Sentence examples for stamp of soil from inspiring English sources

These are writers who spend their imaginative energy on the "postage stamp" of soil beneath their feet; writers who know, in other words, of what they speak.

Harder to swallow is Rhoda's attachment to her flat, flood-prone, bug-infested postage stamp of soil, especially considering the great sense it would make for her and Henry to "get the hell out of" postwar Scuffletown once there's a price on Henry's head.

And, by forsaking Yale to study his own native postage stamp of soil, Mr Ferris has won a surprising national eminence.This month, the hundredth anniversary of Faulkner's birth, the Senate is likely to confirm Mr Ferris as head of the National Endowment for the Humanities, which hands out grants for cultural and historical endeavours.

Beyond that, Robinson expertly brings his little postage stamp of native soil to life.

But in 1925, when he was 28 years old, he returned to Oxford to write about his "postage stamp of native soil"; and between that year and his death in 1962 he wrote 16 books and innumerable stories about a mythical Mississippi county called Yoknapatawpha.

Faulkner famously spoke of the moment when he "discovered that my own little postage stamp of native soil was worth writing about and that I would never live long enough to exhaust it," but Anne Frank's diary is everyone's native soil, and it has been so thoroughly tilled at this point — in dozens of biographies, memoirs, and sequels — that almost nothing fresh can grow.

You dropped two handfuls of soil.

Finally, a fascinating history of soil.

The preparation of soil survey reports, 1970.

Legislative principles of soil conservation, 1971.

Choose a flat, available area of soil.