1.   Gradually, as they worked, their feet sank into the soft earth and wet mud oozed up between their toes.

2.   He rolled as soon as he hit the soft earth and crashed into the base of a tree.

3.   His hand closed over grass which was instantly torn from the soft earth and his boots were dislodged from their precarious footholds.

4.   I saw myself scooping out handfuls of soft loamy earth.

5.   It pounded the soft earth and gurgled along the gutters to splash with relentless monotony into the tub outside the back door.

6.   She was pointing at a recess scraped in the soft earth and pine needles.

7.   The hooves of the galloping horses had bitten deep into the soft earth.

8.   The wheels got stuck in the soft earth.

9.   Something on the ground caught his eye and he bent down and looked at a small print in the soft earth.

10.   Four or five Italians fell to the soft earth as the stadium rocked.