They left a small trail of slowly settling dust in their wake, and their thickly insulated boots crunched over the dry, crumbly soil.

There might have been no burning, all signs of fire were gone, absorbed by that soft brown crumbly soil, drawn under and hidden for ever.

"The path of dry and crumbly soil!"

Workmen had initially found the fossilized bones in a pit of marl, a crumbly soil sold throughout the 1800's as fertilizer.

Nightmare of a few moments before . . . stuck and spinning, sinking down in the loose, crumbly soil.

I leaned over his sketch, puzzling over the lines in the crumbly soil.

Both were dragged to the pit, thrown in, and covered with the crumbly grey soil the 'steader had tilled in life.'

The substrate is basaltic bedrock overlain by dry, crumbly red-brown soil.

Farther south, along the esplanade, he reached down and dug up a handful of the dark brown, crumbly soil that lay beneath the caked ash.

Then he was yanked back and fell on his back, feet scrambling over the loose, crumbly dry soil, struggling to anchor himself.