Subsoil

Her anthology of American Gothic Tales is wide-ranging and filled with interesting choices I'm particularly fond of Nicholson Baker's "Subsoil".

Archive 2004-10-01 2004

"Love from Above / Delivers Persephone / to the Subsoil" brings one back to the Narcissus-like episode in "Botanica" where dreamer and reflection are embodied by a reposing nymph on a raked mirror silken Sara Nachbauer.

A Pruned Garden of Delights Robert Greskovic 2011

Subsoil appeared as orange-yellow, while the latrine itself was much darker.

2008 Field Report 1 « Interactive Dig Johnson's Island – Unlocking a Civil War Prison 2008

Proclamation No. 2667, Policy of the United States with Respect to the Natural Resources of the Subsoil and Sea Bed of the Continental Shelf, 3 C.F.R. §67 (1943-1948).

Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act, United States 2007

Farmer Subsoil would take her thither in his tax-cart.

Barchester Towers 2004

At any rate Mrs. Quiverful was beginning to be very impatient and was thinking that Farmer Subsoil would be tired of waiting for her when Mrs. Proudie returned.

Barchester Towers 2004

= Subsoil =, that part of the soil which lies beneath the soil that is worked with the tillage tools.

The First Book of Farming Charles Landon Goodrich

Subsoil water is liable to infiltration of solid and liquid wastes emanating from the human system, from leaky drains, sewers, or cesspools, stables, or farmyards; and even deep well water may become contaminated by reason of defects in the construction of the well.

The Home Medical Library, Volume V (of VI) Kenelm Winslow

Subsoil drainage is not a modern discovery, as it was used in many ancient lands, and was extensively employed in ancient Rome, the valleys and suburbs of which would have been uninhabitable but for the draining of the marshes by the so-called "_cloacæ_" or drains, which lowered the ground-water level of the low parts of the city and made them fit to build upon.

The Home Medical Library, Volume V (of VI) Kenelm Winslow

Subsoil, conditions favourable for nitrification in, 181.

Manures and the principles of manuring Charles Morton Aikman