Langdon was relieved to feel the final rung give way to the spongy earth at the bottom.
They moved in darkness, silently, on damp, spongy earth.
Suddenly Tom realized they were both ankle-deep in the wet, spongy earth.
She kicked Bounder again, apologizing silently for asking so much of him on the treacherous, spongy earth.
A set of footprints in the soft, spongy earth caught her attention.
Katherine sinks to her knees on the spongy earth.
The image floated ahead of the group and led them to a stand of trees growing in moist, spongy earth.
Damp salt air from the Sound made the patch of earth soft and spongy.
In the soft, spongy earth below he saw the confused imprints of shoes.
They studied a single footprint pressed into spongy earth that had softened during the height of a warm season.