A sudden heavy downpour will run right off hard-packed soil that in some cases is dry four feet down.

It was an unmemorable journey and a miserable one, for the rains broke, washing across the hard-packed red soil.

It grew out of bare, hard-packed soil.

Tough, brittle weeds grew in the hard-packed soil at the bottoms of the giant molehills.

He also had to keep the scooter on the hard-packed soil of the track.

All night they had been trudging along the hard-packed soil where the jungle met the rocky escarpment of the cliffs.

The legionaries took their first step on the hard-packed soil.

But I hit hard-packed soil and knew the grave hadn't been opened.

The herb was strewn across floors to cover the smell of the hard-packed soil.

She laid her cheek against the hard-packed soil of the den floor and let herself drift.