clodded

Sometimes it takes a little boy snarling in a dirt-clodded suit to help you realize how to recognize love and joy again in your life.

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Sometimes in summer as the long day drew toward evening and we knew we should be starting home to the farm, we'd both lie face down on the hillside and push our faces right into the harsh dry grass and the hard clodded dirt, breathing in the infinitely complex smell, hay-sweet and soil-bitter, of the warm summer earth, our earth.

'Lavinia' 2008

"It does a fellow good to feel a little frisky," sang, or rather shouted, a little Corporal, whom we have met before in these pages, as he made ridiculous efforts to infuse life into heels clodded with mud.

Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac William H. Armstrong

Red Creek baked in a smother of dusty heat, the trees in the dry orchards, beside the dry roads, dropped circles of hot shadow on the clodded, rough earth.

Sisters Kathleen Thompson Norris 1923

Mr. Lee, I could find in any clodded trifle the outlets of sky my yearning mind covets: hay fever would lead me by prismatic omissions and plunging ellipses of thought to the vaster spirals and eddies of all-viewing Mind.

Shandygaff Christopher Morley 1923

The clodded earth goes up in sweet-breath'd flowers;

Love 1919

‘So, sir, she grippit him, and clodded him like a stane from the sling over the craigs of Warroch-head, where he was found that evening—but what became of the babe, frankly I cannot say.

Chapter XI 1917

You might have got off without thon bloody clout on the top of your head if ye'd just clodded stones and then run like the rest of them.

The Northern Iron George A. Birmingham 1907

She had discovered that, if every night she could hunt, run down, and kill one sheep, life might again become worth living, and the coarse-clodded grave in the little lonely cemetery might be forgotten.

The Watchers of the Trails A Book of Animal Life Charles George Douglas Roberts 1901

Then he staned the cats that cam 'rinnin' to beg for milk an 'cheese -- cats that never war clodded afore.

Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 1887