The lady thumped her cane to the hard-packed road. From Wordnik.com. [Hero Come Back]
She landed the Cobra on the hard-packed desert floor. From Wordnik.com. [A Man Alone]
The hard-packed snow creaked under my feet as I walked. From Wordnik.com. [Flash Before Your Eyes] Reference
Now the streets, most hard-packed dirt, were thronged with people. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of Chaos]
The horses 'hooves splashed through puddles on the hard-packed dirt. From Wordnik.com. [The Dragon Reborn]
"This sawdust is mighty hard-packed, and feet deep," interrupted Tom. From Wordnik.com. [Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp or, the Old Lumberman's Secret] Reference
Loose, soft snow (as opposed to hard-packed snow) makes it harder to travel. From Wordnik.com. [Climate change impacts on Canadian Western Arctic~ the Inuvialuit of Sachs Harbour] Reference
It allows him to cover every inch of the hard-packed earth that is his yard. From Wordnik.com. [The Corners] Reference
The floor of the temple was hard-packed earth, dry and crumbling in patches. From Wordnik.com. [Kushiel's Avatar]
Her dainty feet barely made an impression on the hard-packed sand as she walked. From Wordnik.com. [The Lightkeeper]
Not far from the town center, a satellite-dish antenna sits on hard-packed earth. From Wordnik.com. [A GLOBAL GAP] Reference
In rocky or hard-packed clay soil, rock foundation walls need only be 30 cm. deep. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 5] Reference
Except during a melt season, the snow is usually dry, wind-blown, and hard-packed. From Wordnik.com. [Sea ice] Reference
Taloned feet scratched at hard-packed snow, broken chains were clinking and tangling. From Wordnik.com. [Science Fiction Hall of Fame]
There was only dim light, but enough to see the cold, hard-packed dirt he was lying on. From Wordnik.com. [The Plains of Passage]
Then, as Bert found himself on smooth, hard-packed snow, he steered as straight as he could. From Wordnik.com. [The Bobbsey Twins at School] Reference
Pounded my fists on the hard-packed earth and cursed the man who had forced me to cower here. From Wordnik.com. [Till the Butchers Cut Him Down]
A moment later, the wild scramble of her pinto's hoofs echoed back to them from the hard-packed road. From Wordnik.com. [The Fifth Ace] Reference
We use mattocks to break up the loam, shovels to scoop it out, except for the hard-packed sod on top. From Wordnik.com. [The Mammoth Hunters]
Kneeling, I picked up a stick and dug at the ground, but the hard-packed dirt snapped the stick in two. From Wordnik.com. [The Trouble with Witches]
Leaving the street of hard-packed dirt, Philip went under an arch into a square courtyard, open to the sky. From Wordnik.com. [Men Called Him Master] Reference
There were two four-seated sleighs, for there was a hard-packed white track into the woods toward Triton Lake. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding on Cliff Island Or, The Old Hunter's Treasure Box] Reference
No matter how hard it fell, it never turned the hard-packed road to mud, but when it rained there was no dust. From Wordnik.com. [The Eye of the World]
Redmond silently followed him and together the two men stepped out into the crisply-crunching hard-packed snow. From Wordnik.com. [The Luck of the Mounted A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police] Reference
Between it and the sidewalk in a narrow strip of hard-packed dirt grew a scraggly, uncared-for, foot-high hedge. From Wordnik.com. [Time and Again]
But the dirt floor still seemed hard-packed and covered with no more than the expected rubble of soil and leaves. From Wordnik.com. [Truly]
The streets still had a look of new-turned earth, not the hard-packed surface that came from generations of feet. From Wordnik.com. [The Fires of Heaven]
The revolver dropped to the hard-packed snow of the trail, and Barclay saw the ice-ax shift into defensive position. From Wordnik.com. [Science Fiction Hall of Fame]
Peace listened to the sound of their footsteps crunching through the hard-packed snow, until the last echo died away. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of Gold] Reference
And they heard clearly the sharp clang of a horse's hoofs on the hard-packed snow, loud at first, but fading rapidly away. From Wordnik.com. [Riders of the Silences] Reference
Daoud jerked the reins of his horse, and the hooves no longer rang on old Roman paving stones but thudded on hard-packed dirt. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: Land of the Infidel] Reference
Eight hundred feet below, camel caravans driven by servitors and followed by voynix padded in on the hard-packed Gobi Highway. From Wordnik.com. [Ilium]
The Harley bounced over a hummock of hard-packed clay and stone, and the bike came down hard, Rourke's jaw set against the impact. From Wordnik.com. [The Doomsayer]
Think what the squares would look like if they were nothing but hard-packed dirt instead of grass and azaleas and beautiful landscaping. From Wordnik.com. [Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil]
Southeast of the entrance was a fence made of seven skulls of mammoths plus other bones, filled in with hard-packed clay to make it solid. From Wordnik.com. [The Mammoth Hunters]
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