earth-fall

Another, outstretched on the edge of the heap, has thrown his hand across our path; and in this place where there no traffic except by night -- for the trench is blocked just there by the earth-fall and inaccessible by day -- every one treads on that hand.

Under Fire: the story of a squad Henri Barbusse 1904

The daylight that is trickling through at the end, drop by drop, comes in by an earth-fall.

Under Fire: the story of a squad Henri Barbusse 1904

I heard him walking the room with troubled steps; and every step sounded as mournful to me as the earth-fall on the coffin-lid.

Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author Caroline Lee Hentz 1828