Within it, oaks and loblolly pines grew well apart from one another on ground that was bare dirt, pine needles, and leaves.
When Faust, a historian herself, stopped by, she chatted with instructors and students, viewed their finds, and even sifted a bucket of fresh dirt from one of the plots.
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As a 22-year-old dog handler, Mr. Watson slept in the dirt just feet from one of the bomb craters the day after the blast.
As New York City eased its way into dawn one summer Saturday, Augustin Juarez kneeled in the dirt and plucked fat fruit from one of 600 tomato vines.
The noise of their tiny wings beating furiously as they flit from one flower to the next sounds like the sputtering engine of a distant dirt bike.
From one end of the cylinder, a tendril extends into the mass of stones and dirt, like a fast-climbing vine.
To visit one, I flew from Mumbai to Aurangabad, took a three-hour bus ride, then walked a long time on dirt so dry it cracked.
Conversely, where the new road diverts traffic from one road to another, those living in the area with reduced traffic are likely to experience fewer disturbances from noise, vibrations, fumes and dirt.
Shop owners in the Turkish border towns peddle two types of cigarettes: cheap ones from Turkey and dirt cheap ones from Syria.
