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    We are living in a time when flowers are trying to live on flowers, instead of growing on good rain and black loam.  (source)
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    I scoop up a handful and breathe in the loamy smell.†  (source)
    loamy = rich
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    And even though it was still cool, there was an expectancy that Esperanza could smell, a rich loamy odor that promised spring.†  (source)
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    This has included scrubbing down my body with a gritty loam that has removed not only dirt but at least three layers of skin, turning my nails into uniform shapes, and primarily, ridding my body of hair.†  (source)
    loam = rich soil
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    He can feel heat and humidity rising from the loamy earth.†  (source)
    loamy = rich
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    He remembered yet the East India Tea House at the Fair, the sandalwood, the turbans, and the robes, the cool interior and the smell of India tea; and he had felt now the nostalgic thrill of dew-wet mornings in Spring, the cherry scent, the cool clarion earth, the wet loaminess of the garden, the pungent breakfast smells and the floating snow of blossoms.†  (source)
    loaminess = of soil:  the quality of richness
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    He lay with his forehead pressed to the ground, the scent of iron and loam filling his nostrils, and he clutched the dirt and poured it out of his hands.†  (source)
    loam = rich soil
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    Arid each night, creeping a little closer to the tent, inching his way over the woodland blanket of decaying leaves and moist loamy soil until his shadow rose in the narrow opening of the tent and fell over her, and the tent was filled with her smell, and there would be the sleeping girl clutching the teddy bear and the hunter holding his gun, one dreaming of the life that was taken from her, the other thinking of the life he'd take.†  (source)
    loamy = rich
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    From the loam of Jutta's memory rises a sentence: What I want to write about today is the sea.†  (source)
    loam = rich soil
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    It was like one of those fast-motion videos of plants blooming, except she seemed to be reeling the flowers up from their loamy bed by invisible strings.†  (source)
    loamy = rich
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    The air turned damp, perfumed with loam and fresh earth, rotting leaves and new growth.†  (source)
    loam = rich soil
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    Mulch followed a loamy vein through a volcanic fold in the rock.†  (source)
    loamy = rich
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    I dug my nails into the loam and shot myself forward.†  (source)
    loam = rich soil
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