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Definition
a rich soil consisting of a mixture of sand and clay and decaying organic materials
- Within the remote depths of his constitution, so gentle and affectionate as he was in general, there lay hidden a hard logical deposit, like a vein of metal in a soft loam, which turned the edge of everything that attempted to traverse it.5 — The Woman Pays (18% in)
- The shovelfuls of loam, black as jet, brought there by the river when it was as wide as the whole valley, were an essence of soils, pounded champaigns of the past, steeped, refined, and subtilized to extraordinary richness, out of which came all the fertility of the mead, and of the cattle grazing there.4 — The Consequence (56% in)
- In time she reached the edge of the vast escarpment below which stretched the loamy Vale of Blackmoor, now lying misty and still in the dawn.5 — The Woman Pays (90% in)
There are no more uses of "loam" in Tess of the d'Urbervilles.
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