread her arms and the earth bent towards her - trees tilting, bedrock groaning, soil rippling in waves. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z It reminded me of sermons I’d heard from priests and preachers about planting in dry soil. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z She missed me and sprawled in the soil, then picked up a big handful of the dirt, sprinkled it over her body, and proceeded to lick it up. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z We, who were oudaws not so long ago, have today been given the rare privilege to be host to the nations of the world on our own soil. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Besides all this horde of minute but ceaselessly toiling creatures there are of course many larger forms, for soil life runs the gamut from bacteria to mammals. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z What was odd was that you couldn’t smell no grass nor trees nor even soil. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z The soil in the courtyard was dry and rocky. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z As we spoke, nurses began unwinding his soiled bandages, exposing a myriad of shallow slices all over his forehead and left cheek. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z She wore a soiled housecoat and high- heeled gold leather sandals. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z After a time Strawberry stopped digging and began moving about between the roots, sniffing, biting and scuffling in the soil with his front paws. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The water also ate away some of the soil from around the pillars holding up our house, making it even more precarious. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z The boy...the wheelchair...the potting soil...there’s a lot to explain! The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z The Tigris- Euphrates, Nile, Indus, and Huang He Valleys were fertile, sunny, well-watered breadbaskets with long stretches of bottomland that practically invited farmers to stick seeds in the soil. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Smoke from the stack had soiled the Greek flag. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Deep tilling of the soil isn't a good idea unless you are facing the kind of ground we have here in the Gardens of Glenwood. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z A few pines along the edge of the wood had been scorched, but deeper in the damp soil and green wood had defeated the flames. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z After a few laps, I had compressed the soil enough to have a solid path. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “When you change them, wrap the soiled ones in toilet paper, so no one can see. Do you want me to help you put the first one on?” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Jethro had learned to accept the whims of fate, schooled as he was in the philosophy of men who work the soil. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z Further down the long trough of soil, Lena was cutting a large red one. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z “It’s damp fur down and warm on top,” he remarked, poking a brown hand deep into the soil. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z Organic matter is broken down as it passes through the digestive tracts of the worms and the soil is enriched by their excretory products. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Correspondingly, most nutrients in tropical forests are stored not in the soil, as in temperate regions, but in the vegetation that covers it. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z They were not pure, but they had a potential of purity, like a soiled white shirt. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z One time I saw an old jet-black woman, bent like an ostrich with its head in the sand, trying to cultivate the bone-dry soil with a broken hoe. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z A third ended with a cave-in of tangled wood and soil. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I said, “One of our most treasured feelings concerns roots, growing up rooted in some soil or some community.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The fingers of my fuzzy pink mittens dig into the damp soil, the cold seeping through to my skin. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z This made it quite easy to move around, except that the slopes above the valley were very steep in places, and I slipped several times on the loose, gravelly soil. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z “Our blood, our sweat, our labor are in American soil,” cried the Reverend Ruben Speaks, pastor of St. Mark’s AME Zion Church, standing on the steps of City Hall. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z A stableboy stood behind her, a smirk on his face, his filthy white undertunic peeking out from beneath a soiled jerkin. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The only way it’s possible for plants to be growing in space is with Mom’s time-released nutrients, like she’d used in Hyperion’s soil. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The refrigerator in front of them had bounced the sunlight back on the soil, heating it up like an oven. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He was not a man to show public affection on foreign soil. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z I looked at the rows of tilled-up soil splayed out like open wounds and did as I was told. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z I had been equipped by the organization with a demonstrator’s tools and I spent part of each day testing the soil and performing experiments. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I looked down and picked up a fistful of cool soil. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z He sprinkled the soil with red liquid, tossed the can away, and held his arms out wide. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Tyrion found Penny asleep in a comer of their tent, curled up on a thin straw pallet beneath a heap of soiled bedclothes. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z But the Islamist regime that came to power in Sudan in a 1989 coup wanted access to the vital soil of the Nuba valleys. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z She wiped the tears off both sides of her face with the back of her left hand, leaving dark lines of soil along her cheekbones. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Her hair was as black as tilled soil. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z If you didn’t tend the soil, then you bought and sold in the market, and before my father gave himself to the fields, he led the crazy life of a traveling trader. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z He slipped the clean diaper under the baby’s bungy with one hand before removing the soiled diaper with the other. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z They came to drier soil with strangler figs splitting the rocks. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “What is it that black peasants want, then?” asked an Afrikaner with a scruffy red beard, in soiled overalls. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Huge, isolated, it grew in unlikely soil—entwined in its own roots. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z They are, by and large, indispensable to each other, living in interdependent communities in the soil or sea. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z This room never had a wooden floor, just soil packed hard and smooth. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z They taught metrics and agriculture: how to count potatoes, how to pave roads, chop wood, till the soil. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z And so they sat together until the dawn light came, pallid and gray, and they saw that the soil of Tab’s grave was newly rimed with frost. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Dell says: "Did you taste the soil to find out?" Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Groundsel, who felt that he ought to set an example, himself dug his way into the loose, fallen soil of one of the bank runs. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I smelled the sweat and soil and soap on the tender skin. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Throughout the war, ground personnel lived in underground dugouts they built themselves, no more than trenches covered with logs and soil—or even just with canvas. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z The soils in industrial farms are often lifeless. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Lest anyone doubt the importance of what he was doing in Vietnam, he carefully linked American independence and freedom with the “steaming soil” of faraway Vietnam. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z The rain quickly went from a sprinkle to a downpour, thundering against the leaves and trenching water through the soil. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z But mostly I am hoping someone will figure out that I need a slop bucket before I soil my slops. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z The wind was so strong that it carried off some of the soil from the surface of the ground, and then the hurricane drove a wall of water up the Angara. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z At this moment the soil at the far end of the burrow began to crumble inward: then it fell away and Silver’s head and front paws appeared. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z And as if after dragging up roots, she has finally managed to yank them free of the soil they have clung to, she finds she can move her own feet toward the car. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z On the floor lay a soiled undergarment of cheap silk a little too pink, from a half open bureau drawer dangled a single stocking. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z And she was pulling hair out of her head as easily as one lifts new wheat from wet soil. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Trees, forced by the damp heat, found too little soil for full growth, fell early and decayed: creepers cradled them, and new saplings searched a way up. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Her skin, usually the smooth brown of groundnut paste, looked like the liquid had been sucked out of it, ashen, like the color of cracked harmattan soil. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z In east Texas, soil was poor and rain was in short supply. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Not so long ago, the woods must have extended further, because you could see here and there ghostly dead trunks poking out of the soil, most of them broken off only a few feet up. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z The ecological constraints on tropical soils are in large part due to the gravitational energy of raindrops. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The others began to push the loose soil back into the grave. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z I'd doubled the soil enough that I could afford to leave a little corner of it alone. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Was his life just fertilizer for the soil? Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z When she pulled the front of the soiled diaper off and saw blood, she screamed at Papa, “Viejo, he is getting worse! Look, there’s blood in his stool!” The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z I watch her blood droplets fall on soil, and she stands behind their seats alone. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z The cutting was in a small airtight box with some soil, still a little damp. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z So by taking a bite of grass, a cow actually helps create new soil. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Weighted down by my body inside hers, she leaped from Dominican soil into the water, and out again on the Haitian side of the river. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z All along, he had been preparing for this, if not on American soil, then back in the old country. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z For a time, I attempted to grow peanuts, and used different soils and fertilizers, but finally I gave up. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Nothing except the roots of the old peach tree...and a whole lot of earthworms and centipedes and insects living in the soil. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z The gunk smelled like potting soil, cedar chips, grape juice and just a hint of fertilizer. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Beneath them the ground was soft and the soil was as black as coal. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Light sandy soils suffer far more heavily than humus types. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Every now and then, I poked into the soil at the base of a trunk. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z The soil was damp but no water oozed into the hole he had made, even when it was eighteen inches deep. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Let's say I put soil in on them, too. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z And there is even some evidence that the scraggly weeds and dismal, sterile soil—perhaps even the stones hurled at Mercer by unseen alleged parties—are equally faked. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z One group of women loaded soiled laundry into the enormous boilers. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z In consequence, he said, archaeologists in the Amazon have been forced to adopt other methods, from soil chemistry to network theory. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z That means I need more surface area for farming, and more water to hydrate the soil. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Dad was watching a debate about whether or not Britain should have American cruise missiles on its soil. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z For it is not the least of its terrors that this evil thing is rooted deep in all good; in soil barren of holy memories it cannot rest.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z Papá tilled the soil with the tractor while Trampita and I pulled out weeds. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z Cinder and smoke drifted like soiled gauze past the window. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z He found quite soon that even if he had ten thousand acres of hill country he could not make a living on the bony soil without water. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Operation Gold had been blown before the first shovel of soil had been removed from "Harvey's Hole." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly, Hooper threw himself forwards, and began to beat his fists into the ground, tearing convulsively at the leaves and soil with his nails, and making a hoarse, screaming sound, low down in his throat. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z “It is you and such as you that have let the barbarians onto the sacred soil of the fatherland.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Using both hands, he dug a hole in the soggy soil. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z How could I explain to Anatole about soybean fields where men sat in huge tractors like kings on thrones, taming the soil from one horizon to the other? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Next came the seeders, whose job was to push cane cuttings into the cane holes or the rows made by the plows, and cover them with soil. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z I think about what Kay said, think: this is me watering the soil, this is me waiting for the harvest. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z "A leg of lamb would be pleasant," he said, from the heap of soiled straw in the comer of his cell. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z But on the black land twenty minutes down the road, the soil has been decimated by years of overfarming and overgrazing. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Her gardening gloves, still smudged with the last soil she’d ever lifted; a box of her favorite tea, which had long ago lost its peppermint scent; the thick candy-cane-striped kneesocks she wore in winter. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z The soil had a lot of clay and there were some sacks of chicken manure to add to it. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z When she reached for her skirt, a carelessly raised foot revealed a patch of soil on each pad of her sweetly diminishing toes. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z But I know enough to realize that the sick feeling in me is only going to grow, like a seed in the right soil. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The man spat on the curb and adjusted his soiled pants. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z “Don’t feel like you have to watch over the crazy girl pushing a load of potting soil. I’ll be fine.” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z The floor was packed dirt with a forlorn little heap of soil here and there where some burrowing animal had got in. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z But after a few years all the nutrients are gone from the soil. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z It is only reasonable to suppose that all birds and mammals heavily dependent on earthworms or other soil organisms for food are threatened by the robins’ fate. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Once we were down to the fossil “bed” we chipped away at the hard soil with hunting knives, searching for bones. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z He grimaced as Ihe woman slid the point of her knife beneath the soiled linen wound about his shield hand. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z They climbed one hill, and then another, and the red soil covered everything until even her hands were tinged a rusty brown. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z I jabbed the small shovel into the earth, harder and harder, pretending the soil was the commander. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z The small brown tubers under the soil would be available throughout the dry season. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “It was in one of your books—you know, growing plants indoors, without soil, just using water and special minerals.” Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z It was not hard to find foot- and hoofprints in the grass and soil, as well as the imprints of many drag poles. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z Forgetting all decorum, I leap through the soft wet soil, careless of the seedlings underfoot, and rise on my toes to embrace him. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z One of the garrons whickered and pawed at the thin stony soil of the hollow where they had taken shelter. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z While I already stressed the difficulties posed by Australia’s climate and soils, its most productive or fertile areas can nevertheless support European farming. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z We spent the next hour sweeping the heavy mat of soiled and soggy rushes onto the ground, spreading a fresh supply from a wagon over the boards, then loading the old ones on the wagon. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z This is not about Girl Cons and Sex Monkey workshops, which, frankly, makes my mouth feel soiled just sayin’ it. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z I looked down at the trees waving in the distance, and the gorgeous brown Alabama soil that seemed to be rising to meet me. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z It looked like a flash flood had come through and just taken out too much soil. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Again Kendra smelled the earthy aromas of the Fairy Queen—rich soil and young blossoms. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z His face is gaunt, his voice shaky; his once fancy guayabera is soiled and hangs on him, several sizes too large. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I followed the jumping light into the garden, where dry stalks pointed to the skies like scrawny fingers, and rotted, wormy vegetables sank into the cracks of the parched soil. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps there is some special inorganic, nonliving catalyst in the soil that is able to fix atmospheric gases and convert them into organic molecules. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Every day I reclaimed from the rocky soil of the hill a few more feet of earth to cultivate. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Still other soil microbes perform various oxidations and reductions by which minerals such as iron, manganese, and sulfur are transformed and made available to plants. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z We filled them with dark soil, deep and cool. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z The fresh stench of night soil in the bushes. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Because when the bloom opens, it's like having a dead body pop up from the soil. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Growing corn and nothing but corn has also damaged the soil of our farmlands, polluted the water, and threatened the health of all the creatures downstream. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Perhaps there is an exotic inorganic chemistry in the Martian soil that is able by itself, in the absence of Martian microbes, to oxidize foodstuffs. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z We mischievously overturned the buckets of excrement reeking by the entrance gate awaiting pickup by the night soil men, who seldom came. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z He murped when he saw me, staggering up from the soil floor and lifting his arms to be held. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z The Chicago men understood the challenge that this soil presented; the New York men, accustomed to bedrock, did not. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Clara asked her granddaughter to take the boy out to play in the garden and make sure he did not soil his clothes, drown in the fountain, eat dirt, or play with his fly. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z It was easier after the first cut, but I went carefully, my shovel slicing through the sandy soil, for fear I would hit something too hard. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z Instead of toxic pesticides, crops are sprayed with natural substances, like BT, a pesticide made from a common soil bacteria. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z It kills off the nitrogen-fixing bacteria that make the soil fertile. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z He returned from his visit to Jeremy Finch with this to report: that there were logs in the soil. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Besides that, they did not want Caesar and Pompey’s next battle to be waged on Egyptian soil. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z The leaves and soil were mulched together underfoot, and the grass was wet. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z As she straightened at last, and gathered her bowl and all the soiled cotton wool, a doctor came and she was dismissed. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The soil here was rich, never having yielded before, and loose so that it did not require much digging. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Somehow, Ben felt, dead languages could sway God more easily than a language soiled by everyday use. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Often she found herself thinking of the beauty of Maryland, the mellowness of the soil, the richness of the plant life there. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead of completely burning organic matter to ash, ancient farmers burned it incompletely to make charcoal, then stirred the charcoal into the soil. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z It was on this soil that my grandfather had gone on a hunting trip with King Nadir Shah and shot a deer. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z As a result, most of the soil was either no longer fertile or had washed away. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z “Look what we got!” he exclaimed, dangling a pair of worn and soiled tennis shoes in front of me. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z So I still have not changed the bed, though it is soiled. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z He tapped his toes at the air, two inches above the soggy soil, as he finished affixing the sign to the Emporium’s door. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z The point was that at both trials all three men had confessed that on that date they had been on Eurasian soil. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z I'll need to get more soil when I can, but it's enough for now. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Eberechi’s aunty had a white scarf tied around her head and a soiled wrapper around her chest and she spoke so quietly that Richard had to ask her to repeat herself. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z We must not only be concerned with what is happening to the soil; we must wonder to what extent insecticides are absorbed from contaminated soils and introduced into plant tissues. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z She hadn’t thought about this boggy soil—muskeg—since before she had died. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z The woman who owned a poodle was usually small, plump, white, soiled and with rheumy eyes just like a poodle. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m suddenly aware how odd it is to be running with a load of potting soil in a wheelchair. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z The FBI was learning, but it still had only the faintest idea of the enemy it faced on American soil. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The soil destined to support the northern half of the building showed total settlement of less than one inch, consistent with the rest of the park. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z That he is a man who understands the power of the German soil, who feels its dark prehistoric vigor thudding in his very cells. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Fadi peered closely at the tree’s winding roots pushing up from the rich soil. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z The war was to be waged on East Pakistani soil. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z The richest acre of Iowa soil could never feed thirty thousand hungry corn plants year after year without added fertilizer. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The soil was sandy enough so that water never stood about or filled a hole for long. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps these dead soils don’t supply all the raw ingredients plants need to make polyphenols. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Once, a thin black serpent wriggled over the yellow soil in front of them. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z I raked the leaves away and let his blood drip on the black mountain soil. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Poke a stick in the sandy soil and a few blue-skinned beetles would appear, an avenue of ants, so many crusty lady bugs. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z They lay on the lawn, their pink and white flowers grazing the grass, their roots waving lumpy soil in the air. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z We shove the dirt over the book, tamping down the disturbed soil. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z For Bobby, the Geller statement had soiled the first official ceremony of the match. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Now his life had the sun and the soil to keep growing. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z They came out into the courtyard where a last silvery daylight still hung above the soiled, trodden snow. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z Second, when gases from Earth were introduced into the Martian soil sample, the gases became chemically combined with the soil—almost as if there were photosynthesizing microbes, generating organic matter from atmospheric gases. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The survivors shovel the soil over the coffins and disband. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z They will send roots down as far as six feet into the soil. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Their church clothes were soiled by the time the last mass rolled around at six. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Terrestrial soil is loaded with the organic remains of once-living organisms; Martian soil has less organic matter than the surface of the Moon. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z This feeling sprang up of itself, organically, automatically; like the rotted hull of a seed forming the soil in which it should grow again. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z The presence of earthworms increases the nitrifying powers of the soil bacteria and decreases putrifaction of the soil. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z I flop onto my back again, dig my fingers into the loamy soil and imagine Mom making that incredible painting, wishing with her hands, being that in love. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z “These trees aren’t useless. They protect the underbrush from sunlight, which keeps the soil from eroding.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z After I finally made the cut and handed it to Songololo, she looked at my hand and kissed it, knocking the fragment to the soil. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z In the rich black soil along the lakeshore, he grew tall sweet corn and large, luscious tomatoes, both perpetual challenges to Seattle gardeners. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Like a plant that’s been moved into the wrong sort of soil and, lacking something vital, has begun to wilt. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “American troops are pushing into German soil. The Russians have captured back all of Romania. Only yesterday the Greeks in the Eighth Army captured Rimini. The Germans are on the defensive everywhere!” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z We occupied the land, the forests, the rivers; we extracted the mineral wealth beneath the soil and all the riches of this beautiful country. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I push Pop’s wheelchair into the bathroom, where I quickly help him change his soiled diaper. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z It is not surprising that the studies are not always in agreement, for soil types vary so enormously that what causes damage in one may be innocuous in another. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Then she removed the overcoat and hat and took a soiled apron down from the wall and put it on and built a fire in the stove. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z A hundred yards away, at the crest of the next hill, the grass and soil swirled upward like the point of a massive drill. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Special soil microorganisms are also likely to play a role in its persistent fertility. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z She had taken the soiled diapers off, scraped them as clean as she could, refastened them around her daughter’s waist. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Chemical control of insects seems to have proceeded on the assumption that the soil could and would sustain any amount of insult via the introduction of poisons without striking back. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Lets his words settle like the soil in her flower beds. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Where South Africa’s white countryside was lush and irrigated and green, the black lands were overpopulated and overgrazed, the soil depleted and eroding. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z He saw the good red soil and clean water flowing through it, the plants that sprang up and the animals that bounded through them. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z There lay the old soil, and the plants of it so ancient they had worn themselves out. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Even the light bulb above the pool table shined dim soiled light. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z To understand more clearly how the pollution of our world is happening, we must now look at another of the earth’s basic resources, the soil. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The authorities then filled each half with rich, moist soil, creating in effect thirty-two giant flowerpots. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Over the next four months, they removed more than 3,000 tons of sand and soil, carefully inserting steel rings into the tunnel as they dug beneath Berlin's streets. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The threadbare knees of last year’s overalls opened up, and his bare knees scraped the soil. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The coolness of the rich, black soil felt good to my bare feet. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1898, prospecting led him to a nearly vacant trail crossing that the trappers called Edmonton, where he found that the soil was the perfect medium for making brick. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Darwin’s calculations showed that the toil of earthworms might add a laver of soil an inch to an inch and a half thick in a ten year period. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The town was contaminated with toxic amounts of metal and chemicals in the soil, but all the people were safe. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The world was black soil and white wood. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z According to Richard Bissell, pilots were "exhorted but not ordered" to use the pin if they were ever captured on Soviet soil. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z At first glance, the soil seemed similar to what one would find in, say, the grain belts of North America or Europe. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The female Tiphia, finding a beetle grub in the soil, injects a paralyzing fluid and attaches a single egg to the undersurface of the grub. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z There was soil in his eyes, his ears and nostrils. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z As Groundsel had said, it was plainly thin—brittle as ice on a puddle—chalk, pebbles and light soil. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z By their presence and by their activities the myriad organisms of the soil make it capable of supporting the earth’s green mantle. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “And to answer your question . .. you are far less likely to soil your pants and cry for your mother if you’re prepared to defend yourself.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z I put my trowel down and stick my fingers into the soil. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z Life not only formed the soil, but other living things of incredible abundance and diversity now exist within it; if this were not so the soil would be a dead and sterile thing. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Notice the freshly dug soil at the base of that oak tree? The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z There will be no foul weather, or any parasites to hassle them, or any weeds to compete with for soil or nutrients. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z We have seen that they now contaminate soil, water, and food, that they have the power to make our streams fishless and our gardens and woodlands silent and birdless. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Despite the heat, there is no escaping the fact that the bright sun and rich soil make the area ideal for growing things once you add water to the equation. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z It smelled of rich soil and new blossoms, with just a hint of the sea. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z The rich soil was clinging to his boots. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z But Juana’s hand came creeping over to him in warning, and then the sound came again! the whisper of a foot on dry earth and the scratch of fingers in the soil. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z There are dozens of species of bacteria living in Earth soil, and they're critical to plant growth. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The dense, hard soil suddenly gave way to soft powder. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z But once I mixed some soil in, it died down to tolerable levels. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “What your wife is doing is neither good nor bad. Saints can spring from any soil. Maybe with this money she would do some fine thing. There’s no springboard to philanthropy like a bad conscience.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Under Percy’s hand, the soil felt alarmingly warm and smooth. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Even the soil, once rich and brown, had turned brittle and ash gray. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Mom casually refers to her revolutionary soil additive. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z By the afternoon of the following day, the aluminum tub was almost filled with soiled diapers. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Burnham knew how to deal with Chicago’s notoriously flimsy soil, but Jackson Park surprised even him. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Here and there are worms, evidence of the fertility of the soil, caught by the sun, half dead; flexible and pink, like lips. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z This plant, which the purist would doubtless consider a weed in any rosebed, releases an excretion from its roots that kills the soil nematodes. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z In contrast, Australia has by far the oldest, most infertile, most nutrient-leached soils of any continent, because of Australia’s little volcanic activity and its lack of high mountains and glaciers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It tasted like a sausage made from frothed soil and grass. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z We managed to unearth the two containers rather quickly, and covered the area again with soil. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z With little soil wealth to extract, she said, Amazonian farmers face inherent ecological limitations. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “See that ground vine with the tiny leaves? It’s a rare plant called drapeweed that flourishes in thin soil.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z Outside the window I see three sets of tracks paralleling the one we are on, brown and silver, and beyond them broad flat fields of furrowed soil. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z He would try to hold every inch of his soil, to defend every man, woman, and child who named him lord, and Tywin Lannister was shrewd enough to know that. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Captain Newport tells us that the soil and rocks we sent back to England were just that—dirt and rocks. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z At last, on April 23, nine days after the assassination, John Wilkes Booth and David Herold set foot on Virginia soil. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z One of the key assumptions of Eratosthenes’ measurement of the earth’s circumference—that the planet is spherical—would have been reinforced in his mind even before he set foot on Egyptian soil. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z If you let it, it will take over each and every patch of ground it encounters, adding the soil’s biological and technological distinctiveness to its own. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z At the moment it is mostly an arrangement of packed soil and stacks of stone forming tall but rudimentary walls. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Then he ordered the state-controlled Reuters News Agency to issue a statement: “Inexorably and not without justification we demand Braddock shall defend the title on German soil.” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The British followed by turning Barbados into a sugar island; then the French found rich soil on Hispaniola all over again. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Get back to soil and there would be people and he could tie her up to a dock in a marina and call his parents and they would come to him and bring him food. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z We are still waiting for the potting soil, so Dell and I carry the three machines up to #28 and right away I start to take them apart. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Scientists of the Dutch Plant Protection Service did not recommend chemical sprays or soil treatments; instead, they suggested that marigolds be planted among the roses. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The procession waited on the grassy shore as Dany stripped and let her soiled clothing fall to the ground. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The old man looked at the soil that fed his peach tree. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z In the shadows stood vats and barrels and mounds of dark matter, possibly soil. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z As any engineer knew, soil under pressure tended to shift to fill adjacent excavations. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Every spring, Mom had us dumping layers of bagged soil and manure on top of the garden plot to help the seeds along. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z She was quiet for a long time, patting the soil, even though the flower was already planted. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The soil was littered with boulders, the spaces between with deep sand, where the harvester wallowed and complained before struggling on. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z One more doubling and the usable soil will all be good to go. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z I didn't till the soil or weed the flowerbeds or try to graft a tree limb; I sat in the shade and listened to my Japanese language instruction. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z “The general albedo of Mercury is low and most of the soil is gray pumice. Something like the Moon, you know. Beautiful, isn’t it?” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z The air smells of damp stones and soil. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z But do we know enough about the sunlight that warmed them, the soil in which they put down the roots, and the rabbits and lumberjacks they were lucky enough to avoid? Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z He wore a tunic, patched and soiled, and leggings— oxhide patches, bound below his knees against the brambles; gauntlets on his hands and on his head a goatskin cowl of sorrow. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “But you are getting a man who adores you like he does this rich soil we’re standing on.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It has rich soils, reliable moderate rainfall, and a suitable climate that sustains bountiful agriculture today. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Gloria then explained what a period was, how long it lasted, what a woman had to do so her clothes wouldn’t get soiled. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Such findings raise the possibility that scientists might be able to create a “package” of charcoal, nutrients, and microfauna that could be used to transform bad tropical soil into terra preta. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z His overalls were soiled; his hands were cut and bruised. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z The layer of black soil is generally one to two feet deep but can reach more than six feet. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z When the coals are hot, I push them into the hole, place the fish on them, and cover all with leaves, then soil. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z If the spacecraft’s three landing pods had sunk deeply into a loosely packed soil, various undesirable consequences would have followed, including immobilization of the sample arm. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps in that moment he remembered how his father had buried everything Japanese beneath the soil of his farm. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Her lips are scabbed, and her sweater is pilled and soiled with dirt. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z I felt the soil near one of her holes. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z I liked the thought that three billion bugs fly over my head in a single month in summer or that an inch of soil might contain millions of creatures from thousands of different species. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z I scoop the soil over the bird, smoothing it flat before standing. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z When the soil is too alkaline, which can be thought of as being too sweet, you need to add sulfur. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z A small boy—younger than Alan—lies in soiled clothes, his eyes sunken and closed, long lashes flickering. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z Something was wrong with each, however—drainage, sunlight, clay soil. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z “Nobody in Europe or Asia that I know of ever understood the properties of charcoal in soil.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Residues of these chemicals linger in soil to which they may have been applied a dozen years before. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Determined to shake my dismal thoughts, I wiped my tears with a corner of the soiled linen sheet that clung to me. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z When Bod was nine he had been exploring in just this part of the world when the soil had given way beneath him, tumbling him into a hole almost twenty feet down. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z The sky peeked through the leaves in brilliant blue, and she could smell the rich scent of the earth beneath her: crushed leaves from last fall, acorns slowly decaying into soil. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z It was yellow now, and cracked, and soiled, and when they gave it into Ben’s hand he hushed for a while. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Peanuts grown later in this soil pick up considerable amounts of the insecticide. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Sitting with my feet on the soiled canvas I felt as though I had wandered into the percussion section of a symphony orchestra. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z More surprising still, the ceramics in the farm’s terra preta indicate that the soil has retained its nutrients for as much as a millennium. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He worked that soil until it flowed through your fingers like silk. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Other waiters wore soiled white shirts or clean shirts indifferently ironed, and celluloid collars. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I am smeared in soil, and I have just made a fool of myself. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z He that said “I sweat,” he gathered up soil and seawater and with them made trees, plants, herbs and grains of the field, animals, and men. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Come to the city pier, we stepped forth upon enemy soil and charged our muskets. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Her heels gouged ditches in the soil as she struggled to stand, to push up, to run away. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z “Other attacks on American soil were by nations; this is the first transnational terrorist attack on the World Trade Center.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z Angela, too frightened to notice that Sydelle ran through the apartment with her crutch in the air, found her partner in the bathroom frantically tossing soiled towels from the hamper. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z I imagined her seeing my soiled clothes, the little flowers she had worked so hard to make. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Tears glistened on the woman's pale cheeks as a huge tree was heaved out of the soil. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Similarly, chemicals sprayed on croplands or forests or gardens lie long in soil, entering into living organisms, passing from one to another in a chain of poisoning and death. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Yet, Sam Adams protested, this rising up of an army of a thousand from the very soil of New England had badly frightened General Gage. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Civilian Conservation Corps planted millions of kuzu seedlings to fight soil loss, a major fear in the era of the Dust Bowl. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I watched nervously as the guard took sharp white teeth out of the pot and pushed them into the soil. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z I'm talking about that first year, before there were spigots and hoses, and the toolshed, and new soil. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I still don't have the water to moisten all that soil, but like I said, one thing at a time. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Unlike most trees, it finds nutrients by killing those that feed on its fruit and by using the bodies of its victims to fertilize the soil around it. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Four years later the soil still contained heptachlor, and scientists were unable to predict how long it would remain poisonous, or to recommend any procedure for correcting the condition. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z When they finally got permission to go in and looked in at him in the cell, he was twisted up in a corner badly beaten and dressed in nothing but extremely soiled underwear. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z It showed no variation but of tint: green, where rush and moss overgrew the marshes; black, where the dry soil bore only heath. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z American soldiers found Germany’s entire supply of uranium at a nearby farm, freshly plowed under the soil. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z She wastes no time retrieving a soil sample pouch. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z She turned and frowned, framed in the door; behind her in the gloom, circuits of soiled plates glowed faintly like the lunar phases. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Much of it was damply rotten and full of insects that scurried; logs had to be lined from the soil with care or they crumbled into sodden powder. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Then, as I watched, a tiny silver plant sprang out of the soil—a baby moonlace, glowing in the warm summer night. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Putting them in new soil can be like hitting a reset button.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z His fingernails caked in soil, Fadi was about to call it quits when the earth loosened around a small tin box in their twenty-sixth pit. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z A man’s first loyalty is to the soil he stands on.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z Ch’ulp’o had become an important village for ceramics by virtue of both its location and its soil. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z Only now the soil is several inches higher than it was, sloping upward behind the ladder. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Propped on two soiled pillows, the blanket pulled up to her chin, she just stares at me when I come in. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z The soil was a baked reddish brown, like terra-cotta, with patches of dried-up stubble here and there. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z He pulls off his filthy shirt, revealing an equally soiled undershirt, and rubs himself down with the dry part. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z After all these years, I was home again, standing on the soil of my ancestors. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I crouched behind a big ceiba, my fist in my mouth, listening to the thud of soil hitting the box. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Then everyone let go at the same time and the Po-2, heavy with bombs, struggled up from the sandy soil to climb above the pine or birch trees. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z I took long strides to the nearest dead tree trunk, where the soil was firmer, and held onto it for balance. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Indeed, the weight was already pulling a lump from the poor soil and soon it would fall. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z We are told also that milky spore disease cannot be used on the periphery of the beetle’s range because it can be established only where a large grub population is already present in the soil. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Spotting a duck or some other flying prey, he would take aim and fire until the air was laced with smoke and blood drained into the soil. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z I vowed to work hard for His favor, surpassing all others in my devotion to turning the soil for God’s great glory. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “Look!” he called suddenly, aiming the light at a patch of soil just in front of him. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z In the same way, and perhaps quite unknown to us, other plants that we ruthlessly eradicate may be performing a function that is necessary to the health of the soil. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z When the crater had been filled, Fiona dragged some shrubs and vines over the raw soil and began to grow them. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z It was the only way to talk to him, not with words, but with hard work and the feel of old tools, and with fat bulbs buried and waiting deep in the rich soil. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z But left in one place, the chickens would eventually destroy the soil. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z And he stooped and took up a handful of the soil and he held it and he muttered, “If you sell the land, it is the end.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Then he put the soiled dishes into a square metal machine and pulled a lever, which brought hot water and hot air through the device. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z Despite their small size they play an important part in breaking down the residues of plants, aiding in the slow conversion of the litter of the forest floor to soil. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z They soil themselves every day instead of washing. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z When Pattie gets back with the potting soil, we are going to plant nine different types of sunflowers. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z I reminded myself that I was on American soil now, that this guy was on my side, that he got paid for helping people like me. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Then Wang Lung set himself robustly to the soil and he begrudged even the hours he must spend in the house for food and sleep. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z The weedy fields where the game lived had been leveled and their black soil turned over in neat rows. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Guards had dressed him in his ill-fitting prison outfit, which he’d soiled with excrement and urine. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The Angel of Death washed his knife in the water, soiled it, poisoned it. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z This was the consensus of a group of specialists who met at Syracuse University in i960 to discuss the ecology of the soil. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z And not to flush pads down the toilet, and to soak soiled underwear in cold water. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z And she hit her forehead on the bathroom mirror as she washed the soiled pants in the sink without soap, because there wasn’t any. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z She pulled a soiled shift down Over her head and shook her hair out. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The top half of the hill was dying, nothing left but bare soil, ruined by the orchids. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z He found a pouch of rice, a comb, a fingernail clipper, a few soiled piasters, a snapshot of a young woman standing in front of a parked motorcycle. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z To be viable, soil needs 40 liters of water per cubic meter. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Samuel whittled out a stout piece of sagewood and drove it into the soil. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z In Europe and Asia, farmers try to avoid stressing the soil by rotating crops; they may plant wheat one year, legumes the next, and let the field lie fallow in the year following. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z There are few studies more fascinating, and at the same time more neglected, than those of the teeming populations that exist in the dark realms of the soil. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “When I was sick—so sick, I thought I would die—sometimes the highlight of my day was that I hadn’t soiled myself.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z They stood for a long moment with their suddenly huge family staring off across shadowy fields and orchards, smelling the turned soil and the sweet night breeze. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Bacon limped behind me yelling, "Don't you dare soil my carpet again!" Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z The soiled clothes were dumped out of the wash basket and it was lined with a ragged but clean blanket and set up on two chairs near the stove. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Not only did Mark Antony hold the traditional Roman ceremony on foreign soil, he presented the war spoils to Cleopatra instead of to the people of Rome. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z So this was the soil out of which, a generation later, Lincoln’s rhetoric was to grow. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z As a result, farm soils can rapidly become exhausted. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z At the den site he promptly ignored her and went to his bed, a dish-like scoop in the soil on the highest point. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “Are you afraid to get your hands soiled?” Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z Together they had defeated gravity and conquered the soft gumbo of Chicago soil, to change forever the character of urban life; now, together, they would build the fair and change history. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z They fought under the soil with all their might. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Masses of Lithuanians with tattered suitcases and bulging bags poured out into the valley, dirty and gray with soiled clothing, as if they had lived in a gutter for years. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z As Lord of Northhome, he didn't need to soil his hands with work. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z For Sam he brought a coat of gilded mail, and his elven-cloak all healed of the soils and hurts that it had suffered; and then he laid before them two swords. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z I need to get a whole assload more soil into the Hab, even if it is dry and useless right now. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z I threw him out of my lap and heard him hit the soil behind me. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Also, the water would have dragged rock and soil samples from thousands of kilometers away. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z One type recognizes the importance of other proximate variables besides good institutions, such as public health, soil- and climate-imposed limits on agricultural productivity, and environmental fragility. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z They were wide and deep and clotted with soil, and the ground where he’d lain was muddy from blood. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z The soil no longer reached to the roof. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Flying free and the sickening thud of my skull on soil. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z Seldom is the question asked, What is the relation between the weed and the soil? Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Beer, candy wrappers, old movie ticket stubs, and one soiled pair of underwear had been left on the ground around it as offerings. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z Take this crown from me, bury me in my ancestral soil. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z The hole below was filled with a sludge of soiled water and worse, all the useless and unclean bits discarded during the slaughtering process. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z When you cut down a tropical forest, the soil is rich and fertile for a while. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z The breeze, still cool, carried the morning scent of prairie grasses and moist soil. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z But Wang Lung answered nothing because upon this ox he had set his heart because of its sturdy pulling of the soil and because of its smooth yellow coat and its full dark eye. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z The other 10 liters of water was directly absorbed by the dry soil. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z My country is rich in the minerals and gems that lie beneath its soil, but I have always known that its greatest wealth is its people, finer and truer than the purest diamonds. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The air smelled of dewy grass, damp soil, sweat, and death. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Other islands had rich soils but were not high enough to have large permanent streams and hence irrigation. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Only in the new bed where she’d just been working did the soil look tom up. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Sparring with his squires in the afternoon heat had left him feeling soiled and sweaty. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z At dinner I share the good news: "I tested the soil. And it is neutral. The pH is a perfect 7." Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z “Technically, Hawaii wasn’t US soil. It didn’t become a state until 1959. But, yes”—Mr. Schmidt stops writing—“the attack led to America’s entry into the war.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z At first, most of the buildings were low, four or five stories of soiled brick. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Already there are disturbing records of heavy mortality among more than 20 other species of ground-feeding birds whose food — worms, ants, grubs, or other soil organisms — has been poisoned. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “That was the most complicated eighth-grade science exhibit on soil in the history of the world.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z I covered them up, pressing the soil down firmly with my fingertips. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The repeated pattern doubtless has to do with geography—southeastern climate and soil favor plantation crops like tobacco and cotton. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z That close—twenty yards — and I could see the delicate latticework of the leaves, the texture of the soil, the browned needles beneath the pines, the configurations of geology and human history. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I touched them and could feel the soil fall off. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He hadn’t even seen it until he had thudded into the ground, into the damp soil, the jet of flame licking at the air just above him. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z Every few minutes Shukumar lit a few more birthday candles and drove them into the soil of the pot. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z As the plants moved in the breeze, the sunlight dappled and speckled back and forth over the brown soil, the white pebbles and weeds. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The plants grew in the soil and the sea, the beasts ran on the land and swam in the sea, but the men did not wake. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z “It must be soiled; the children have been tumbling it about.” The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z In spite of their minute size, the total weight of this host of bacteria in the top foot of a single acre of fertile soil may be as much as a thousand pounds. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Thales brought back from Babylon and Egypt the seeds of the new sciences of astronomy and geometry, sciences that would sprout and grow in the fertile soil of Ionia. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The soils are fragile red laterite and the rain is savage. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Kaede dug her fingers into the ground, trapping the soil beneath her nails. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z His fingers and face were soiled with black mud. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The elevations of the higher ones generate rain in the mountains, so the islands are heavily weathered and have deep soils and permanent streams. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z My father mopped his brow again and launched into the parable of the one mustard seed falling on a barren place, and the other one on good soil. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Precious as the fattest grubs turned up from the soil, which catch the largest fish. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Pipkin, however, readily joined Hazel at the foot of the bank and soon two or three more began scratching at the light soil. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I went to my room and took off my school uniform so I wouldn’t soil it on our trip. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z I push the window open and breathe in the soil and farm smells and woodsmoke. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z His hands would be swollen and painful from sifting the heavy, wet soil through his sieve. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z The lower slopes of the mountain are washed with gentle rains, and the air remains cool and fresh all year, and the volcanic soil produces rich crops of com. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z But the men—hungry, greedy, tired of planting in dry soil—had been forced to leave the village in order to send food-money home. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Further soiled by me drinking all his free drinks, like a stupid freeloader, not even tipping him for all the expensive cherries he keeps throwing on top. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z To survive, he ate worms and snails and other sluggish, deaf, and blind little creatures that inhabited the soft, mysterious soil. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z To grow them year after year without dread of flood or plague, in soil that offers up green stems that bend to the scythe again and again, bread from a bottomless basket. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The air smelled of the black soil brought down from the mountains to make Tía Mimi's giant ferns grow tall. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z He smears the masticated leaf all over Haye’s body, and then packs it with mossy soil. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z So when the soil is too acidic, which can be thought of as sour, you should lower the pH factor. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z She’d never noticed it before, but their coloring was the same—like the rich dark soil of the prairie. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z The sight of such soil, curling behind the blade of his plow, must have made him feel happy and confident. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Too Bad was so startled that his hand holding the soiled diaper flew out. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z I will water your soil, keep it rich and moist. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z When I tried to pick it up it crumbled in my hand like a clump of soil. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z The massive wheels tore deep trenches into the hard soil, the engine screamed, and my world contracted to noise and the stark, blinding headlight. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Danny’s block was heavily populated by the followers of his father, Russian Hasidic Jews in somber garb, whose habits and frames of reference were born on the soil of the land they had abandoned. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z My feet sink into spongy soil, and I start to sweat almost right away. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z Nigeria became where she was supposed to be, the only place she could sink her roots in without the constant urge to tug them out and shake off the soil. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z When the floodwater receded, it left behind a layer of fertile, black soil. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z The witch-queen, oldest of the Lilim, reined in the horses beside a pinnacle of rock the color of verdigris, which jutted from the marshy soil of the Barrens like a needle. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z The soil was dry now, completely out of reach of the water, except perhaps for when a tidal bore—a dangerous surge of water—rose suddenly after a storm and flooded the creek. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z Ray fungi, growing in long threadlike filaments, are somewhat less numerous than the bacteria, yet because they are larger their total weight in a given amount of soil may be about the same. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z When she was younger, she had asked Papa about that war, and he said he doubted it would be the last battle fought on American soil. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Who knew better how poisonous the soil was in Weep than she who had been poisoning it for ten long years? Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z After a while, the baboons fanned out and began digging earnestly in the soil. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The following morning Big Mary, chipped and soiled, stood over a landscape of twisted and blackened steel. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “Suddenly there were little green things everywhere! The soil was full of them!” James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z In general the effect of all this habitation of the soil is to aerate it and improve both its drainage and the penetration of water throughout the layers of plant growth. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z That shadow would marry this shadow, and the peculiar, yellowish soil of our locality seal the wound in the whiteness, and yet another snowfall erase the traces of newness in Joan's grave. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z They emptied their pockets of underwear and removed the layer of soiled socks. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Then she let him go and wiped her gloved hands on her legs, as if just touching him had soiled her. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Soheil is already at the bare plot, raking the earth, spreading out the soil where seeds will grow. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z She doesn't look like she has any idea what I'm talking about, even when I clarify that a Rototiller is a machine with sharp blades that mechanically chop soil. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z For the first time in forever, my feet are coming up off Michigan soil. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z In the second classroom, she felt that even the air inside her was becoming soiled and she wanted to press her nostrils shut to stop the mingling of the air outside and that inside her. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z We watched her weep as she stepped onto Pakistani soil for the first time in almost nine years. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Weeks earlier, we’d used shovels and hoes to prepare the soil. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Dark heavy soil poured down the Dragon's throat. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z The ground had been dug up; the soil was still fresh from where deep tree roots had been. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Within a week, the Martian soil will be ready for plants to germinate in. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z As applications of pesticides continue and the virtually indestructible residues continue to build up in the soil, it is almost certain that we are heading for trouble. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z She sat up, afraid that she had soiled herself as she slept. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Who knows. Perhaps they can drain it, tighten the soil; they have resources beyond our imagining. Or perhaps they wish to grow rice for their own men.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Dell drives me to the Southside plant nursery on Saturday and we buy rooting hormone and three large bags of potting soil. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z He hurried away from them with a shiver of eerie alarm and did not slacken his pace until the soil crumbled to dry sand beneath his feet and they had been left behind. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Even if it’s just the five of us, I’ll share the stories I know from Lita’s mother and her mother’s mother...I will make sure the folklore of my ancestors soak into Sagan’s soil. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Then living things began to work their creative magic and little by little these inert materials became soil. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Nhamo didn’t know whether the soil was bad or whether she had simply planted too late. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z When the September winds blew the downy milkweed seeds to new soil, Chup was gone, too. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z From the bottom up, I study the topography—layers of water, moist soil, dry earth, rock. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z His appearance didn’t help, untidy as he was and carrying a soiled shopping bag containing a juicer and a number of hate books. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Like John and his group of Lost Boys, we went to bed hungry again, finding a place to lie down on the rocky red soil of Ethiopia to sleep. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Samuel knelt in the sandy soil, looking at the torn and broken edges of his bit. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z He’s curled up on his side, fast asleep, facing us, arms reaching out and hands curled in the soil. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z During the rest of the year, the climate is drier, and farmers plant and tend their milpas on the alluvial soil. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Because the arms were curved, they turned the earth away from the blade, which both reduced friction and more effectively plowed the soil. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Throughout the Adams presidency, Jefferson and his Republican followers had been insisting that the French Revolution was the American Revolution on European soil and that France was therefore America’s major international ally. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z After the drink, as he wiped his mouth with his soiled shirt-sleeve, I heard him say, amid a rasping cough, as I was walking away: “This water sure smells funny. But it’s crisp and refreshing.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z They were hollow inside, the soil dry underneath. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z She squatted and pushed her fingers deep into the soil, then pulled them out and stuck them back into a different place in the dirt. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z They particularly resented that they, who were native to American soil, were passed over by their supervisors in favor of recently arrived immigrants. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I contend, furthermore, that we have allowed these chemicals to be used with little or no advance investigation of their effect on soil, water, wildlife, and man himself. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Diggers would come and sprinkle a layer of soil over the flesh, but even so it would be eaten by the clawing, hungry creatures that came at night. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Each put on one nice light glove, and carried one soiled one, and all pronounced the effect “quite easy and fine”. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a cool, gray morning, and Baba was squatting next to me, digging the soil and planting the bulbs I handed to him. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Setting the cardboard box down, he carefully began brushing the loose soil away from the toad. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z She climbed slowly back to join him and found him cutting the names of the Gallivespians on the little headstone, and setting it more firmly in the soil. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The very nature of the world of the soil has been largely ignored. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The ash gives the soil a quick shot of nutrients, giving the crop a chance. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z So she picked up one of the strips of paper and read it aloud, first in English: “Do not fight and air your dirty laundry in public. To the victor go the soils.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z With her claws digging into the mountain soil, she braced herself, and started pulling. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The top of this was covered with a thin layer of soil and coarse grass and shaded with young palm trees. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z We analyzed the contents of each soiled diaper as if it might tell us all her secrets. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Well, the idea was to figure out how well things grow in Martian gravity, and see what, if anything, we can do with Martian soil. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Nearly a decade would pass before the United States regained the know-how or the will to launch espionage operations on Russian soil. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z With one hand she lifted Izzy’s jacket from the chair and dusted it, as if it were soiled. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z There was no sea and no sand, no grass nor rocks, no soil, no trees, no sky, no stars. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z Odin and his brothers made the soil from Ymir’s flesh. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z All the Arctic peoples had been thrown into panic, and so had the animals, not only by the fog and the magnetic variations but by unseasonal crackings of ice and stirrings in the soil. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He knew a lot about soil and mud and things like that. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z She opened the washtub cover and threw the gun into the water in which some soiled clothes were soaking. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “But we have a date to go running with a wheelchair and potting soil tomorrow at six.” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z Because of the steep grade, soil erosion from rain and wind whittled down food production year by year. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z From the pile on the floor, it looked as though they’d already soiled the other bedclothes. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z It seems humorous to me sometimes that I fret over soil and weather and such. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Those plants, growing in complex, living soils, produced polyphenols to protect themselves from pests and disease. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z She stood at the foot of the mound of black soil, a thin old woman with white hair bound in a braid that reached her hips, her face a finely drawn map of lines. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Beatriz’s steps match the different beats: a slow tread through the grassless patches of black soil, followed by a faster two-step on the cracked concrete. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z On the dresser, she found a pile of soiled handkerchiefs and a scattering of dirt-crusted fingernail clippings. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z They will dig away the earth from under the bodies of small creatures, such as shrew mice and fallen fledglings, and then lay their eggs on them before covering them with soil. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z As I went in, Mrs. Means came out with her baby, who had not only spit up but had soiled his diaper, I could tell. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z As soiled water sluiced down the table legs, we transferred Yakov to a slotted board attached to the pulley system overhead. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Not only is there water, but the soil in the dambo is deep black and full of nutrients that a little tobacco seedling requires to grow strong. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z “Get me a new plate. One you haven’t soiled with your dirty cloth.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z She was as brown as the very soil itself. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z See look, here, how it ruined my coat and soiled beyond repair a shirt you will never see another one of. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Regular soil is a crazy mix of everything from fine rock fragments to water, air, insects, and even bacteria and fungi. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z The recent rainfall filled the cottage with the scent of damp soil. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Constrained by its punishing climate, poor soil, and lack of protein, these scientists argue, large-scale societies have never existed—can never exist—in the river basin. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z It didn’t take long for William to realize—as he put it to a friend—that he wasn’t suited to “scratching a living out of the soil.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “Good God! No wonder your heart went wonky! There’s a witch’s brew of chemicals in that soil. I want you to promise me never, never to go there again.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z His practice was to implant the little microbiology stations in the Antarctic soil and return about a month later to retrieve them. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z They carried the land itself—Vietnam, the place, the soil—a powdery orange-red dust that covered their boots and fatigues and faces. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z All that they would have had to do to meet the definition of farmers was to carry the stems and remaining attached tubers home and similarly replace them in soil at their camp. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z This is the fact that heptachlor, after a short period in the tissues of animals or plants or in the soil, assumes a considerably more toxic form known as heptachlor epoxide. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Trees, herbage, even the soil—all were unfamiliar. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z His two black laborers walked the rows, touching the tender flowers, fingering the soil and trying to puzzle out the sky. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z She began by shoveling up all the soiled straw and wood shavings and depositing the stinky mess into Papa’s wooden wheelbarrow. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z When the rain stopped, asphalt-baking machines droned over the course, licking flames over the surface to dry the soil. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I stood pretending to admire them while Buddy got a good footing on the rough soil. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Nhamo was unable to find large patches of soil, but she found many small ones. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Mixed in with the sugars are important minerals the grasses have drawn up from the soil. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z “Weapons are not allowed on Roman soil inside the Pomerian Line.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Feathers sits on the ground and scoops soil into a sample pouch. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z You return to find your houses combed spotless of spoiled crumbs, your bedding free of lice, your woodlots cleansed of night soil, your hen coops rid of chicken mites. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z In March 1891 Burnham ordered tests to gauge how well the soil would support the grand palaces then on the architects’ drafting tables. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Then the landing gear sank into the soil, the engines powered down, and all was quiet. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Please God, out of this New England soil such men would forever rise up ready to fight when need came. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z |
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