black-earth

The running pond overgrown with reeds and rushes, the favourite haunt of fussy ducks, among whom one may now and then come across a wary ‘teal’; beyond the pond a garden with avenues of lime-trees, the chief beauty and glory of our black-earth plains, with smothered rows of

A Desperate Character 2006

That village, with its huts and hay-stacks, its green hemp-patches, and gaunt willows, looked from a distance like an island in a boundless sea of ploughed, black-earth fields.

The Jew and other stories 2006

He looked in through the railings where the bushes crowded the black-earth paths.

At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

He looked in through the railings where the bushes crowded the black-earth paths.

At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

Late in the nineteenth century the banks of the Miami River near its mouth were blanketed with extensive shell and black-earth middens, and at least four burial mounds.

American Scene: Much Ado About a Circle 1999

Ante-Steppe and Steppes of the black-earth region.

Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers Various

In the Tobol and Ishim plains of western Siberia are the fertile black-earth regions covering twenty-five million acres.

Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania Jewett Castello Gilson

In ten seconds it came down through the roof of our black-earth sods, and, literally in a moment, we were drenched to the skin and as black as chimney-sweepers.

The Autobiography of Liuetenant-General Sir Harry Smith, Baronet of Aliwal on the Sutlej, G. C. B. 1903

The way home led across black-earth fields that had just been ploughed up.

Hadji Murad 1904

Two men lay behind the spoil banks at each of the main canal, their heads and rifle barrels showing above the black-earth breastworks.

The Plunderer Henry Oyen 1902