The image of my friend exiled in the Caucasus slowly appeared through the rain and sodden earth.
One by one they crumpled before her, falling to the sodden earth and melting away.
He was standing beside her, as she sliced in the shovel, heaved at the sodden earth.
There was a strong smell of sodden earth and wet leaves.
Or perhaps he wouldn't care that his farmers' fields would be flooded, the crops rotting in the sodden earth.
Inevitability came in grunts and the sound, when Joe hit, of a stake being driven into sodden earth.
He gestured to a flat of sodden earth beside him in the firelight.
She took her eyes off it, knowing when she looked again it would have been received into the sodden earth.
You couldn't see much except sodden earth, twisted roots, rocks and shadows.
If she could only reach the pistol before six feet of sodden earth covered her.