Sentence examples for handful of soil from inspiring English sources

"There he famously poured a handful of soil into the hands of Gurindji man Vincent Lingiari to symbolically mark the handing back of Wave Hill station to the Gurindji people".

As a Sanskrit text written in about 1500BC noted: "Upon this handful of soil our survival depends.

He hunkered down on his shins to grab a handful of soil, grey from the ash of the cooking fire.

Kunzru's hero marvels at those anchored by ancestral land, "people who can know themselves by kneeling down and picking up a handful of soil".

Come spring, I'll turn it over, wait a month for that green matter to start decomposing -- and grab another handful of soil.

"This field was just sand a few years ago, and now look at the worm castings," he said, cradling a handful of soil scooped from under a cabernet sauvignon vine.

You dropped two handfuls of soil.

In another snub to the old way, the women -- and not the men, as custom dictated -- stepped up to throw the first handfuls of soil over Ms. Allak's coffin.

In the 30th day of this period, the plants thrived well and earthworms could be found alive after scooping up handfuls of soil.

On the morning of the final day, people were allowed to collect handfuls of soil to take home, in paper cups and improvised bags.

In addition to testing fingers, food, and drinking water of infants, three infants actively ingested 11.3 ± 9.2 (mean ± SD) handfuls of soil and two ingested chicken feces 2 ± 1.4 times in 6 hours.