loam
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That’s ancient history to most of us, making it fertile loam for speculative interpretation.
From Salon ● Jun. 21, 2026
Stories multiply like toadstools in forest loam in the fiction of Thomas Pynchon, America’s most devout skeptic of the narrative urge, yet also one of its greatest exponents.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025
The result, if we want to get really geeky, is a mix of clay, pure sand and sandy loam.
From BBC ● Nov. 21, 2024
That’s because, contrary to the shibboleth, the good isn’t the enemy of the great—it’s the loam of the great.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 9, 2023
The entire Columbian Guard seemed to be present, their pale blue uniforms standing out like crocuses against black loam.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
Try to find the proportion of vegetable matter in each of the following: loams from various sources, sand, clay, gravel.
From Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study by Ontario. Ministry of Education
Now the Allier divides it; and the astonished cultivator digs into virgin strata of fertile loams, the lowest depths of which have never yet been revealed.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 by Various
The pioneers of empire, for all time, Are gold-dust, from the placers of our homes— The surface croppings from a nation's prime, The mellow acre of the richest loams.
From Montezuma An Epic on the Origin and Fate of the Aztec Nation by Hiram Hoyt Richmond
The cherry likes a deep, moderately rich loam, whereas we are growing it mostly on sandy loams of a granitic origin.
From Fruits of Queensland by Albert H. Benson
Soil.—The soils of the lowlands are prevailing sandy loams, with a covering of rich mould.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" by Various
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