After a mile or two which took an hour to cover they found the way blocked by sodden ground.
Striding across sodden ground, he stopped to examine traces that interested him.
But on the sodden ground it was almost impossible to move quietly.
Several plants ruptured and collapsed, already beginning to decay into the sodden ground.
He picked up a dead stick and prepared to draw a diagram on the sodden ground.
There, lying on the sodden ground, was a wounded soldier crying for his mother.
He snorted with sudden contempt, threw it onto the sodden ground.
Mist rose up around us from the sodden ground.
One could picture the dead body lying wrapped in it on the sodden ground under a leafless bush.
For ten minutes, fifteen, he clawed his way over the sodden ground.