They were soaked within seconds, and so was the hard-baked ground.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Thorn Birds]

There were planters on the front porch with hard-baked soil and a few dying weeds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life Support] Reference

The track was hard-baked clay, formed in a great oval that skirted the training ground.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lion Of Macedon]

They ran on side by side, in step so their feet slapped in unison on the hard-baked earth.    From Wordnik.com.  [When the Lion Feeds]

The sand merged into hard-baked ground, became cracked and scarred with rock-filled gulleys.    From Wordnik.com.  [Planet of the Damned] Reference

Landing on the hard-baked dirt, he left the road and plunged into the thick weeds and underbrush.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Soulforge]

She stamped her foot, and got angrier-if that was possible-when she made no impression on the hard-baked adobe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Knight Of Ghosts And Shadows]

A narrow road, little more than two wheel ruts and a hard-baked footpath, led in the direction they were going.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Soulforge]

Some sank to the hard-baked clay of the training ground, others wandering to the shade near the Grave of Hector.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lion Of Macedon]

Its endless leagues of hard-baked earth and waterless dunes of sand were the setting of many a grim campfire tale.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conan The Hunter]

As the night deepened she heard the sounds of a walking horse, the slow, rhythmic thudding of hooves on hard-baked earth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lion Of Macedon]

Alara watched her foster daughter scamper away across the hard-baked ground and experienced mingled emotions: pride, and guilt.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Elvenbane]

No doubt with Madame's illusion-spinning creativity reinforcing the natural psychic shield of the dense granite and hard-baked soil.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Golden Torc]

In the summer the yard was hard-baked dirt, cracked into jigsaw patterns, and in the winter it was dark with mud and cold with frost.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blood Men] Reference

Brick is a good name for you, my hard-baked friend.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy Scout Treasure Hunters The Lost Treasure of Buffalo Hollow] Reference

A team of horses tied to a post somewhere in the darkness stamped on the hard-baked ground.    From Wordnik.com.  [Winesburg, Ohio; a group of tales of Ohio small town life] Reference

And he set the example by stepping over the sill on to the hard-baked earth of the floor within.    From Wordnik.com.  [Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill] Reference

Underfoot was hard-baked earth, covered by irregular patches of shale that tinkled when stepped on.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Leopard Woman] Reference

The sun had grown red and huge when at last in the hard-baked dirt she discovered fresh hoof-prints.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heart of the Sunset] Reference

A warm wind blew relentlessly over the hard-baked sand - just the kind of climate that the Desertec boss likes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Earth Times Online Newspaper] Reference

I do not know how many miles we went down-stream, leaving no trail in the shallow water or along its hard-baked edges.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vanguards of the Plains] Reference

The ordinary houses of Babylonia were constructed of reeds, while the temples and palaces were built of hard-baked clay.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria] Reference

I found myself standing on an extent of hard-baked earth, while the glittering pool I had hoped to reach had disappeared.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Wilds of Africa] Reference

Older than the oldest book, older than the oldest recorded memory of man, on the Rocks of Language, on the hard-baked clay of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dreams] Reference

When the time has come, the workmen gather about the furnace, and with a long bar they drill into the hard-baked clay of the tapping hole.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diggers in the Earth] Reference

"hard-baked" into the online video distribution model.    From Wordnik.com.  [B&C - Advertising News] Reference

"Apple Does Not Comment On Rumours Or Speculation" barrier that's hard-baked into executives behind the scenes in Cupertino.    From Wordnik.com.  [APC] Reference

Those that are red are hard-baked, and are almost as bad as the glazed abominations, which once cost me some of my choice favorites. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Nature's Serial Story] Reference

It is hard-baked bread.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Days and Nights on the Battle-Field] Reference

The clay in hard-baked fire along the hill.    From Wordnik.com.  [Georgian Poetry 1918-19] Reference

The clay is pinkish, well silted, and hard-baked.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archaeologia, or, Miscellaneous tracts relating to antiquity [microform]] Reference