Rain dark as blood was failing at a steep angle, scourging the spongy soil, kicking up tiny fountains of earth.

He knelt down, dug in the spongy soil for a marc-beetle nest.

They evolved carnivorous habits because of the scarce root food in the spongy soil.

Wallace, on his knees, picked feebly at the spongy soil.

He looked to his own bloody hands and arms, felt a line of blood running down his chin to drip onto the spongy soil.

They'd dug the grave in the spongy soil.

Reaching the swampbush, the lizard pulled itself up on the spongy soil and shouldered through the underbrush.

He too felt the spongy soil drawing him downwards.

To the eye it was concrete set with iridescent particles, but to the feet it was damp, spongy soil.