The practice ground was of hard-packed clay, and relatively free of dust.
If the ground is hard-packed clay that does not become soggy in spring or after heavy rains, you may not need a border.
There is no real top soil, just hard-packed, concretelike clay.
The carter looks down at the hard-packed damp clay.
Ryder let them get half-way across, then fired into the hard-packed clay in front of the leaders.
He looked down at the hard-packed clay, then at the empty bench.
She had been gone perhaps an hour when he heard her light footfalls on the hard-packed clay of the clearing.
Then he died there on the hard-packed clay, his blood covering his shirt and the ground.
It was created from hard-packed yellow clay with small specs of charcoal inside.
They turn right, toward the Northern Ocean, which lies beyond the single line of rolling hills, and down the hard-packed clay.